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Title: Funk: The Music, the People, and the Rhythm of the One by Rickey Vincent, George Clinton, Ricky Vincent ISBN: 0312134991 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: May, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6
Rating: 3
Summary: Too positive?
Comment: The idea of a whole book about Funk is a thrill. But somehow, Vincent just seems to like EVERYTHING a little too much. He's so enthusiastic about everything that it's hard to get a good idea of which music I really need to hear and what I can do without. Still, you can't dock someone too hard for being positive...
Rating: 5
Summary: I Am Now A Well Educated Lover Of FUNK !!!
Comment: I recieved this book as a gift from my Fiancee, who is a FUNK musician. Many times he explained to me what FUNK is and how it began. My interest in FUNK music began to peak and I wanted to know more. I read the entire book in a 6 hour flight from the east coast to the west coast. The book was so informative I couldn't put it down. Prior to my reading this book I had no idea of the indepth history FUNK and the magnitude of its impact on the music industry. If anyone wants to know and understand the history of FUNK; I refer to this book as the "BIBLE OF FUNK". I am now a well educated lover of FUNK!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Can't Barely Handle This Much Funk!
Comment: First, I propose a small title change for this book. It should be called "THE Funk". The word "funk" only refers to a musical genre. But THE Funk entails the whole lifestyle, attitude, and philosophy that go with the music. And that's what this book is about.
Rickey Vincent provides all the info you could possibly dig on the origins, artists, and influence behind the funk bomb that has been shaking the Earth since the 60's. You get the deep, ancient funk origins in jazz, soul, R&B, and even rockers like Hendrix and Santana. As should be expected, there's a ton of props for the musicians who invented funk, especially the Godfather, my main man James Brown; not to mention the old-school master, Sly Stone. Once the funk really took off in the 70's, Vincent provides top coverage of the entire phenomenon, with props for big men like the Isley Brothers, Ohio Players, Kool & the Gang, and Earth Wind & Fire; and unearths long-lost funkateeers like Slave and Zapp, who are ripe for rediscovery. But where would we be without P-Funk? No problem, as Vincent gives us an entire section on the most important and influential funk mob of all time, George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic thang. The story continues into the present with coverage of funk that survived underground in the 80's, and then rocked the world again in the 90's. Most interesting is Vincent's coverage of funk's humungous influence on the hip-hop nation, as well as a whole branch of rock-n-roll (populated by bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers and Primus).
When funk history gets ragged in the late 70's and early 80's, Vincent gets carried away in his endless condemnation of disco (you don't really need to say how much disco reeked), as well as the other new forms of dance music that temporarily buried the funk. But not to worry, because in the 90's the funk re-emerged triumphantly and in top booty-shakin' form. And get a load of the appendix, "Essential Funk Recordings," in which Vincent provides a gargantuan list of classic funk albums that will keep you on a buying spree for the rest of your life.
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Title: Funk (Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion Series) by Dave Thompson ISBN: 0879306297 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 30 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History (For the Record) by Joel Selvin, Dave Marsh ISBN: 0380793776 Publisher: Avon Books (Pap Trd) Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: George Clinton and P-Funk: An Oral History (For the Record) by David Mills, Dave Marsh, Aris Wilson ISBN: 0380793784 Publisher: Avon Books (Pap Trd) Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title:George Clinton with Parliament Funkadelic: The Mothership Connection ASIN: B00005UM2L Publisher: Pioneer Entertainmen Pub. Date: 22 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.98 |
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Title: Give the Drummers Some!: The Great Drummers of R&B, Funk & Soul by Jim Payne, Harry Weinger ISBN: 157623603X Publisher: Warner Brothers Publications Pub. Date: 25 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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