Black Feminist Funk

Reiland Rabaka provides an alternative history of funk since the mid-1960s, that uncovers the epoch that funk women influenced and were influenced by while wrestling with issues revolving around race, gender, sexuality, and class simultaneously in the American music industry and in American society.

Reiland Rabaka is Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Founder and Director of the Center for African & African American Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Introduction to Black Feminist Funk 1. The Black Women's Liberation Movement and Black Political Feminism 2. The Black Feminist Funk Movement and Black Musical Feminisn 3. "We Were a Musical Movement": Labelle's Embryonic Black Feminist Funk Rock and the Emergence of the Black Feminist Funk Movement 4. "I've Always Seen Myself as a Healer, with My Songs, With My Singing": Chaka Khan's Soulful Sensual Therapeutic Funk and the Black Feminist Funk Movement 5. "The Music is Physical and It's About Sex": Betty Davis's Ultra-Erotic Funk Rock, the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s, and the Black Feminist Funk Movement Conclusion-Black Feminist Neo-Funk