The Funk Movement

Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed, and continues to influence contemporary Black popular music and Black popular culture, especially rap music and the Hip Hop Movement.

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

About the Author Acknowledgments Introduction to Funk Music and the Funk Movement 1. "Black Is Beautiful": The Black Power Movement, the Black Arts Movement, and the Black Aesthetic 2. Pre-Funk-The Prelude to Funk: Hard Bop Jazz and the Cultural Roots of Funk Music and the Funk Movement 3. "Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud": James Brown and the Foundations of Funk 4. "There's A Riot Goin' On": Sly and the Family Stone's Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Soul, and Invention of Psychedelic Funk 5. "One Nation under a Groove": George Clinton, Parliament/Funkadelic, Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Soul, and Psychedelic Funk 6. "The Personal Is Political": The Black Women's Liberation Movement 7. "I'm Every Woman": Chaka Khan, Jazzy Soulful Sensual Funk, and the Black Feminist Funk Movement 8. "Nasty Gal": Betty Davis, Erotic Funk Rock, and the Black Feminist Funk Movement 9. P-Funk to G-Funk: From Funk Music and the Funk Movement to Rap Music and the Hip Hop Movement Index