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This book explores how funk emerged in the mid-1960s at the very apex of the civil rights movement and shows how this music mirrored the broader changes taking place within the African-American community at a crucial political time and continues to this day to underpin remix culture. It traces the extent of the Brown legacy, musically, culturally and otherwise articulating decisive links between Brown's work and the DJ culture that embraced it so emphatically that Brown is now considered to be the most widely sampled African-American recording artist in history; indeed, we seem to have reached a point where many of Brown's refrains - the screams, the horn stabs, the "funky drummer" breakbeats - have been sampled so often as to have seemingly become part of the public domain. Traversing the past forty years of popular music, the book explores how the ubiquitous presence of Brown's groove, the affective and transformative capacities of a grunt or a well-timed "Good God" or punctuating scream take over where language fails and compel even the most sedate listener to take to the floor.

Book details

Book category Books in English The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: James Brown
• Author: John Scannell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9781845537432
• ISBN: 1845537432
• ID: 04450094
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Weight: 230 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 139 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2012

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