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Nelson George: Finding the FUNK
Nelson George: Finding the Funk Pt. 1
Funkadelic’s classic 1970 track “Free Your Mind and You... Follow” has come to serve as a dualistic clarion call for funk itself, but encomiums to the form tend to focus on the booty side: the essentialist rhythmic force funk drew from jazz and soul and bequeathed to hip hop as a wealth of sampledelic riffs. The music documentary Finding the Funk returns to the first part of the equation, exploring the mind of funk as it developed from New Orleans second line and “funky jazz” progenitors like pianist Horace Silver through James Brown’s formative funkin’ on the one and the disparate but danceable explorations of Sly Stone, George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Prince. No guide is better equipped to navigate this journey than writer and filmmaker Nelson George, a preeminent chronicler of black music and popular culture. A former Billboard editor and Village Voice columnist, George’s books include the Motown history Where Did Our Love Go?, Hip Hop America, Post-Soul Nation, the memoir City Kid, and 1988′s The Death of Rhythm & Blues, which provocatively examined the assimilation and dilution of black music under the guise of integration and “crossover.” Since the mid-’80s, when he helped bankroll fellow Brooklynite Spike Lee’s debut She’s Gotta Have It, George has been active as a movie and TV producer, director, and writer, with dozens of
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sounds interesting. any information on screening dates/locales? | |
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Gotta check it out. | |
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Vimeo TRAILER [Edited 5/3/13 11:50am] "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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See, guys, there's more to life than just Prince. All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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I recently watched Nelson's George's documentary titled 'Brooklyn Boheme'. Can't wait to see this next one of his. Finally, someone realizing that funk and soul is missing from music today. and recognizing the sounds of musicians/artists of the past that knew how to bring it. I'm still wondering "'Where is the funk in music today?"
I can't stand that electronica pop and rhythmless pop crap, and manufactured soul from a cereal box, they call music on the radio today, sounding like jumbled noise. There are some very good independent musicians/artists that the music industry ignores, and that's too bad. There is nothing revolutionizing about music today, like the various sounds they had in the 60s/70s/80s, and even part of the 90s. Music from those eras were almost like a movement of some sort, I kind of feel like funk/soul/r&b is disrespected, (as well as many of the musicians who play that form of music) by the music industry and among some music listeners, while pop and rock music--and musicians who play that form of music, seem to always be placed on a 'plateau' or given some elite status of some sort, but somehow that doesn't seem to surprise me. Nothing's changed that much in the music industry in that respect, just a different time period. [Edited 5/3/13 11:54am] | |
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MUST...WATCH...THIS!!!!!
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Thanks. I just found a location in my community to where it will be showing, but they have no showtimes listed yet. I know sometimes documentaries can be purchased on cable, if they hooked up with cable, for people to pay and watch. I'm going to check to see if that will happen. | |
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You're welcome. That's sounds like a good idea! | |
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(Bolded part) Just those names alone, brings back some good music memories! | |
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I need to see this | |
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I can't wait to see this but, I sure am getting tired of seeing Questlove playing the role of the "All Knowing Saviour of Black Music history".. Enough already! [Edited 5/4/13 13:11pm] | |
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AMEN!! If Questlove spent more time getting the Roots to record more and producing a song that could further the group beyond backrap aficionados, The Roots wouldn't be the house band for Fallon. They would be household names. There's no point in even being a fan of The Roots because he operates more as a music critic and blogger more than anything else. I appreciate his fandom, but come the fuck on! Questlove is going to become the musician version of Ke$ha and break into artists houses. 3121 #1 THIS YEAR | |
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