Vol. 52 No. 4 (2013)

Published December 3, 2013
The Funk Issue

Articles

AmsJ Editors
c, 1-6, 259-260
Front Matter
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Tony Bolden
7-8
Editor's Introduction
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Tony Bolden
9-34
Groove Theory: A Vamp on the Epistemology of Funk
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Cheryl Keyes
35-55
“She Was Too Black for Rock and Too Hard for Soul”: (Re)discovering the Musical Career of Betty Mabry Davis
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Nikki Greene
57-76
The Feminist Funk Power of Betty Davis and Renee Stout
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Francesca Royster
77-98
Labelle: Funk, Feminism and the politics of Flight and Fight
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Alex Stewart
99-118
Make it Funky: Fela Kuti, James Brown and the Invention of Afrobeat
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Scot Brown
119-124
The Blues/Funk Futurism of Roger Troutman
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Steven Pond
125-140
"Chameleon" Meets Soul Train: Herbie, James, Michael, Damita Jo, and Jazz-Funk
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Amy Wright
141-169
Exploring the Funkadelic Aesthetic: Intertextuality and Cosmic Philosophizing in Funkadelic’s Album Covers and Liner Notes
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Aldon Nielsen
171-179
Belief in Lyric
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Tammy Kernodle
181-204
Diggin’ You Like Those Ol’ Soul Records: Meshell Ndegeocello and the Expanding Definition of Funk in Post Soul America
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Howard Rambsy
205-216
Beyond Keeping it Real: OutKast, the Funk Connection, and Afrofuturism
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Daylanne English, Alvin Kim
217-230
Now We Want Our Funk Cut: Janelle Monáe's Neo-Afrofuturism
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Poetry & Visual Art

DaMaris Hill
231
Grace (for Be'la Dona)
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Glenn North
232-233
The Seed of Starchild
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Tracie Morris
234
Untitled
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Thomas Sayers Ellis
235-244
Crank Shaped Notes
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Duriel E. Harris
245-247
Danger, Live Feed
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avery r. young
248-252
NOTESOFASOULFULSON
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Krista Franklin
253
Oshun as Ohio Player(s)
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Harold Smith
254-257
Artwork by Harold Smith
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Book Reviews

AmsJ Editors
261
Back Matter
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