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Author: Thomas Hine Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1429924152 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 459
Book Description
In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond America's reach. Then the seventies arrived-bringing oil shocks and gas lines, the disgrace and resignation of a president, defeat in Vietnam, terrorism at the 1972 Munich Olympics, urban squalor, bizarre crimes, high prices, and a bad economy. The country fell into a great funk. But when things fall apart, you can take the fragments and make something fresh. Avocado kitchens and Earth Shoes may have been ugly, but they signaled new modes of seeing and being. The first generation to see Earth from space found ways to make life's everyday routines-eating, keeping warm, taking out the trash-meaningful, both personally and globally. And many decided to reinvent themselves. In Populuxe, a "textbook of consumerism in the Push Button Age" (Alan J. Adler, Los Angeles Times), Thomas Hine scrutinized the looks and life of the 1950s and 1960s, revealing the hopes and fears expressed in that era's design. In the same way, The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies maps a complex era by looking at its ideas, feelings, sex, fashions, textures, gestures, colors, demographic forces, artistic expressions, and other phenomena that shaped our lives. Hine gets into the shoes and heads of those who experienced the seventies-exploring their homes, feeling the beat of their music, and scanning the ads that incited their desires. But The Great Funk is more than a lavish catalogue of seventies culture: it's a smart, informed, lively look at the "Me decade" through the eyes of the man House & Garden called "America's sharpest design critic."
Author: Thomas Hine Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1429924152 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 459
Book Description
In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond America's reach. Then the seventies arrived-bringing oil shocks and gas lines, the disgrace and resignation of a president, defeat in Vietnam, terrorism at the 1972 Munich Olympics, urban squalor, bizarre crimes, high prices, and a bad economy. The country fell into a great funk. But when things fall apart, you can take the fragments and make something fresh. Avocado kitchens and Earth Shoes may have been ugly, but they signaled new modes of seeing and being. The first generation to see Earth from space found ways to make life's everyday routines-eating, keeping warm, taking out the trash-meaningful, both personally and globally. And many decided to reinvent themselves. In Populuxe, a "textbook of consumerism in the Push Button Age" (Alan J. Adler, Los Angeles Times), Thomas Hine scrutinized the looks and life of the 1950s and 1960s, revealing the hopes and fears expressed in that era's design. In the same way, The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies maps a complex era by looking at its ideas, feelings, sex, fashions, textures, gestures, colors, demographic forces, artistic expressions, and other phenomena that shaped our lives. Hine gets into the shoes and heads of those who experienced the seventies-exploring their homes, feeling the beat of their music, and scanning the ads that incited their desires. But The Great Funk is more than a lavish catalogue of seventies culture: it's a smart, informed, lively look at the "Me decade" through the eyes of the man House & Garden called "America's sharpest design critic."
Author: Thomas Hine Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780374531676 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
At long last, the author of the beloved Populuxe turns his sights on that most confusing and confused decade of all, the 1970s. Thomas Hine scrutinises the looks and life of this complex era, climbing into the heads (and shoes!) of those who experienced the 1970s, exploring the designs of their homes, the styles of their fashion and the advertisements that set their desires on fire. A brilliantly original, wonderfully lively look at the me decade' through the eyes of the man House & Garden has called 'America's sharpest design critic'.'
Author: Rickey Vincent Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin ISBN: 1466884525 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 414
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Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warriors on the dance floor. Its rhythms and lyrics turned bleak urban realties inside out with distinctive, danceable, downright irresistible music. Funk hasn't received the critical attention that rock, jazz, and the blues have-until now. Colorful, intelligent, and in-you-face, Rickey Vincent's Funk celebrates the songs, the musicians, the philosophy, and the meaning of funk. The book spans from the early work of James Brown (the Godfather of Funk) through today, covering funky soul (Stevie Wonder, the Temptations), so-called "black rock" (Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Isley Brothers), jazz-funk (Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock), monster funk (Parliament, Funkadelic, Bootsy's Rubber Band), naked funk (Rick James, Gap Band), disco-funk (Chic, K.C. and the Sunshine Band), funky pop (Kook & the Gang, Chaka Khan), P-Funk Hip Hop (Digital Underground, De La Soul), funk-sampling rap (Ice Cube, Dr. Dre), funk rock (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Primus), and more. Funk tells a vital, vibrant history-the history of a uniquely American music born out of tradition and community, filled with energy, attitude, anger, hope, and an irrepressible spirit.
Author: Jim Payne Publisher: Mel Bay Publications ISBN: 1609745825 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 251
Book Description
This 248 page book is an exciting documentation of the innovative period of the '60s and '70s when the rhythm of popular music was changed forever. Featured here are biographies, interviews, discographies and rare archival photos of more than 20 great drummers of R&B, funk and soul, including the drummers of James Brown, Earth, Wind and Fire, Otis Redding and Sly and the Family Stone. the true originators of the modern hip-hop beats tell their stories, and the history of the funk comes to life. Appropriate for music fans of all kinds, and all drummers: beginners thru advanced.
Author: Jim Payne Publisher: Mel Bay Publications ISBN: 1610653432 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 57
Book Description
Transcriptions of over 100 famous drum set rhythms from the classic funk, R&B and soul tunes of the '60s & 70's. the accompanying 90 track CD features the author playing many of the rhythms transcribed in the book and is meant as an educational tool.
Author: Shane Theriot Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing ISBN: 9780769291093 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
In this book Shane discusses and demonstrates all the stylistic elements that set the music of New Orleans apart. Topics include funk rhythms, muting and 16th-note grooves, the clave, melodic phrases, authentic second line" grooves, and Cajun and Zydeco styles. All the music is demonstrated on the included recording featuring Shane and a group of premier New Orleans musicians."
Author: Anne Danielsen Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 0819501603 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 279
Book Description
In this exploration of the funk groove and its unique sounds, author Anne Danielsen takes an in-depth look at this under-explored genre. Danielsen concentrates on the golden age of funk in the late 1960s and the 1970s, focusing on two of the era's artists who made a substantial impact on the landscape of popular music: James Brown and George Clinton/Parliament. Aiming to understand funk not only as objectified musical meaning but also as lived experience, she begins with the musical events themselves and draws on her experiences as both a fan and a scholar to capture how their particular organization creates the funk listener's pleasure. Danielsen further examines issues surrounding race in the construction and consumption of this music, focusing her study with how white listeners responded to funk in the 1970s, and arguing that African American music has remained a means of catharsis and of dealing with pleasures of the body. Funk's crossover to international success among listeners of pop and rock music affected both the music itself and audiences' understanding of it. Presence and Pleasure shows us how.
Author: Jon Scieszka Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1442446730 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
Alex, whose birthday it is, hijacks a story about Birthday Bunny on his special day and turns it into a battle between a supervillain and his enemies in the forest--who, in the original story, are simply planning a surprise party.
Author: James Jamerson Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 9780881888829 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
(Guitar Book). Bassist James Jamerson was the embodiment of the Motown spirit and groove the invisible entity whose playing inspired thousands. His tumultuous life and musical brilliance are explored in depth through hundreds of interviews, 49 transcribed musical scores, two hours of recorded all-star performances, and more than 50 rarely seen photos in this stellar tribute to behind-the-scenes Motown. Features a 120-minute CD! Allan Slutsky's 2002 documentary of the same name is the winner of the New York Film Critics "Best Documentary of the Year" award!
Author: Terry Funk Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN: 1613210973 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 273
Book Description
This is the story of the life and career of unpredictable former professionalwrestling star Terry Funk, known around the world as "The Hardcore Legend."
Author: Thomas Hine
Author: Thomas Hine
Author: Thomas Hine
Author: Rickey Vincent
Author: Jim Payne
Author: Jim Payne
Author: Shane Theriot
Author: Anne Danielsen
Author: Jon Scieszka
Author: James Jamerson
Author: Terry Funk