The Beat: Go Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop is unique among music titles. It is the first book to explore the social, cultural, and musical phenomenon of African-American music largely known for its spirit, its energy, and its vitality. Sometimes locally known as "the most evolved form of funk," it is the funkiest form of black popular music unembraced by the cultural mainstream, perhaps known as well in Europe and the Far East as it is across the United States. But Good to Go is not just about music, though music forms its core. Recognizing that music cannot be separated from the culture from which it derives, the book is equal parts black life, youth culture, local politics, the mass media, hip hop culture, urban aesthetics, entrepreneurship, and the struggles of everyday life. In short, it is a book about an expression of blackness, and a celebration and reflection of life in the black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. and Prince Georges County, Maryland. The Beat chronicles the development and popularity of Go Go music since its evolution in the early 1970s, when Chuck Brown left a Latin band to form the seminal Go Go band Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers. His new band fused funk with disco's non-stop music ethic and added the additional percussionists that he had grown to love playing polyrhythmic Latin music. To this mixture Brown fused one of the oldest formats in black American music, call and response, which so many of his fans were familiar ...

ISBN10: 0823077276, ISBN13: 9780823077274, [publisher: Billboard Books] Softcover Cover has light scratches. Back cover has a crease. Some outer edges have minor scuffs. Book content is in very good readable condition.
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New York, NY Billboard Books 2001 Trade paperback Good. Cover has light scratches. Back cover has a crease. Some outer edges have minor scuffs. Book content is in very good readable condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Contains: Illustrations.

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ISBN10: 0823077276, ISBN13: 9780823077274, [publisher: Billboard Books] Softcover Book is in NEW condition.
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