Rickey Vincent: 4 books

Examining the culture and politics of the Black Power era of the late 1960s, this book explores the relationship of soul music to the Black Power movement from the vantage point of the musicians and black revolutionaries themselves. The 1960s were a turbulent time for race relations in the United...

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...

Il funk è l’unico genere musicale che sia riuscito a trasformare una nazione in un martellante esercito di guerrieri della pista da ballo, in un vortice di pantaloni a zampa di elefante, grandi orecchini rotondi e teste afro multicolori. Il suo ritmo e i suoi temi hanno stravolto completamente...

With Hit Me, Fred, sensational sideman Fred Wesley Jr. moves front and center to tell his life story. A legendary funk, soul, and jazz musician, Wesley is best known for his work in the late sixties and early seventies with James Brown and as the leader of Brown’s band, Fred Wesley and the JB’s....