Presence and Pleasure

Winner of the 2007 Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music Winner of IASPM's 2007 International Book Award 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 t