Avant-garde funk ( Eng. Avant-funk ) is a musical genre in which musicians combine funky rhythms with the avant-garde and art-rock mentality [2] . Its heyday occurred in the late 1970s in a post-punk environment, embracing Negro dance genres [3] .
| Avant-garde funk | |
|---|---|
 Rock band Talking Heads combines funky music with elements of punk rock and art rock | |
| Direction | Funk , avant-garde music |
| The origins | Funk, avant-garde music, art rock , psychedelic music , progressive rock , Eurodisk , know-wave [1] |
| Place and time of occurrence | 1960s, UK and USA |
| Derivatives | |
| House , drum and bass | |
| see also | |
| Avant-garde pop , know-wave, post-punk , funk metal , free funk | |
Content
Features
Musical critic Simon Reynolds described avant-garde funk as “complex dance music ” and a kind of psychedelia in which “oblivion should not have been achieved through elevation above the body, but through immersion in a physical state in which a person lost himself through animalism” [2 ] . Simon Frith described avant-garde funk as applying a progressive rock mentality to rhythm rather than melody and harmony [2] . Some style motifs in the 1970s and 1980s included “ Eurodisk rhythms; synthesizers used to create not pristine, hygienic textures, but poisonous, noisy abominations; Burroughs slicing method applied to found voices ” [2] .
History
Early acts that were retrospectively described with this term include German kraut-rock band Can [4] , American funk performers Sly Stone and George Clinton [5] and jazz trumpeter Miles Davis [6] . According to Reynolds, an innovative wave of avant-garde funk musicians came in the late 1970s [7] when post-punk artists (including Public Image Ltd. , Liquid Liquid and James Chance [8] , as well as Cabaret Voltaire , Talking Heads , The Pop Group , DAF , A Certain Ratio and 23 Skidoo [9] ) began to use black styles of dance music in their music, such as funk and disco [3] . Reynolds noted the concern of these performers with issues such as alienation , repression, and the technocracy of Western modernity [2] . Musicians of the New York know-wave scene of the late 1970s also explored avant-garde funk influenced by figures such as Ornett Coleman [1] .
Soon, bands such as Skinny Puppy , Chakk , 400 Blows began to appear, which represented later waves of style [7] . By the mid-1980s, it had dissipated, and many of its performers became part of the first wave of house music in the UK [9] . Avant-garde funk will continue to influence drum and bass producers of the 1990s, such as 4hero and A Guy Called Gerald. [10]
List of Performers
- A Certain Ratio [7]
- Cabaret Voltaire [7]
- Can [4]
- Chakk [7]
- George Clinton [5]
- Miles Davis
- Defunkt [11]
- DAF [9]
- The Pop Group [7]
- Public Image Ltd. [9]
- Skinny Puppy [2]
- Sly Stone [5]
- Talking Heads [9]
- 23 Skidoo [7] [9]
- 400 Blows [7]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Murray, Charles Shaar. Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix & The Post-War Rock 'N' Roll Revolution . - Macmillan, October 1991. - P. 205. - ISBN 9780312063245 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Reynolds, Simon. [[[New Statesman]] End of the Track] (Neopr.) : Magazine. - 1987 .-- February 13.
- ↑ 1 2 Reynolds, Simon. Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 . - Penguin, 2006. - ISBN 9781101201053 .
- ↑ 1 2 Krautrock Reissues , Melody Maker (1995). Date of treatment March 5, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Passings , Billboard , Nielsen. Date of treatment March 5, 2017.
- ↑ Forgotten Heroes: Pete Cosey . Premier Guitar . Date of appeal April 27, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 23 Skidoo: Seven Songs, Urban Gamelan , Uncut (2001). Date accessed March 20, 2017. (unavailable link)
- ↑ http://www.popmatters.com/.../the-50-best-post-punk-albums-ever-p ...
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Reynolds, Simon. Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture . - Soft Skull Press, 2012 .-- P. 20, 202. - ISBN 9781593764777 .
- ↑ Return Of The Gerald, Mixmag (February 1995).
- ↑ Staff. Clubland (Eng.) // New York : magazine. - 1995 .-- February 6 ( vol. 28 , no. 6 ). - P. 80 .