{"id":3528,"date":"2012-08-06T10:15:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T14:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2012-08-06T10:15:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T14:15:57","slug":"jazz-i-prefer-funk-it-made-me-aware-and-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2012\/08\/06\/jazz-i-prefer-funk-it-made-me-aware-and-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz? I Prefer Funk – It Made Me Aware and Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(I\u2019m calling fanboi warning on this post.)<\/p>\n

I believe in Funk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first time I heard Parliament-Funkadelic\u2019s \u201cDo That Stuff\u201d I was in \u2013 knee deep. Funk. The bomb. P-Funk. Uncut, lip-curling, stank, funk! I realized that I was a Funkateer all my life and never realized it. (Name-shouts for James Brown, The Bar-Kays, Booker T. and the M.G.s, The Brothers Johnson, Rufus, Sly Stone, and Prince.)<\/p>\n

Wasn\u2019t just about the groove and the thump. For me, funkiness was a way of life \u2013 it gave me a sense of self, freed us from small inhibitions, and offered a way for us to come alive. Sure, Funk \u2013 especially George Clinton style \u2013 was about a little ego trippin\u2019 but, for me \u2013 when it was righteous \u2013 it was about protest, escaping, and guided me to my own uniqueness. Funk is a celebration of being human and all the conditions that go with it. It\u2019s about the joy of life.<\/p>\n

I peeped a mothership connection on campus in, of all things, a course<\/a>! And, in a University<\/a>! So, to get the discussion going for the first day of school and to avoid coming in unprepared, I\u2019ve got one question: if the American people decided to rededicate Mount Rushmore<\/a> to the Funk \u2013 let\u2019s call it the new Mount Funkmore \u2013 which four mugs does Overton Loyd<\/a> chisel on the rock?<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t fake the funk, listen<\/a> for yourself.<\/p>\n

Peace<\/p>\n

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Screenshot above: Recreating Sir Nose as a clone from Funkentelechy VS the Placebo Syndrome (overtonloyd.blogspot.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(I\u2019m calling fanboi warning on this post.) I believe in Funk. The first time I heard Parliament-Funkadelic\u2019s \u201cDo That Stuff\u201d I was in \u2013 knee deep. Funk. The bomb. P-Funk. Uncut, lip-curling, stank, funk! I realized that I was a Funkateer all my life and never realized it. (Name-shouts for James Brown, The Bar-Kays, Booker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4683,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/4683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}