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From the cotton fields to Woodstock and from seeing Sonny Boy Williamson and Elvis Presley to playing for President Clinton

Drawing upon more than one hundred films and film scores

a fresh interpretation of a lyric that leaves you thunderstruck

Sam Cooke was among the first to blend gospel music and secular themes -- the early foundation of soul music

Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One nina simone From the cotton fields toby Rickey Vincent (Author), George Clinton (Foreword) 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 irresistable music. Funk hasn't received the critical attention that rock, jazz, and the blues have until now. Colorful,