Avant-funk
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Avant-funk (also called mutant disco in the early 1980s[2]) is a music style in which artists combine funk or disco rhythms with an avant-garde or art rock mentality.[4] Its most prominent era occurred in the late 1970s and 1980s among post-punk and no wave acts who embraced black dance music.[5]
Characteristics
Artists described as "avant-funk" or "mutant disco" have blended elements from styles such as
Musicologist Simon Frith described avant-funk as an application of progressive rock mentality to rhythm rather than melody and harmony.[4] Reynolds described avant-funk as "difficult dance music" and a kind of psychedelia in which "oblivion was to be attained not through rising above the body, rather through immersion in the physical, self loss through animalism."[4]
History
Early acts who have retrospectively been described with the term include German
According to Reynolds, a pioneering wave of avant-funk artists came in the late 1970s, when
Later groups such as
See also
References
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- ^ a b c d Reynolds, Simon (1995). "Review: James White And The Blacks - Off White (Infinite Zero/American) / James Chance & The Contortions - Lost Chance (ROIR)". Mojo.
- ^ ISBN 9780312063245. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ a b c d e Reynolds, Simon (February 13, 1987). "End of the Track". New Statesman.
- ^ ISBN 9781101201053.
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- ^ Jarnow, Jesse. "Herbie Hancock: Cafe Curiosity". Paste. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
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- ^ Brody, Richard. "Ornette Coleman's Revolution". The New Yorker. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
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- ^ Greenman, Ben. "Living with Music: A Playlist by Ben Greenman". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- ^ Jackson, Josh; et al. (21 June 2021). "The Best Albums of 1981". Paste. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ Thomas H Green, "Mutant disco from planet ZE", Daily Telegraph, 13 August 2009
- ^ Staff (February 1995). "Return Of The Gerald". Mixmag. No. 45.