Rickey Vincent
Rickey Vincent is an American author, historian, and radio host based in the
Vincent grew up in
UC Berkeley in 2008. He is a lecturer at Berkeley,[4] City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University and California College of the Arts in Oakland. Vincent has hosted the KPFA radio program "The History of Funk" since 1997. In 2001, HUSHconcerts founded the San Francisco Funk Festival based upon Vincent's academic work to place the musical genre in a societal and artistic context.[5]
Vincent has appeared on television documentaries involving
culture, including multiple episodes of Unsung
. In 2013, Vincent released his second book, Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music (Chicago Review Press 2013).
References
- ^ "Rickey Vincent". Los Angeles Review of Books. LARB. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
- ^ "FUNK The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One". MacMillan Publishers. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
- ^ a b Billy Jam (December 13, 2010). "THE HISTORY OF FUNK BY RICKEY VINCENT". Amoeblog. Amoeba Records. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
- ^ Vincent at the University of California, Berkeley website
- ^ "SF Funk Festival". HUSHconcerts. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
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