Disruption and DisFunktion: Locating a Funk Sensorium in Twentieth Century African American Literature

<p>This dissertation examines the way in which funk music, in the context of twentieth century African American literature, operates as a means of stimulating the sensorium. Funk, narrowly defined as a musical form, once carried negative connotations. Whether understood as depression, a genr...

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Main Author: Wasserman, Casey
Other Authors: Holloway, Karla
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3925