In this Issue

Table of Contents

Remembering James Farrell

p. 5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0110
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Groove Theory: A Vamp on the Epistemology of Funk

Tony Bolden
pp. 9-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0114
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“She Was Too Black for Rock and Too Hard for Soul”: (Re)discovering the Musical Career of Betty Mabry Davis

Cheryl L. Keyes
pp. 35-55
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0107
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The Feminist Funk Power of Betty Davis and Renée Stout

Nikki A. Greene
pp. 57-76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0117
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Labelle: Funk, Feminism, and the Politics of Flight and Fight

Francesca T. Royster
pp. 77-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0120
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Make It Funky: Fela Kuti, James Brown and the Invention of Afrobeat

Alexander Stewart
pp. 99-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0124
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The Blues/Funk Futurism of Roger Troutman

Scot Brown
pp. 119-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0125
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“Chameleon” Meets Soul Train: Herbie, James, Michael, Damita Jo, and Jazz-Funk

Steven F. Pond
pp. 125-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0106
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Belief in Lyric

Aldon Lynn Nielsen
pp. 171-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0118
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Diggin’ You Like Those Ol’ Soul Records: Meshell Ndegeocello and the Expanding Definition of Funk in Postsoul America

Tammy L. Kernodle
pp. 181-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0109
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Beyond Keeping It Real: OutKast, the Funk Connection, and Afrofuturism

Howard Rambsy II
pp. 205-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0113
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Now We Want Our Funk Cut: Janelle Monáe’s Neo-Afrofuturism

Daylanne K. English, Alvin Kim
pp. 217-230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0116
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Grace (for Be’la Dona)

DaMaris Hill
p. 231
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0122
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The Seed of Starchild

Glenn North
pp. 232-233
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0126
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Untitled

Tracie Morris
p. 234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0108
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Danger, Live Feed

Duriel E. Harris
pp. 245-247
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0115
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Notesofasoulfulson

avery r. young
pp. 248-252
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0123
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Oshun as Ohio Player(s)

Krista Franklin
p. 253
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0128
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Thrombipxtasy, and: The Slop, and: Insig, and: One Nation

Harold Smith
pp. 254-257
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0127
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Editor’s Introduction

Tony Bolden
pp. 7-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0111
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Exploring the Funkadelic Aesthetic: Intertextuality and Cosmic Philosophizing in Funkadelic’s Album Covers and Liner Notes

Amy Nathan Wright
pp. 141-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0121
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Crank Shaped Notes

Thomas Sayers Ellis
pp. 235-244
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0112
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Notes on Contributors

pp. 258-260
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0119
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