funkentelechy

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

peter culley schrieb:

> As a mostly fascinated/baffled onlurker I've been grateful for the recent
>  Simpsons/rap/zappa threads--something I know about!  My adolescent first
>  readings of V and Gravity's Rainbow occurred during the mid 70's (the
>  Bantams fitted nicely into one's pockets and were thus always accessible)
>  and is linked very clearly in my own memory to the Parliament/Funkadelic
>  records of that era, especially the 1977 "Funkentelechy vs the Placebo
>  Syndrome" a 45-minute survival course for the next 25 yrs, as important for
>  me as GR and linked in all kinds of ways.  George Clinton's analyses of mass
>  media, drugs, and racial politics seem to me more advanced that Baudrillard,
>  let alone Zappa, a village explainer if ever there was one.  And, most
>  importantly, distinctly Pynchonesque in his use of motifs, codes,
>  "unintelligability", etc, etc,  Has anybody written, or even thought about
>  this connection?  I hate to think my youth was ill-spent.
>

   brian cross: what kind of funk do you listen to man?
   dr. dre: george clinton, zapp, let me think, sly, bootsie of course, george  
   clinton has definitely been strongest. 
   bc: how do you put the tracks together?
   dd: smoke a little bit of the chronic, start fucking around with the drums 
   ... 

            --- brian cross: it's not about a salary ... rap, race and 
            resistance in los angeles. london/ny 1993: verso, p. 198. ---


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