Make My Funk the P-Funk

Parliament-Funkadelic's Meteoric Rise in 1975 from Chocolate City to Mothership Connection

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Make My Funk the P-Funk

Parliament-Funkadelic's Meteoric Rise in 1975 from Chocolate City to Mothership Connection

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P-Funk keyboardist Daniel Bedrosian brings to life the recording and musical activity of Parliament-Funkadelic in 1975, an epoch-making year marked by the release of three seminal albums: Chocolate City, Let's Take It to the Stage, and Mothership Connection. By the end of it, George Clinton and P-Funk were catapulted into superstardom, becoming a massive platinum success with multiple hit singles.

Incorporating exclusive insights and memories from significant P-Funk members including Clinton himself, the book investigates how P-Funk's sound evolved throughout the year and eventually crystallized into the unique sound most associated with the group. Bedrosian pulls back the curtain on these three albums and their individual tracks, revealing important details of production styles, artistic processes, musical influences, themes, historical importance, and so much more. He also dives into major P-Funk lore and political and social influences during this time, including Clinton's Afrofuturism.

At the beginning of 1975, Chocolate City-as a “tribute to Washington D.C.”-saw George Clinton putting Black people in the White House. By the end of the year, Mothership Connection-much more a movement than an album-saw him launching Black people in space, solidifying the band's music as its own subgenre and laying down the foundation for many different types of popular music, including hip-hop.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter One - Overview of 1975
Chapter Two - The Prior 20 Years of P-Funk History
Chapter Three - Chocolate City by Parliament
Chapter Four - Let's Take It to the Stage by Funkadelic
Chapter Five - Mothership Connection by Parliament
Chapter Six - P-Funk's Development and Influence from 1975 Onward

Epilogue

Appendix A: The Players
Appendix B: Select Samples and Interpolations List

Select Sources
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 02 Oct 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 288
ISBN 9798881800659
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 21 b/w photos
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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