Editing Funk (section)

===Avant-funk===
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The term "avant-funk" has been used to describe acts who combined funk with [[art rock]]'s concerns.<ref name="new"/> [[Simon Frith]] described the style as an application of [[progressive rock]] mentality to rhythm rather than melody and harmony.<ref name="new">{{cite web|last1=Reynolds|first1=Simon|title=End of the Track|url=http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2013/05/end-of-track-albums-round-up-column-new.html|website=[[New Statesman]]|access-date=March 5, 2017}}</ref> [[Simon Reynolds]] characterized avant-funk as a kind of [[psychedelia]] in which "oblivion was to be attained not through rising above the body, rather through immersion in the physical, self loss through animalism."<ref name="new"/>

[[File:Talking Heads band1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|[[Talking Heads]] combined funk with elements of [[art rock]].]]

Acts in the genre include German [[krautrock]] band [[Can (band)|Can]]<ref name="melody">{{cite news|last1=Reynolds|first1=Simon|title=Krautrock Reissues|url=http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2013/03/krautrock-melody-maker-july-1996-by.html|access-date=March 5, 2017|work=[[Melody Maker]]|date=1995}}</ref> and American funk artists [[Sly Stone]] and [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]].<ref name="billboard">{{cite news|title=Passings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1BMEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22avant-funk%22+sly+stone&pg=RA1-PA39|access-date=March 5, 2017|work=[[Billboard Magazine|Billboard]]|date = December 25, 2004|issue=116|publisher=Nielsen}}</ref> A wave of early 1980s UK and US [[post-punk]] artists (including [[Public Image Ltd]], [[Talking Heads]], [[the Pop Group]], [[Gang of Four (band)|Gang of Four]], [[Bauhaus (band)|Bauhaus]], [[Cabaret Voltaire (band)|Cabaret Voltaire]], [[Defunkt]], [[A Certain Ratio]], and [[23 Skidoo (band)|23 Skidoo]])<ref name="energy">{{cite book|last1=Reynolds|first1=Simon|title=Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture|date=2012|publisher=Soft Skull Press|pages=20, 202|isbn=9781593764777|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o5wGKnxoTAwC&q=disco+%22avant-funk%22|access-date=March 5, 2017}}{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> embraced black dance music styles such as disco and funk.<ref name="rip">{{cite book|last1=Reynolds|first1=Simon|title=Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984|date=2006|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9780143036722|url=https://archive.org/details/ripitupstartagai00reyno|url-access=registration|quote=avant-funk sly stone.}}</ref> The artists of the late 1970s New York [[no wave]] scene also explored avant-funk, influenced by figures such as [[Ornette Coleman]].<ref name="murray">{{cite book|last1=Murray|first1=Charles Shaar|title=Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix & The Post-War Rock 'N' Roll Revolution|date=October 1991|publisher=Macmillan|page=205|isbn=9780312063245|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CiWtlIxnQ6gC&q=avant-funk+no+wave&pg=PA205|access-date=March 6, 2017}}</ref> Reynolds noted these artists' preoccupations with issues such as [[Social alienation|alienation]], [[Social repression|repression]] and technocracy of Western [[modernity]].<ref name="new"/>