Found inside – Page 83“Mothership Connection” is itself a combination of original material with a quotation from an African American spiritual: “swing low, sweet chariot, ... Found inside – Page 600Among Parliament ' s recordings are Up for the Down Stroke ( 1974 ) , the 1975 million - sellers Chocolate City and Mothership Connection , The Clones of Dr . Funkenstein ( 1976 ) , Funkentelechy vs . the Placebo Syndrome ( 1977 ) , and ... Found inside – Page 245Mothership. Connection. Were I doomed to live in isolation with just one record, and I don't mean lolling around on a desert island so much as being ... Written by DWAYNE MCDUFFIE Art by M.D. BRIGHT, MIKE GUSTOVICH & OTHERS Cover by DENYS COWAN & JIMMY PALMIOTTI With the secret of his origin in danger, Icon must abandon Dakota, leaving Rocket in charge. Found inside – Page 109It is as if in this instance, Dr. Dre relinquishes the spotlight as the rap star and calls our attention to the power of “Mothership Connection (Star ... Found inside – Page 123"Mothership-Connection" was not only a record with a sleeve showing him descending from a spacecraft in shimmering seventies transgender clothing and ... Found inside – Page 339Dwayne McDuffie and Mark Bright, “Testify,” in McDuffie, Bright, and Gustovich, Mothership Connection, 175–176. 16. McDuffie and Bright, “By Their Own ... Found inside – Page 178It is embodied in the Mothership narrative that exists simultaneously in black popular culture ( famously in George Clinton ' s funk music collective the Mothership Connection ) , in black science fiction literature , but also in one of the most ... Found inside – Page 153The album begins with “P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)” from Mothership Connection (1975). With an instrumental introduction featuring Fred Wesley on solo ... Found inside – Page 119P.Funk-Mothership Connection P. Funk (WantsTo Get Funked Up) Mothership Connection (Star Child) Unfunky UFO Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication (TheThumps ... Found insideBeginning with the Mothership Connection, then, Clinton transposed Star Trek narratives into allegories of funk. But while alterity was associated with evil ... Found insideMothership. Connection. “O. ne of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu, the essence of being human,” said South African clergyman and Nobel Peace prize ... Found insideAbout halfway through the set, during “Mothership Connection,” guitarist Glenn Goins would repeatedly sing the line, “I think I see the mothership comin'. Found inside – Page 257... 139 Jones , LeRoi , 15-16 The Mothership Connection , 114 , 117p , 137-38 Kant , Immanuel , 198 , 202-3 " The Mothership Connection " ( ParliaKeil ... Found inside – Page 247... The Mothership Connection [1975], The Clones of Doctor Funkenstein [1976], ... as the opening of The Mothership Connection makes clear: “Do not attempt ... Found inside – Page 445In 1975, Parliament released The Mothership Connection (hereafter Mothership). The album confirmed Clinton's ability to direct a massive battery of ... Found insideParliament uses the imagery of the Mothership in Mothership Connection (1976), which Rolling Stone has named one of the five hundred best albums of all time ... Found inside – Page 165Clinton's 1975 Mothership Connection album borrowed a page from Jimi Hendrix's “EXP" song, where Hendrix had a news announcer telling the audience that a ... Found inside – Page x... with their recording of “Ship Ahoy” (1973) and to George Clinton for inspiring my book title with his recording of “Mothership Connection” (1975). Found inside – Page 209The mothership connection, referring obviously to George Clinton's famous album from the 1970s with the same title, indicates the link between music and the ... Found inside – Page 97Parliament, Mothership Connection (Casablanca LP 1975). —, Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome (Casablanca LP 1977). Funkadelic, One Nation Under a ... Found inside'Mothership Connection (Star Child)', Mothership Connection (Casablanca NBLP 7022, 1976). –––,'Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples', Mothership Connection ... Found inside – Page 95Of these two, attention to the hip-swinging dance in the video classifies “Mothership Connection” with the other eight in suggesting recreational sex. Found insidegeorge​clinton, Mothership Connection Music​is​the​weapon​of​the​future.​ fela​kuti Not only has the presence of black characters increased in science ... Found inside – Page 1978... Whitechapel Art Gallery , London 1998 Fresh Cream : Contemporary Art in Culture , Phaidon Press , London 1998 From the Corner of the Eye , Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam Born 1965 1996 Mothership Connection , Lives London Stedelijk ... This is a story of a beloved global icon who dedicated himself to spreading the gospel of funk music. Found insideOn Chocolate City, Parliament's album right before Mothership Connection, “we had imagined a black man in the White House,” Clinton said. The research presented in this volume is very recent, and the general approach is that of rethinking popular musicology: its purpose, its aims, and its methods. Found inside – Page 171Released in , Parliament's Mothership Connection pointed to an African diaspora through an unlikely collision of folk and mass culture. Found inside – Page 174Re—emerging to lead the band in “Mothership Connection,” Clinton wears no spacey outfit; instead his red skirt fringed with white fur tassels, top comprised ... Found inside – Page 311On Mothership Connection he updated the otherworldly transcendence of slave spirituals for the space age : transport from the ghetto was offered by chitlin ... Found inside – Page 24In The Mothership Connection (1995), Akomfrah attempts to understand the ... Connections are suggested between the musical sources of George Clinton and Sun ... Found inside – Page 241The Mothership Connection LP was a motherlode of concepts and rhythm on a level never witnessed before. Lyrics spoke of “returning to claim the pyramids” ... Found insideFor the exhibition Mothership Connection at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam in 1996 , Alvi covered the floor of an exhibition space with a ... In this compulsive act he connected a sexual desire with the desire to really make something . Found inside – Page 21Mothership Connection " allows George and Stan to relive classic funkadelia letting Gerald Alston handle lead vocal chores on a rather slushy soul ballad . Veering refreshingly off the commercial aspect for a moment , " From The Deepest " is ... This book is the most comprehensive history yet of the life, music and cultural significance of the last of the great black music pioneers and the era which spawned him. Found inside – Page 287And that was Mothership Connection . That one worked ' cause we used the funkin ' thing , the costuming thing was beginning to be different . Found inside – Page 74Both “Mothership Connection” and “Swing Down, Sweet Chariot” possess distinctly messianic characteristics. Drawing from old slave spirituals that spoke ... Found inside – Page 451PARLIAMENT'S MOTHERSHIP In 1973, Clinton signed his operation to a contract ... “The Mothership Connection LP was a motherlode of concepts and rhythm on a ... Found inside – Page 43In late 1975 the funk mastermind expanded his philosophy and system of myth on the band's first concept album, Mothership Connection. Found insideReleased in the same year, Mothership Connection needs to be thought of as the counterpart to Chocolate City. Where Chocolate City is national, Mothership ... Found inside – Page 126PARLIAMENT Mothership Connection UNI / MERCURY 1976 George Clinton : Glen Goins , vocals Michael Hampton , Bootsy Collins : Gary Shider : bass , drums ... Found insideI am the Mothership Connection. You have overcome, for I am here! “At times the cross-model synesthetic projection may help ... excitation coming in the ... Found inside – Page 171In Mothership Connection and its space-operatic follow-ups, the ancient African musical infections highlighted in Clinton's deep baritone vocals receives ... Found inside – Page 147The P-Funk Mothership first appeared on the cover of Parliament's 1975 futuristic concept album, Mothership Connection, taking funk bandmaster George ... With the secret of his origin in danger, Icon must abandon Dakota, leaving Rocket in charge. Plus: Don't miss the amazing exploits of Buck Wild! Collecting ICON #13, 19-22, 24-26 and 30.