Adrian Piper: Funk Lessons

by Elvan Zabunyan

On Adrian Piper's radical pedagogy of transgression and the importance of soul and funk music in the African American struggle for emancipation.

From 1982 to 1984, Adrian Piper staged a number of audience-interactive performances in universities or museum settings, under the title Funk Lessons. Using the didactic format of a "lesson" (including characteristic paraphernalia such as blackboards), Piper endeavored to teach the basic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846382645
• ISBN13: 9781846382642
• Release Date: January 2079
• Publisher: Afterall Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.