A videotape piece based on an audience-interactive performance of
Funk
Lessons at the University of California, Berkeley that goes considerably
beyond the performance. Both performance and tape address the ambiguous
status of African-American working class music and dance as serious contributors
to American art and culture. In the performance I teach my audience how
to listen to this music and how to dance to it. There's a lot of audience
response in this tape, which is humorous and also moving. Edited and directed
by Sam Samore, produced by Tom Oden. For a more recent, international
approach to the same material, I highly recommend the stately but endearing
Finnish/German/ Russian treatment at
http://folk.uio.no/tsandvik/fun/learn_disco.mpg