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In the '70s, blues rock (a modern white version of the blues) transformed itself into heavy metal , typified by Led Zeppelin . Singer/songwriters like James Taylor recorded easy-listening confessionals, and country-rockers like the Eagles institutionalized The Byrds' country experiments (and adumbrated the slick contemporary country sound of Nashville stars like Garth Brooks ). Funk ( James Brown , Sly and the Family Stone, Funkedelic) made soul wilder and looser, and disco combined the celebration of Eros and dancing with beats derived from funk, Latin music, and German experimentalists like Kraftwerk.
In 1969, Davis ventured into the lugubrious, brooding funk of Bitches Brew . The quintet was Davis' last remarkable tango with jazz.
(Actually, I think that the Bank of Japan could still pull that economy out of its funk, and that its passivity is a case of gross malfeasance.
In his introduction to Heavens to Betsy and Other Curious Sayings (Harper & Row, 1955), Charles Earle Funk said that the very title of his book “turned out eventually to be completely unsolvable.”
Green is correct in writing that the (unabridged Funk & Wagnalls) Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893) gives two pronunciations for each entry, but he is mistaken in reporting that one represents the popular pronunciation, the other showing the precise one [p.364]: there are two pronunciations because one employs a more popular, presumably understandable pronunciation key (called, in the phonetics trade, a broad transcription) while the other cleaves to a scholarly transcription (called a narrow transcription); if such a pattern were followed today, the first would be the simplified system used generally in most dictionaries and the second would employ the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (which, for their more recondite transcriptions, require a trained phonetician for their understanding).
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