Abstract

Although James Brown's seminal musical pioneering was popular during the mid-1960s, his educated band members were of view that his Funk prototype was simplistic and unsophisticated and thus not really to be taken seriously. With the curiosity to establish how the 'Godfather of Souls' managed to maintain the required level of agency to direct the trained talent and synthesize such differences of musical opinion into the cohesive and enduring influence on popular music, an illustration of how a certain type of naivety was necessary to realize one of music's most creative forces, one that exemplifies the necessity of the illogical in the age of informational regime is presented.

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