Encyclopedia > Uncle Jam Wants You

  Article Content

Uncle Jam Wants You

Title of album: Uncle Jam Wants You

Artist: Funkadelic

Release date: 1979

Record label: Warner Brothers

In some ways, "Uncle Jam Wants You" (a reference to the "Uncle Sam wants you!" US Army recruitment posters) is a more militant sequel to the previous album, One Nation Under a Groove. Whereas that album described an ideal country ruled by Funk, "Uncle Jam" actually attempts to provoke the conversion into Funkadelia. Its purpose is also (as the cover claims) to "rescue dance music from the blahs." The cover art depicts George Clinton in a Huey Newton[?]-Black Panthers pose, reflecting the more martial lyrical themes of the album.

Track Listing:

Personnel (credited as the Funkadelic Rescue Dance Band)

Critical response:

  • ?Uncle Jam Wants You takes not merely a more daring musical approach but a more forthright political stance"

Other external links:

  • the Motherpage (http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/albums_funkadelic/alb-unclejam)



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Urethra

... occurs lower than normal in hypospadias). A chordee[?] is when the urethra develops between the penis and the scrotum. Infection of the urethra is urethritis, said to ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 71.2 ms