Rickey Vincent is an American author, historian, and radio host based in theSan Francisco Bay Area. Vincent is the author ofFunk: The Music, the People and the Rhythm of The One (St. Martin’s Press, 1996), which encompasses the history offunk music, and won theASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Award for Music Writing in 1997.[1][2][3] He also authored another book titled:PARTY MUSIC: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music (Lawrence Hill Books, 2013), which details the role theCivil Rights Movement had on transformingSoul Music into something more than music.[4]
Vincent grew up inBerkeley, California, and saw funk and soul bands play in theOakland Coliseum in the 1970s.[3] He obtained a Master of Arts inEthnic Studies atSan Francisco State University in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies atUC Berkeley in 2008. He is a lecturer at Berkeley,[5]City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University andCalifornia College of the Arts inOakland. Vincent has hosted theKPFA radio program "The History of Funk" since 1997. In 2001, HUSH concerts founded the San Francisco Funk Festival based upon Vincent's academic work to place the musical genre in a societal and artistic context.[6]
Vincent has appeared on television documentaries involvingblack music andculture, including multiple episodes ofUnsung. In 2013, Vincent released his second book,Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music (Chicago Review Press 2013).
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