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American R&B, soul and funk band
Kool & the Gang is an American R&B, soul and funk band formed in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1964. Its founding members include brothers Robert "Kool" Bell and Ronald Bell, Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, Robert "Spike" Mickens, Charles Smith, George "Funky" Brown, Woodrow "Woody" Sparrow and Ricky Westfield. They have undergone numerous changes in personnel and have explored many musical styles throughout their history, including jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, funk, disco, rock and pop music. The group changed their name several times. Settling on Kool & the Gang, the group signed to De-Lite Records and released their debut album Kool and the Gang in 1969. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Kool & the GangA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The Afropessimist Never Drinks the Kool-Aid of Black Enlightened Progress: An Interview with Frank B. Wilderson IIIInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Game Counselor's Answer Book for Nintendo PlayersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Finding the Kool Mixx: how Brown & Williamson used music marketing to sell cigarettesCited 76 times
- Go sideways: Robert "Kool" BellA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Ronald Bell (musician)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Adjective Deliberate misspelling of cool.
Verb To look; to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Finding the Kool Mixx: how Brown & Williamson used music marketing to sell cigarettes
Kosmochloric Ca‐rich pyroxenes and FeO‐rich olivines (Kool grains) and associated phases in Stardust tracks and chondritic porous interplanetary dust particles: Possible precursors to FeO‐rich type II chondrules in ordinary chondrites
Brimful of agitation, authenticity and appropriation: Madonna's 'Asian Kool'
On-line nuclear orientation of Au isotopes at KOOL
Artificial pumping errors in the Kool–Parker scaling model of soil moisture hysteresis
Size-specific aspects of the foraging ecology of the southern oyster drill Stramonita haemastoma (Kool 1987)
“Come Up to the Kool Taste”: African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthols
Beyond “safe”: Chilean “Kool” routes to school address social determinants of health
🆕 Influential since 2022
The Afropessimist Never Drinks the Kool-Aid of Black Enlightened Progress: An Interview with Frank B. Wilderson III
Efficiency of counter flow heat exchange in copper tube using APISN and XTRA KOOL oils
Drinking his own Kool-Aid: Frank Miller’s graphic novel 300 (1998) and the slippery slope from history to myth to propaganda
VALIDATION OF THE KOOL AND PARKER CONSTITUTIVE MODEL IN HYDRUS-2D: DEPTH-DEPENDENT HYDRAULIC HYSTERESIS AND DRAINAGE DYNAMICS IN UNSATURATED SOILS
Aplikasi Pencatatan Akuntansi Kas Kecil Metode Imprest Fund Berbasis Web Pada CV. Auto Kool Prima Cirebon
📚 Books worth reading
Game Counselor's Answer Book for Nintendo PlayersThe Game Counselor, Inc. · 1991- 📕Kas mäletad?Esta Härm · 2003
- 📕Tallinna pimedate kool, 1883-1914Aldo Kals · 1988
- 📕De Knecht · 1978
- 📕Isaac Kool (Cool or Cole) and Catherine Serven married Oct. 15, 1764 at Tappan, Rockland (then part of Orange) Co., N.YCole, David · 1967
SnowboardingPhil Kettle · 2005
All or nothingPhil Kettle · 2005
Mountain bikingPhil Kettle · 2005
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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- James "J.T." Taylor James "JT" Warren Taylor (born August 16, 1953) is an American singer who achieved fame as the lead singer of Kool & the Gang between 1979 and 1988. Taylor…
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- State of Affairs (album) State of Affairs is the twentieth studio album by the band Kool & the Gang, released in 1996 following a four-year gap between albums. It marked the return…