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How Funk Became Funk

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid 60s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony, and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground. Funk music was a major influence [...]