The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...

June 22, 2024 marked the return of the Stone Soul Music and Food Festival in Richmond, Virginia, following a five-year hiatus of the venerable event. Soul, funk, and R&B are the heartbeat of America.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Sly Stone didn’t just create music—he built a whole universe out of rhythm, rebellion, and radical honesty. His songs shook up the airwaves, fused genres, and broke every rule while ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With President Donald Trump waging war on the arts, via his control of the Kennedy Center and his ongoing attacks on museums ...

In a newly published book, CU Boulder Professor Reiland Rabaka delves into the culture and sound of music’s ‘best-kept secret’ Barely two months into the ‘70s, Funkadelic—led by George Clinton, ...

Though New Orleans’ jazz legacy is a well-documented and widely recognized phenomenon, local funk pioneers, for one reason or another, are not acknowledged nearly as much as their musical predecessors ...

Bowling Green State University celebrates an American original musical genre with the Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference April 25-26, 2025. A two-day event packed with guest speakers and a ...

The track was famously called an 'exploration of the dark side of psychedelia' by 'Rolling Stone.' ...