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    Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

  2. Funk is a type of music from the United States that was developed in the 1960s by African American musicians and singers such as James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, George Clinton and The Meters. Funk music emphasizes the rhythm of the music. Funk music is dance music that mixes rhythm and blues music with soul music.

  3. Funk is a musical style advanced primarily by African-American artists like James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone in the late 1960s, and further developed in the 1970s by other notable performers such as Kool and the Gang, Parliament/Funkadelic and Stevie Wonder . Funk’s definitive musical traits include dynamic syncopated rhythms driven ...

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  5. Aug 18, 2023 · A Beginners Guide. What is funk music? Discover its groovy basslines, legendary artists, and what makes it irresistibly danceable.

  6. Funk music can be thought of as a “funky mix” of soul music, bebop, hard bop, blues, R & B, and Afro- Cuban rhythms absorbed and reconstituted in New Orleans. Named after a slang word for “stink,” funk was indeed the rawest, most hardcore, most “black” form of R & B, surpassing even Southern R & B in terms of earthiness.

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