A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that ...

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By the 1980s, funk’s influence extended into breaking, a foundational element of hip-hop dance, where dancers incorporated ...

Funk music has been around since the 1960s, developing out of gospel, R&B and soul, with a distinct emphasis on “syncopated bass lines and steady, infectious drum grooves,” according to one ...

Filmmakers Stanley Nelson Jr. and Nicole London didn’t want to do a typical documentary on funk music. What they made is a fun, interesting, entertaining ride through the genre.

And funky Oakland collective Digital Underground’s “Humpty Dance” (sampling Parliament’s “Let’s Play House”) still gets play to this day. Funk also found its way to other hip-hop ...

Today’s charts are dominated by plastic dance pop that feels like it’s been assembled by an AI bot. I can’t help but wonder: Why did funk music lose its popularity? And did we lose something ...

But that’s an awfully academic way of putting it. The most important thing: Funk makes you want to dance. We Want the Funk!, a new documentary premiering Tuesday night on PBS stations ...