Funk music was transforming rapidly in the 1970s, and by 1976, many hits already felt timeless because they sounded like the ...

(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 ...

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 Ohio Players is one of many funk groups from Dayton that took off in the 1970s and '80s. In the mid-1960s, James Brown was creating a new style of music — funk. Instead of turning elaborate ...

Watergate had shaken the nation. Gerald Ford was completing the third year of what would have been Richard Nixon’s second presidential term, had he not resigned in disgrace. The Vietnam War was ...

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, ...

The Detroit Opera will showcase some of funk maestro George Clinton 's and P-Funk's greatest hits this weekend, performed by ...

Lost Lake Lounge is about to overflow with funk. Wild Love Tigress will blow the club’s lid off with its signature classic funk on Saturday, January 18, when the Denver band takes the stage to ...

“Symphonic PFunk: Celebrating the Music of Parliament Funkadelic" will take over the Detroit Opera House on Jan. 31. The concert will cap three days of George Clinton celebration in Detroit. Other ...