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 ...

This is FRESH AIR. In the 1970s, influential musicians such as Ornette Coleman began combining free jazz and electric funk. Three notable vets of free funk bands periodically team up to get ...

The upcoming funk film, which has not yet been given an official title, will be directed by Bill Condon and also produced by Eddie Murphy via his own production company. George Clinton himself will ...

Herbie Hancock began in the true funk style, but over the years he turned to commercial music, as we saw. Chick Corea belongs to the same class, but he took a different jazz-rock route via Latin ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Funk music artists with ties to Dayton have connections to thousands of songs, leaving behind a proud history of funk music in the city. Dayton is known as the funk capital of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) George Clinton is a mastermind of funk, an architect of psychedelic grooves, and an innovator whose influence stretches far beyond his Parliament-Funkadelic legacy. Since the late ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The Funk Music Hall of Fame and Exhibition Center has found a new home. It’s been nearly four years since the Funk Center closed its doors, but now, their permanent home will be ...

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, ...

It might come as a surprise to non-Brazilians that the trailblazing pop star Anitta first started her career as an MC. In Brazil, this means you’re a baile funk singer. Born in Rio suburbs, the MC ...

On Thursday, Oct. 14, the city of Dayton will be unveiling a new name for a street downtown to honor its funk music heritage. Stone Street will now be named Land of Funk Way. This new name honors ...