(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 ...
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 syncopated story of funk music, from its roots to the explosion of '70s urban funk and beyond. Stanley Nelson is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, MacArthur Fellow, and member of the Academy of ...
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 ...
Sharon Davis Gratto championed global music and Dayton’s funk music heritage during her 16 years at the University of Dayton, founding UD’s World Music Choir, hosting two Dayton Funk symposia and ...
Fifty years of hip-hop were celebrated Friday as the 2023 Funk Fest returned for a fifth year to downtown Louisville. The first act of the night, Big Daddy Kane, had just taken the stage as music ...
It’s hard to imagine the course pop music might have taken in the psychedelic ’60s had Sylvester Stewart not emerged at that pivotal moment as the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, a racially ...
Pop vocal trio the Bee Gees performing at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, January, 1979. The 1970s were an eclectic time for music and cultural ...
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