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

Many early disco songs leaned on the same rhythmic phrasings ... effectively disappeared in the technological era of the 80s, funk managed to embrace the synthetic elements, or at least work ...

The 70s and 80s were pivotal decades ... The best-selling album of all time, Thriller revolutionized pop music with its blend ...

bringing new ears to Mtume’s sensual opus “Juicy Fruit,” a funk track which has underpinned over 100 songs, particularly in hip-hop. Mtume might also be the first funk group ever ensnared in ...

The ‘80s and ‘90s brought hip hop ... Miller, whose comment about no sad funk songs appears in the film, tells me that he grew up in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York, where ...