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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GRETNA, La. (WGNO) — The 31st annual Gretna Fest is this upcoming weekend. Performers like Sam Hunt, Collective Soul, Trombone ...

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 ...

Musician George Clinton arrives at the 1st Annual Black Music Action Coalition’s Music in Action Awards held at the 1 Hotel West Hollywood on September 23, 2021 in West Hollywood. (Photo by Xavier ...

PBS’s Independent Lens series tackles the history and cultural impact of funk music in its latest 90-minute documentary, We Want the Funk! The film, co-directed by Stanley Nelson and Nicole London, ...

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, ...

Dayton’s legendary funk roots will soon be celebrated, revived and reimagined by the next generation of this city’s talent. From Dayton with Funk, a multimedia event hosted at the Brightside on Sept.