offering his personal interactions with funk. He grew up with it and was in an ideal position to study its growth and impact. After the quick historical backdrop – post-war evolution of a new ...

Sponsor Message That's the sentiment expressed early and often in We Want the Funk!, a loving and detailed new documentary from PBS' Independent Lens series, now available on PBS' app and YouTube.

A new documentary explores the history and influence of funk music and its connection to Detroit. The Independent Lens documentary “WE WANT THE FUNK!” traces the history and influence of funk ...

Funk broke borders, making its way to England with David Bowie, Talking Heads and Elton John. Then, it gave rise to something entirely new through Fela Kuti. How did you begin to gather all of the ...

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 every block seemed to have a funk band.

The most important thing: Funk makes you want to dance. We Want the Funk!, a new documentary premiering Tuesday night on PBS stations, will have you moving in your recliner, on your living room ...

but he also revolutionized funk music because he would play the bass on the synthesizer. Clinton: Which was a new sound that Emerson, Lake, and Palmer and King Crimson used in rock and roll.

NEW YORK (AP) — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular ...

Joining Sly & The Family Stone in 1967, he made his new style the defining sound of funk. Vulfpeck bassist Joe Dart has solidified himself as one of the most exciting bass players of a new ...

"Once you get the funk out there, it's not going back. You can't put it back in the box," says filmmaker Stanley Nelson. His new Independent Lens... 'You know it when you feel it': A new ...