In this decade, the success of funk meant it was also beginning to influence new popular genres. Many early disco songs leaned on the same rhythmic phrasings as funk, and hip hop was spawned ...

*Music is a multi-layered thing, with multiple types for multiple people. Rap, pop, R&B, rock and country. You name it, it’s your cup of sing-along tea. While those genres occupy a lot of space ...

Even if you think you’ve never heard Cymande’s music, you almost certainly have. Maybe it was as key samples in De La Soul’s “Change in Speak” or the title track to the Fugees’ album ...

This rarely heard music - including loads of funk and Moroder-adjacent disco ... where disco was exploded after being born in the clubs of New York City. "Recognizing the futility of banning ...

“Most music producers in Brazil used to be based ... Last year Beyoncé and Kanye West, two American superstars, sampled funk on their new albums. Papatinho, a Brazilian producer who often ...

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 ...

Both the Funk Fest and the reveal show are projects of the Louisiana Music & Heritage Experience, the ambitious music museum slated for the new River District development. Bluegrass and folk ...