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Funk music is not meant to be listened to alone ... Here were White people stepping into our world to let us know that our culture mattered. For brief moments onstage, it seemed like we could ...
Bowling Green State University’s Department of Popular Culture and WBGU-PBS will be presenting the coolest of cool ...
We Want the Funk! is a vibrant documentary that celebrates the revolutionary sound and cultural legacy of 1970s funk music.​ Directed by Stanley Nelson and Nicole London, the film premiered on PBS’s ...
An ever-expanding circle of pop music and pop culture would fall under its spell. Funk was a natural precursor of hip hop. But there’s so much more than a mere tracing of history and song in We ...
Brazilian singer Anitta has achieved another global milestone after Billboard recognized her for popularizing Brazilian funk.
The BGSU School of Cultural and Critical Studies and WBGU-PBS are bringing on the funk next weekend when they host a popular ...
WFYI recently hosted a screening of the new PBS documentary WE WANT THE FUNK! at the Kan-Kan Cinema. The film explores the ...
Through it all, We Want the Funk! presents the music as a primary expression of Black culture that endures — just like Black people have endured. "We're not looking at the funk like [a trend that dies ...
Funk music literally instructs you on how to move ... DeFrantz: There is this rise of something we call leisure culture. Suddenly, there is this idea that young people could have their own ...
Through it all, We Want the Funk! presents the music as a primary expression of Black culture that endures — just like Black people have endured. "We're not looking at the funk like [a trend ...