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Well, it's funky. But beyond that, I don't know if I can describe ... "I'm in this other space here. I'm in the funk." James Brown: ♪ I got soul ♪ Brown: The Black Power movement is not about ...

"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 ...

Bootsy Collins, who released a new album, is the type of person who can illustrate an idea as if reading it from a tome of spells.

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

Since joining James Brown’s band ... my image. I got a chance to convince them that we crazy, but not that crazy. “Dude, this is just a look.” It’s like Superman: He does the Clark Kent ...

Legendary studio musician Marcus Miller picks up his bass guitar and thumps out a funky, percussive rhythm. Which then builds into a full-on groove by James Brown ... "Well, it's funky," says ...

And then the music lost its groove ... the birth of funk music to one person: James Brown. The Godfather of Soul, who once said, “I’ve only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a ...

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