P BS’s Independent Lens series tackles the history and cultural impact of funk music in its latest 90-minute documentary, We ...

Positive Force's "We Got the Funk" playing] Woman: ♪ All right, y'all, yeah ♪ Mikki Taylor: It's in our DNA. Whether it's music, whether it's fashion, whether it's art, there's always a heavy ...

“We Want the Funk!” shows how funk music fueled a pro-Black resistance in the face of racist repression — and may offer some lessons in fighting Trumpism. By Ja'han Jones With President ...

We Want The Funk ... the world what freedom looks and sounds like. Funk is just one branch of the massive tree that is Black American music. Contrary to the polished, camera-ready acts that ...

Funk music has been around since the 1960s, developing out of gospel, R&B and soul, with a distinct emphasis on "syncopated bass lines and steady, infectious drum grooves," according to one ...

“We Want the Funk!” “(Co-director) Stanley (Nelson) and I had worked on a documentary on Miles Davis about five years ago,” London says. “He had mentioned it at the time and the ball got ...

NL: For funk music, I had older sisters who were really ... James Brown comes at you, and we’ve got to keep this pace up, how do we do it? NL: See it with an audience if you can.

“Soon as we got a hit record, was the same year that [The Beatles ... All of a sudden, that wasn’t our music anymore.” Funk’s status as a joyful, unapologetically Black musical form is emphasized ...

WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, soul, and early jazz roots, to its rise into the public consciousness. Featuring James Brown's ...

Filmmakers Stanley Nelson Jr. and Nicole London didn’t want to do a typical documentary on funk music. What they made is a fun, interesting, entertaining ride through the genre.

This brisk 80-minute documentary is a wall-to-wall commemoration of a genre by the people who love it the most.