Funk

blow up overnight and influence the hip hop music of tomorrow. Of course, hip hop music did not spring out of the blue, but rather it was a newly packaged form of musical delivery that ascended from the music that preceded it. Thus, hip hop was not just a music style that followed funk music, it was directly influenced by this genre and it is a musical descendant of both funk and it is evident through its lyrics, feeling, and recurring themes. Although funk is such a large and diverse genre musically, one of its strongest…

In 1970s america, music grew in a variety genres. Music like hip hop, jazz, soul, and funk started to take notice and it started to take off. Music was a big part of the world about this time. Jazz because very popular in the 1970s. New instruments such as conga, timbale, guiro, and claves, with jazz and classical harmonies played on typical jazz instruments. Armando Anthony Corea is American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer. John McLaughlin was an English guitarist…

Funk music as an expression brought with it a newly packaged music that was capable of fully embracing both the performers’ and audiences energies. Funk emphasized dancing and how it further expressed implicit meanings not always explicitly understood through the lyrics. Funk music opened the door for a particular subculture, black youth, to take their form of dance expression and broadcast it across the United States through the culturally important program Soul Train. In particular, the…

Before the song Uptown Funk would become a cultural phenomenon and win the 58th Annual Grammy for the Best Record of the 2016. The infectious single would change the career of English music producer and DJ Mark Ronson. But, not before proving to be one of Ronson’s most difficult projects. The creation of Uptown Funk would push Ronson to his limits, but ultimately paid off. Ronson is known throughout the music industry for crafting pop hits infused with snapping retro-soul. Ronson’s most…

Funk and Wagnall’s give a universal description of gun control. Afterwards, they go into the issue at federal levels, citing the second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution along with court cases setting precedence and bills enacted. Nonetheless revealing that state and local levels are problematic by the idealism that states and localities are free to enforce their own policies. Finally, pressure from organizations on both sides of the gun control battle makes this a highly contentious political…

Very few famous performers nowadays can integrate showmanship with their music. In the 70’s a musical group by the name of Parliament took the music world by storm with their out of this world appearance and their own rendition of Funk music. Parliament was one of the key pieces in the development of funk music and modern music as well. They created what we know as P-Funk today that was a key element of the foundation of Hip-Hop. For my concert report I analyzed Parliament’s 1976 The MotherShip…

their homelands, they still found ways to connect back to their roots. These ways include music, food, clothes, and language which have shaped the culture of America today. As for music, the United States without the influences of the African American community cannot own music like rock and roll, Hip-Hop, R&B, Blues, and Jazz. Folks music was a way that slave use to express themselves and also communicated with each other.This modern age, the production of music has a relationship with African…

rock music artists ever to be born on this earth. In 1950's it was started and very well hummed by everyone and it was the creation which proved to be rebellious against the traditional kind of music creators and they always criticized it but by the common people it connected very easily and all of them loved it and the music made them swipe of there feet and tempt them to dance and feel the music from there hearts. House The House music has been influenced greatly by other kind of music. The…

The soul boys was a working class youth subculture, which began in the early to mid-70s. The individuals of the soul boy’s subculture consist of white and blacks, which enjoyed soul and funk music. The soul boys is an outcrop of a mod, they are clothes obese, and they are also obese with black music. Also, there were two types of soul boys, the soul boy in the North, usually like the classic soul of the 60s, and the Soul boy in the South enjoyed more of a contemporary soul. Per Paul Hodkinson’s…

His first song in this style was Alligator Boogaloo in 1967. Others joined this style of music until 1975 where disco hit the stage. This brought change to the industry. Another group by Wynton Marsalis brought “acid jazz”. It was not until the 90’s that the jazz-funk re-entered the music industry again. House music, believed to have descended from funk-jazz, which has a more or less basis for dance time and drum beats that are fairly strong and a bass sound characterized as driving. In the…