Last week, the fire district released a lip sync video set to the tune of the popular song “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson, featuring Bruno Mars. The video, posted to YouTube May 1, features many ...

“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 wanted it to be funky. We wanted it to reflect the funk." With co-director and co-producer Nicole London, Nelson crafted a story that reaches back to the 1950s and '60s, when pop music was more ...

“Imagine if you’re a kid who is 12 and somebody says to you, ‘You can play this saxophone ... of funk music persist in hip-hop, contemporary jazz and in school marching bands. “Uptown ...

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Show more Lopa Kothari curates a selection of roots-based music from around the world, including a previously unreleased recording of Cameroonian songsmith Manu Dibango performing live in ...

“We Want The Funk!,” a journey through the history of funk music, premieres at 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 8 on ThinkTV/PBS. Directed by Stanley Nelson and Nicole London, the film chronicles funk ...

Diary of a Mad Band remains an American R&B classic from Jodeci. Uptown Records unveiled the record just before Christmas 1993 on December 21, and it gifted the world the historic first ...

The 1960s was a melting pot of musical innovation, with multiple genres forming, growing and progressing simultaneously in often completely different directions. Funk music started to emerge in ...