For those of a certain age, the words “funk music” bring to mind some of the great acts of the 20th century’s second half. James Brown. Sly and the Family Stone. Ohio Players. The Isley Brothers.

Instead of emphasizing chord changes and melody, funk accentuated heavily syncopated beats and rhythmic and repetitive bass ...

It’s common knowledge at this point that the history of funk music is rooted in Dayton, but what about the future? To answer that question, 2 NEWS weekend anchor Kayla Farris took a trip to City Day ...

Performers like Zapp and Morris Day will take the stage tomorrow so we can hear some of their classic hits. The production company, “Fame Productions,” started this show to give people a chance to ...

The Ohio Players is one of many funk groups from Dayton that took off in the 1970s and '80s. In the mid-1960s, James Brown was creating a new style of music — funk. Instead of turning elaborate ...

Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and proto-rap group The Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...

“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 music from ...

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