FUNK (music/everything)
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- emecks0
reaction, sorry if I appear to be a little harsh...
what is it you understand by "funk"??
Funk is an extremely wide field and as such it's difficult to say that this is or that isn't "funk"....
James Brown took Gospel and made it into Soul which he then took and made into Funk.. the advent of this wwas the seminal "Papa's got a brand new bag"
What you must also realise though is that you also had people coming from Jazz and converging.
So already there are two influences shaping what is and what isn't funk.... the Jazzers and the Gospel singers.
Add to that people such as the Bar Kays and Rare Earth who come from a rock background and it get's further confused...
So you see funk is much more a feeling than a definite style. Or indeed a way of life..
If you're a funker you will feel it, sounds like you might be.