FUNK (music/everything)
FUNK (music/everything)
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From the seminal African scholar Robert Farris Thompson of Yale:
"The slang term `funky' ... seems to derive from the Ki-Kongo lu-fuki, `bad body odor.' ... Both jazzmen and Bakongo use funky and lu-fuki to praise persons for the integrity of their art, for having `worked out' to achieve their aims.... This Kongo sign of exertion is identified with the positive energy of a person. Hence `funk' in American jazz parlance can mean earthiness, a return to fundamentals."
Rock that Yale Funk!