Our Funk Forefathers, Dare I Frighten You?

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   Funk, the epitome of  music incorporating human psych, soul, and above all...the will to have Fun. This genre's importance in our musical history is displayed through primarily black individuals who came together around the time of what I call, the Last Musical Rennaisance, and transformed their very own identity into an artistic expression. What seperated this style of music From others emerging this time was how it was so heavily influenced by minorities concerned with politics, who shared similar tastes in jazz as well as blues, combining the two American sounds into a fusion that would later become a vehicle for the socially oppressed to reach unto the masses. 

Like the law of what goes up must come down, we see a fast and ironic self destruction of funk music as recording companies oversaturate this music with repetitive loops and quick hooks making it more club accesible and destroying the vast orriginality of the early seventies all in order to make more profit. As this period of music gained mass attention at the end of the 70's, we see the rise of disco, and the ending of a monster genre once known as funk. What made disco so profitable and accessible were once staples of a much more complex and artistic genre of music; then again how can music be artistic if it is fit into catagories or genres?   

That's the beauty of funk, it remained fresh, catchy, orriginal, innovative, and yes even progressive all while still staying close the root sound of jazz and blues fusion.

If you have no knowledge of what funk music is, I am going to take the opportunity to show you because I am so gratefull to have found and have given patience towards my understanding of this music. Allow me to list my favorite funk bands that are indeed progressive; all in hopes you will be curious enough to check out; and I promise satisfaction.

Sly and the Family Stone

James Brown

The Meters

Funkadelic

Parliament

Bootsy Collins

The Horny Horns

Rick James (bitch)

War

If you want any help where to start I can help. I mainly am interested in furthering this discussion with any fellow funkateers or with anyone who wants to chec them out.

These bands have hundreds of hours of music that to me is 100% progressive, and it's time we stopped ignorring it.

I for one want the funk and im gonna do my best to bring it back! Now who's with me!?

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	Funk, the epitome of music incorporating human psych, soul, and above all...the will to have Fun. This genre's importance in our musical history is displayed through primarily black individuals who came together around the time of what I call, the Last Musical Rennaisance, and transformed their very own identity into an artistic expression. What seperated this style of music From others emerging this time was how it was so heavily influenced by minorities concerned with politics, who shared similar tastes in jazz as well as blues, combining the two American sounds into a fusion that would later become a vehicle for the socially oppressed to reach unto the masses. Like the law of what goes up must come down, we see a fast and ironic self destruction of funk music as recording companies oversaturate this music with repetitive loops and quick hooks making it more club accesible and destroying the vast orriginality of the early seventies all in order to make more profit. As this period of music gained mass attention at the end of the 70's, we see the rise of disco, and the ending of a monster genre once known as funk. What made disco so profitable and accessible were once staples of a much more complex and artistic genre of music; then again how can music be artistic if it is fit into catagories or genres? That's the beauty of funk, it remained fresh, catchy, orriginal, innovative, and yes even progressive all while still staying close the root sound of jazz and blues fusion. If you have no knowledge of what funk music is, I am going to take the opportunity to show you because I am so gratefull to have found and have given patience towards my understanding of this music. Allow me to list my favorite funk bands that are indeed progressive; all in hopes you will be curious enough to check out; and I promise satisfaction. Sly and the Family Stone James Brown The Meters Funkadelic Parliament Bootsy Collins The Horny Horns Rick James (bitch) War If you want any help where to start I can help. I mainly am interested in furthering this discussion with any fellow funkateers or with anyone who wants to chec them out. These bands have hundreds of hours of music that to me is 100% progressive, and it's time we stopped ignorring it. I for one want the funk and im gonna do my best to bring it back! Now who's with me!?
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