A Dozen of Funk
By Michelangelo Matos, eMusic Contributor
Funk used to be a bad word. Today, though, it denotes a rhythmic continuum that has, more or less, come to dominate pop music, thanks to the genre's infiltration into everything from hip-hop to electronica. Funk is also a belief system for children of the '70s, the era when George Clinton synthesized the rhythmic developments of James Brown and Sly Stone first with Cream-and-Hendrix-style heavy guitars, then with futuristic synthesizers. He also inspired a fervent… more »