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Public broadcasting is your friend. And local stations such as PBS SoCal (a union of KOCE and KCET) and LAUSD's KLCS, KCRW, ...
Think about someone you’d call a friend. What’s it like when you’re with them? Do you feel connected? Like the two of you are in sync? In today’s story, we’ll meet two friends who have always been in ...
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, ...
Dimensions (mm) 114.50 x 60.70 x 11.20 135.00 x 62.00 x 10.00 ...
It was sometime in the latter part of the 1960s that R&B gave way to soul and, by extension, funk. It wasn't a scene so much at first as it was a grouping of like-minded artists taking their music to ...
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 ...
Bowling Green State University’s Department of Popular Culture and WBGU-PBS will be presenting the coolest of cool conferences – The Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference – April 25-26 in the BGSU ...
During the 1960s and ‘70s, funk music flourished in Indianapolis. Local bands like The Highlighters, Amnesty, The Moonlighters, Billy Ball and The Upsetters, and The Presidents packed nightclubs clubs ...