I was showing a musician friend of mine some songs I’m listening to, and he told me: you like funk music.
I do have an idea of what kind of music is funk, and I have heard of James Brown before. However, I couldn’t say what the distinguishing features of funk music are. I have no background in music or musical theory at all.
So – what exactly defines funk music?
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Very simply, the music was created to be danceable…
My ear perks up to the bass being different and my brain says funky music. As in, play that funky music white boy.
To quote the interwebs-
Funk refers to a style of aggressive urban dance music driven by hard syncopated bass lines and drumbeats and accented by any number of instruments involved in rhythmic counterplay, all working toward a “groove”
Funk music is a style of music that emerged at the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s. Musical artist James Brown is responsible for formulating the idea of a specific rhythm style within funk. He conducted his band to play on the first, or one, beat of music. This style of conducting emphasized the first music beat in a measure. James Brown and his band The Famous Flames are deemed the originators of the funk beat that played at the end of the 1950s and into the early 1960s.
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