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Stanley Nelson and Nicole London talk the roots of funk music and freedom. We Want The Funk! is now available on PBS.

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Grammy Award-winning funk legends Kool & the Gang become the newest announced show headed to Roanoke Island Festival Park for ...

P BS’s Independent Lens series tackles the history and cultural impact of funk music in its latest 90-minute documentary, We ...

Funk music was a bold sound that perfectly encapsulated post-civil rights Black Pride. 'We Want The Funk!' tells the story of ...

Legendary studio musician Marcus Miller picks up his bass guitar and thumps out a funky, percussive rhythm. Which then builds ...

is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, soul, and early jazz roots, to its rise into the public consciousness. Featuring James Brown's dynamism, the ...

The Godfather of Soul’s politics were a reflection of himself: a Black man who’d risen to superstardom out of the Jim Crow South. James Brown was the summation of Black American culture in ...

It didn’t take long for director Nicole London to jump on board the documentary, “We Want the Funk!” “(Co-director) Stanley (Nelson) and I had worked on a documentary on Miles Davis about ...

This ‘Independent Lens’ presentation focuses on the rise of funk in the 1960s and ’70s, highlighting its place in black music and politics. John Anderson ...

We knew we didn’t want it to be a travelogue through funk music where it’s just like James Brown, you know, Sly Stone. George Clinton. We didn’t want it to be a list. “But we also knew ...