Earth, Wind & Fire was a leading force in funk music throughout the ’70s and a consistent presence in the R&B and pop Top 10 for over a decade. They had racked up enough hits by 1978 that one of the ...

Bowling Green State University celebrates an American original musical genre with the Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference April 25-26, 2025. A two-day event packed with guest speakers and a ...

When singer Molly Grace was growing up in Lexington, she did every performing arts hobby she could get her hands on. “I did theater in school, I did community theater, I did choir, I did a cappella, I ...

Funk allowed Black musicians and their audiences to shapeshift and speak truth to power—even while speaking in tongues. But as Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s documentary WE WANT THE FUNK! reveals, ...