Funk Flashcards
1
Q
What is Funk?
A
James Brown-principal innovator
related to disco
2
Q
Decade?
A
late 60s
3
Q
Features?
A
fast tempo easy to dance to-groove-based music-riff based-heavily syncopated shares harmony features with jazz richly coloured extended harmonies chromatic movement bass/electric guitar based on pentatonic scales clarinet,drums,horns,trumpets,saxophone side-step with use of chords
4
Q
Examples of Artists and Bands
A
James Brown-I got you
Chaka Khan-Ain’t Nobody
Stevie Wonder-Superstition
