Kann mir irgendjemand erklären, was „Funk“ für eine Musikrichtung ist? Was für Instrumente werden verwendet ? Was ist der Unterschied zu Jazz oder Soul?
Danke und viele Grüße,
Julian
Hi Julian!
"Funk is a vigorous African American style of music developed mainly by James Brown and his band members (especially Maceo and Melvin Parker) on the one hand and groups like The Meters on the other hand. In the 1970s, George Clinton developed a new kind of funk he termed P Funk. Other prominent representatives of the genre in the 1970s: Bootsy Collins, Larry Graham, Ohio Players, The Commodores, War, Earth, Wind and Fire, Mass Production, Slave, Lakeside, and many more. In the 1980s, funk lost some of its audience as bands became more commercial and music more electronic. Today, hip hop artists regularly sample old funk tunes, sometimes for the purpose of waking them up to new recognition.
Funk can be best recognized by syncopated rhythm, thick bass line (often based on „on one“ beat), razor-sharp rhythm guitars, yowlish vocals (as that of Cameo or Bar-Kays), strong rhythm-oriented brass section, percussion instruments, happiness in style, African tones, dance floor audience, and strong jazzy influences (e.g. as in Herbie Hancock, George Duke, Eddie Harris, and others).
Disco music owes a great deal to funk.
Funk music was exported back to Africa in the mid to late 1960s, and melded with African singing and rhthyms to form Afrobeat."
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Definition des AMG
Hallo, Julian!
Dem Wikipedia-Artikel von Christoph möchte ich noch die Definition des All Music Guide hinzufügen:
Named after a slang word for „stink,“ funk was indeed the rawest, most primal form of R&B, surpassing even Southern soul in terms of earthiness. It was also the least structured, often stretching out into extended jams, and the most Africanized, built on dynamic, highly syncopated polyrhythms. As such, it originally appealed only to hardcore R&B audiences. The groove was the most important musical element of funk — all the instruments of the ensemble played off of one another to create it, and worked it over and over. Deep electric bass lines often served as main riffs, with an interlocking web of short, scratchy guitar chords and blaring horns over the top. Unlike nearly every form of R&B that had come before it, funk didn’t confine itself to the 45-rpm single format and the classic verse/chorus song structure. Funk bands were just as likely to repeat a catchy chant or hook out of the blue, and to give different song sections equal weight, so as not to disrupt the groove by building to a chorus-type climax. In essence, funk allowed for more freedom and improvisation, and in that respect it was similar to what was happening around the same time in blues-rock, psychedelia, and hard rock (in fact, Jimi Hendrix was a major inspiration for funk guitar soloists). The roots of funk lay in James Brown’s post-1965 soul hits, particularly „Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag“ (1965) and „Cold Sweat“ (1967). Sly & the Family Stone, who started out as a soul band influenced by rock and psychedelia, became a full-fledged (albeit pop-savvy) funk outfit with 1969’s Stand!. However, the record that officially ushered in the funk era was James Brown’s epochal „Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine.“ The arrangement was spare, the groove hard-hitting, and Brown’s lyrics were either stream-of-consciousness slogans or wordless noises. Brown followed it with more records over the course of 1970 that revolutionized R&B, and paved the way for the third artist of funk’s holy trinity, George Clinton. Clinton’s Parliament and Funkadelic outfits made funk the ultimate party music, not just with their bizarre conceptual humor, but their sheer excess — huge ensembles of musicians and dancers, all jamming on the same groove as long as they possibly could. Thanks to Sly, Brown, and Clinton, many new and veteran R&B acts adopted funk as a central style during the '70s. Funk gradually became smoother as disco came to prominence in the mid- to late '70s, and lost much of its distinguishing earthiness. However, it had a major impact on jazz (both fusion and soul-jazz), and became the musical foundation of hip-hop. Thanks to the latter, funk enjoyed a renaissance during the '90s, especially among white audiences who rushed to explore its original classics.
Gruß!
Christopher
Und noch die von LAUT
_Funk…ist schwarz, eckig und tanzbar. Ursprünglich ist Funk die akustische Reflexion schwarzer Mentalität. „It´s funky“. In der Umgangssprache entwickelt sich der Begriff in den 60ern zum Modewort für alles was unverfälschten Pfiff hat. In den 70ern etabliert sich Funk als Musikalischer Stil und treibt verschiedene Blüten: Funk-Rock, Funk-Jazz, P-Funk, Fusion, Free Funk etc. Daran sind die Headhunters, James Brown (sex machine), George Clinton und die Average White Band nicht ganz unbeteiligt. Ab jetzt dürfen auch Weiße funky sein, wie Mitte der 80er etwa Level 42.
Getragen wird das Ganze vom dominanten Baß, auf dem sich schließlich eine eigene Spieltechnik entwickelt: das slappen. Die Saiten werden nicht mehr gezupft, sondern mit dem Daumen hart angeschlagen, auch anreißen ist erlaubt (Level 42 hören!). Dazu gesellen sich scharfe Bläsersätze, und eine äußerst rhythmische Gitarre.
Hörtips:
70er: George Clinton, Headhunters
80er: Tower of Power, Level 42
90er: Me´shell N´degeocello_
würde sagen die geilste music der welt
fals du solche music suchst dann hier ein paar tips:
curtis mayfield (move on up, superfly etc.)
isaac hayes (Shaft ect.)
Stax funk
shaolin soul Episode. I + II
oder schau mal hier