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How to Look for Old School Funk Music

Funk music is everywhere -- from the syncopated grooves of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, to the warm and sultry rhythms of Jill Scott. It is the soundtrack of the black power movement of the 1970s, and it continues to inspire an ethnocentric consciousness among all ethnicities in the Untied States. Funk is a music that celebrates the freedom of expression; whether you are Black, White, Asian or Latino, funk music honors who you are, where you came from and where you are going.

Instructions

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      Search the music catalog of Amazon.com. Type "funk music" in the search box and browse through the anthology box sets.

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      Visit soulandfunkmusic.com. This is an online music database that includes over 5,000 artists, 10,000 albums and 86,000 songs.

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      Research original funk artists: James Brown, Parliament, Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone. Browse through their discographies.

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      Ask musicians if they have any funk music collections. Musicians are a great resource for audio and sheet music.

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      Call your local high school and ask the marching band director to share everything she knows about funk music and where to find it.

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      Listen to blaxploitation film soundtracks from the 1970s, including Superfly, Shaft and Foxy Brown. Funk is the essential music of blaxploitation cinema.

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