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funk
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Funk
Funk
is a
music genre
that originated in the mid- to late
1960s
when
African American
musicians created a
rhythmic
,
danceable
new form of music through a mixture of
soul music
,
jazz
, and
rhythm and blues
(R&B). Funk de-emphasizes
melody
and
harmony
and brings a strong
rhythmic
groove
of
electric bass
and drums to the foreground. Funk songs are often based on an extended
vamp
on a single
chord
, distinguishing them from R&B and soul songs, which are built on complex
chord progressions
. Funk uses the same
extended chords
found in
bebop
jazz, such as
minor chords
with added sevenths and elevenths, or dominant seventh chords with altered ninths.
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