the genre of funk surfaced approximately in the mid-1960s.
when approximately did the genre of funk surface?
the mid-1960s
funk is a music genre that originated in african-american communities in the mid-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 chord progressions and focuses on a strong rhythmic groove of a bass line played by an electric bassist and a drum part played by a drummer, often at slower tempos than other popular music. like much of african-inspired music, funk typically consists of a complex groove with rhythm instruments playing interlocking grooves that created a "hypnotic" and "danceable feel". funk uses the same richly colored extended chords found in bebop jazz, such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths, or dominant seventh chords with altered ninths and thirteenths.
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according to an interview with dj marlboro in 2003, "dj marlboro believes in which keeping funk discreet to the public, may reduce the amount of exploitation within the genre. "the best time for funk is when people don't know about it, for those of us who are funkateers that is". in relation to the exploitation of funk, he mentioned that people view funk as "an image of women with big butts, you never see the many sides to funk, so people look and they think that funk is pornographic, funk is violent... but funk is all of this, it's violent, romantic, and playful." he embraces the baile funk scene in rio, because he enjoys pleasing the public. it is assumed that individuals that are new to funk genre just assume that baile funk is just associated with pornographic notions. according to an article on rio baile funk: favela booty beats, "baile funk is nothing like that. this is raw, bare-bones, hooky but proudly unmelodic stuff, recorded on the cheap with 808 drum machines, early samplers, and dusty computers. rio baile funk sounds--and feels, really--like a revelation".
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