Bowling Green State University celebrates an American original musical genre with the Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference April 25-26, 2025. A two-day event packed with guest speakers and a ...

Sharon Davis Gratto championed global music and Dayton’s funk music heritage during her 16 years at the University of Dayton, founding UD’s World Music Choir, hosting two Dayton Funk symposia and ...

With President Donald Trump waging war on the arts, via his control of the Kennedy Center and his ongoing attacks on museums nationwide, the power of artistic resistance has been on my mind. And a new ...

DAYTON — Dayton isn’t only the birthplace of aviation, but is also widely known as the world’s funk music capitol. Dayton is well connected to all the funk groups of the ‘70s and ‘90s. Music group ...

The Ohio Players is one of many funk groups from Dayton that took off in the 1970s and '80s. In the mid-1960s, James Brown was creating a new style of music — funk. Instead of turning elaborate ...

On Thursday, Oct. 14, the city of Dayton will be unveiling a new name for a street downtown to honor its funk music heritage. Stone Street will now be named Land of Funk Way. This new name honors ...

A new documentary explores the history and influence of funk music and its connection to Detroit. The Independent Lens documentary “WE WANT THE FUNK!” traces the history and influence of funk music ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) George Clinton is a mastermind of funk, an architect of psychedelic grooves, and an innovator whose influence stretches far beyond his Parliament-Funkadelic legacy. Since the late ...