Funk

The pioneers of funk were revolutionaries who created a musical genre that broke rules and crossed musical, class, and racial boundaries. The interracial and intergender group Sly and the Family Stone from San Francisco led the way by redefining the direction of black popular music. This self-contained group (members sang and played instruments) introduced the technology from rock (wah-wah pedal, fuzz box, echo chamber, vocal distortion, and so on) to the tradition. They also fused a blues-rock...