"We don't have to play those American funk beats. "We can take that structure and make it more polyrhythmic and really make it jump." ♪ Paka, buh, buh, paka, tka, um ♪ ♪ Paka, buh, buh, paka, tupaka, ...

Some of the best funk songs of all time sound just as fresh as they did when they came out decades ago, which is beyond rare.

Brazilian funk, at least out on the radical, thrilling, ear-frying, brain-scrambling fringes, is primarily a producer’s genre ...

This ‘Independent Lens’ presentation focuses on the rise of funk in the 1960s and ’70s, highlighting its place in black music and politics.