If there’s one song that embodies James Brown’s influence on funk, it’s “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine.” Released in 1970, this track is all about rhythm. Brown’s command ...

1," Brown acted as a cultural leader, writing hit songs calling for Black pride. As a progenitor of funk music ... owned by James Brown National Museum of African American History and Culture The ...

All the time I spent with P-Funk and James Brown, I always seen everybody else ... Funk is making something out of nothing. On your 1977 song “The Pinocchio Theory,” you sang, “Don’t ...

In early, plaintive songs ... James Brown. He died in 2006. The imperatives of biography are to record, to correct and to carve out historical significance, and Smith’s lively account succeeds ...