In 1911 Casimir Funk, a Pole, proposed the name vitamine ... with Fuller’s earth all its anti-neuritic power (power to cure beriberi, the chief characteristic of Vitamin B) is removed, though ...

“The music was playing, everybody was happy, and some funk song was on. “Some of the people who’d put money in ‘Miles’ said, ‘Oh, man, this ‘Miles’ is great,’” Nelson remembers.

The syncopated story of funk music, from its roots to the explosion of '70s urban funk and beyond. WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African ...

Funk allowed Black musicians and their audiences to shapeshift and speak truth to power—even while speaking in tongues. But as Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s documentary WE WANT THE FUNK!

Gabriela Vallim reflects on the booming interest in baile funk in the UK, and explains the complex social history behind the Brazilian sound and why it's important to recognise its impact as a tool of ...

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

In the 1940s, a watercolor painter from the United States, DeWitt Peters, moved to Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Two hours of the strongest, stankiest, uncut fonk anywhere on the airwaves, hosted by Rickey Vincent.