A 60-year-old high school dance teacher in Canada has left her students with one final lesson before retiring. Shirley Clements went out with a bang, nailing a hip-hop routine to Bruno Mars' hit song, ...

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I’m in a small red dressing room at the Triple Rock with Bonde do Rolê, the band that sits in the eye of the baile funk (pronounced “buy-lay funkee”) hurricane that is making its way from steamier ...

Not all funk is created equal. You might think any old funk tune will make you want to get up and dance, but I don’t think that’s true. Now, I’m not here to point out bad funk as I’d rather keep ...

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Gotta have that funk, yo. Yale art historian, Robert Farris Thompson, in his 1983 work, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy, traces the origins of the word “funk” to the ...

For their ninth album, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, Glasgow’s Belle and Sebastian veer from their twee refuge into a groove, dance, and funk affair. Producer Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls ...