Who Wants The Funk? We Want The Funk! On Doc Talk Podcast With Stanley Nelson & Nicole London

Who Wants The Funk? We Want The Funk! On Doc Talk Podcast With Stanley Nelson & Nicole London

Directors Stanley Nelson and Nicole London discuss their new documentary We Want the Funk! on Deadline's Doc Talk podcast.

New PBS documentary explores funk music’s revolutionary roots

“We Want the Funk!” shows how funk music fueled a pro-Black resistance in the face of racist repression, and may offer some lessons in fighting Trumpism.

What happened to the funk?

A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that packed dance floors. John Blake says that today’s pop music, largely stitched together in digital snippets, lacks that communal spirit.

Who Wants The Funk? ‘We Want The Funk!’ On Doc Talk Podcast With Stanley Nelson & Nicole London

Funk music has been around since the 1960s, developing out of gospel, R&B and soul, with a distinct emphasis on “syncopated bass lines and steady, infectious drum grooves,” according to one description. But that’s an awfully academic way of putting it.

GETNOTGOT – jazz-funk quintet at Karamel

GETNOTGOT – jazz-funk quintet at Karamel Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 08/04/2025 - 12:25 3 May 2025, 7.00pm to 10.00pm A soulful jazz-funk quintet rapidly establishing themselves as one of the must-see live bands in the UK. GETNOTGOT create musical landscapes that are fused in the Blue Note heritage with contemporary acid-jazz nuances and a funk-fuelled musical energy. Their debut release came in the form of a 4-track EP in January 2023, where…