How to Look for Old School Funk Music
- 1). Search the music catalog of Amazon.com. Type "funk music" in the search box and browse through the anthology box sets.
- 2). Visit soulandfunkmusic.com. This is an online music database that includes over 5,000 artists, 10,000 albums and 86,000 songs.
- 3). Research original funk artists: James Brown, Parliament, Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone. Browse through their discographies.
- 4). Ask musicians if they have any funk music collections. Musicians are a great resource for audio and sheet music.
- 5). Call your local high school and ask the marching band director to share everything she knows about funk music and where to find it.
- 6). Listen to blaxploitation film soundtracks from the 1970s, including Superfly, Shaft and Foxy Brown. Funk is the essential music of blaxploitation cinema.
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