WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage ... Featuring James Brown's dynamism, the extraterrestrial funk of George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic, transformed girl group Labelle, and Fela Kuti's ...

“Because it taught me Black pride.” George Clinton, leader of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective, in the new Independent Lens documentary We Want the Funk! (Firelight Films) In the mid-1960s, George ...

We Want the Funk! is a syncopated voyage ... Featuring James Brown's dynamism, the extraterrestrial funk of George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic, transformed girl group Labelle, and Fela Kuti's ...

“‘What do you want to do next?’ “And so … funk!” he says laughing. “That’s how we started ... older sisters who were really into Parliament Funkadelic. They had those records ...

The most important thing: Funk makes you want to dance. We Want the Funk ... The film includes the insights of Parliament-Funkadelic leader Clinton, as well as Fred Wesley of The J.B.’s ...

Nonfans of hip-hop might find “We Want the Funk!” to be a tale of devolution. As directors Stanley Nelson and Nicole London tell us in this “Independent Lens” presentation on PBS, black ...

The dynamic story of funk ... Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic, transformed girl group Labelle, and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, the story also traces funk's influences on both new wave and hip-hop. We ...

We Want the Funk! covers a lot of ground, from Sly and the Family Stone to Prince, African artists like Fela Kuti, hip hop pioneers like De la Soul and more. It also explores how bands like Clinton's ...

“‘What do you want to do next?’ “And so … funk!” he says laughing. “That’s how we started, and five or six years ... NL: For funk music, I had older sisters who were really into Parliament Funkadelic.