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Rickey Vincent is an American author, historian, and radio host based in the San Francisco Bay Area.Vincent is the author of Funk: The Music, the People and the Rhythm of The One (St. Martin’s Press, 1996), which encompasses the history of funk music, and won the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Award for Music Writing in 1997.
The 1847 fourth edition of Funk's A Compilation of Genuine Church Music was the first publication by Joseph Funk and Sons at Singers Glen. The name was changed to Harmonia Sacra in 1851. The book is still is in use by Mennonites today. The Southern Musical Advocate and Singer's Friend was a 16-page monthly periodical published by Funk from 1859 ...
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
The original publication was a "four-shape" shape note book using the shapes and syllables "faw, sol, law, and mi". Funk designed A Compilation of Genuine Church Music for use in singing schools. It contained 208 pages, including rudiments of music and tunes harmonized for three voices. Funk released a second edition in 1835, and a third in 1842.
Arville Lynn Funk (1929–1990) was a United States lawyer, teacher, author, and an Indiana historian. He was born in Harrison County, Indiana , the son of Herman E. and Elsie McGonigle Funk. He attended public school in Corydon and studied law in New Albany .
The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop is a double-compilation album released on September 4, 2001, in conjunction with the release of book. [3] The album features a compilation of songs by prominent go-go bands and old-school hip hop artist who contributed to the popularity of the genre between the early-80s to the late-1990s.
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Funk & Wagnalls was an American publisher known for its reference works, including A Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1st ed. 1893–5), and the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia (25 volumes, 1st ed. 1912).