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Article: Pop: Tales from the funky side of town In the Sixties and Seventies, the words `funk' and `soul' defined the spirit of black American music. The words still exist today, but can anyone rightfully claim them?
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 16, 2000
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"You'd be surprised how time can change the meaning of a word,"
rasped the black comedian, Redd Foxx, during a performance at the
Apollo Theatre in 1975, before adding: "When I was a kid `funky'
didn't have nothing to do with music. See, `funky' was just plain
`funky'. `Funky' was grandma's bloomers and grandpa's long drawers...
That was funky!"
For centuries the word "funk" or "funky" was frequently connected
with a rank, fetid smell. As early as 1623, a sailor used the term
while describing the stench on board a ship: "Betwixt the decks there
can hardlie a man catch his breathe by reason there ariseth such a
funke in the night that it causes putrefaction of blood."
But from the 1950s ...
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