Funk history

Am interested in music history and how the genres I enjoy develop, ive learnt a fair amount over the years about discord/rap/punk/new wave/ska but my one true love FUNK I don’t actually know much but Ive watched some of a good doc that I want to finish

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As black families left the South and to the industrial US Midwest, school programme funding incubated a lot of big funk bands

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David Byrne and David Bowie both directly influenced by funk

Route through gospel all the way to early hip-hop and rap genuinely xplains a lot of what I enjoy in terms of the almost mantra insistence