African American Music History pt -5 James Brown is the undisputed “Godfather of Funk.”
July 10, 2011
The “Hardest Working Man in Show Business”. Often cueing his band with the command, “On the one!” Brown changed the rhythmic emphasis from the two-four beat of traditional soul music to a one-three emphasis previously associated with white musical forms – but with a hard-driving, brassy swing. This pumping, one-three beat became a signature of…
