<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> Musicians </Li> <Li> psychedelic soul </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> Musicians </Li> <Li> psychedelic soul </Li> </Ul> <P> Funk is a music genre that originated in African - American communities in the mid-1960s when African - American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B). Funk de-emphasizes melody and chord progressions used in other related genres and brings a strong rhythmic groove of a bass line played by an electric bassist and a drum part played by a drummer to the foreground . Like much of African - inspired music, funk typically consists of a complex groove with rhythm instruments playing interlocking grooves . Funk uses the same richly colored extended chords found in bebop jazz, such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths, or dominant seventh chords with altered ninths . </P> <P> Funk originated in the mid-1960s, with James Brown's development of a signature groove that emphasized the downbeat--with heavy emphasis on the first beat of every measure ("The One"), and the application of swung 16th notes and syncopation on all bass lines, drum patterns, and guitar riffs . Other musical groups, including Sly and the Family Stone, the Meters, and Parliament - Funkadelic, soon began to adopt and develop Brown's innovations . While much of the written history of funk focuses on men, there have been notable funk women, including Chaka Khan, Labelle, Lyn Collins, Brides of Funkenstein, Klymaxx, Mother's Finest, and Betty Davis . </P>

When approximately did the genre of funk surface