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Deep funk

Subgenre of funk music

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 15, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Deep funk is a subgenre of funk music which features a "hard, lean" sound and emphasis on groove, improvisation, and musicianship over traditional songwriting. The term is also used to describe rare funk recordings sought out by collectors and DJs. Artists such as James Brown and the Meters were basic reference points for the style.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Deep funk” is subgenre of funk music. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Deep, funk and Subgenre, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 55-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Deep, funk and Subgenre is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “subgenre of funk music” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 15, 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Deep funk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.