Funk used to be a bad word.
As with most other American music forms.
It took quite a while for Funk to gain the respect it deserves.
What\'s more, for those who free themselves, Funk is a positive state of consciousness that brings together mind, body and soul in a quasi-spiritual experience of mesmerizing intensity.
Now, Funk is a pervasive style of music that has earned its rightful place alongside such other aural American art forms such as folk, blues, jazz and rock \'n roll.
That was then.
Funk used to be a bad word