Une forme de musique rythmique afro-américaine apparue à la fin des années 1960, mélangeant la musique soul, le soul jazz et le rhythm and blues dans la lignée du hard bop.
genere musicale di origine afroamericana, nato negli Stati Uniti alla fine degli anni sessanta, che propone i tratti vocali e strumentali del jazz e del blues in forma ballabile
funk (a genre of popular music derived from soul music) · funk carioca (Brazilian music genre derived from Miami bass) · a particular song or composition of funk carioca
köken: From English funk (“foul or unpleasant smell; funk music”), via dialectal French funquer, funquier (“to smoke, reek”), from Vulgar Latin fūmicāre, an alteration of Latin fūmigāre (“to smoke, fumigate”), from fūmus (“smoke”). Doublet of fumo.