Rod Temperton, whose contributions as a songwriter, composer and producer in the post-disco era of R&B in the 1980s, and played a crucial role in Michael Jackson’s classic recordings, passed away ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Dynasty may not have received the same mainstream saturation as some of their R&B and funk contemporaries, but for those who know, their discography is pure gold. Emerging from the ...

Rockists, wallflowers and squares of all stripes: You may want to stop reading now, because the adults are talking disco. Oft-derided now and throughout the decades, the disco sound is a melange of ...

What do we mean by “dance songs”? Good question. In a sense, any song that ever got any one person moving in any perceptible direction is a dance song. The Beatles made great dance songs — as did ...