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Funk rock
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Funk rock is a fusion genre that mixes elements of funk and rock. James Brown and others declared that Little Richard and his mid-1950s road band, the Upsetters, were the first to put the funk in the rock and roll beat, with a biographer stating that their music "spark[ed] the musical transition from fifties rock and roll to sixties funk".

Instance of
Music genre
Subclass of
Rock music
Based on
Funk
Different from
Punk rock
Country of origin
United States
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