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Funk (Music).

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

African highlife - afrobeat - palmwine music archive

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8101
Scope and content A large selection of rare original African LPs and 45s together with support materials, with an emphasis on the most iconic highlife and afrobeat artists. Afro beat, afro funk, highlife and palmwine music is represented in the collection by LP high points. Many albums were pressed in Britain, with the sleeve jackets produced on the African continent. In some instances, records from Ghana and Nigeria had different sleeve designs as the editions sold out; this is also represented in the...
Dates: 1960s-1970s.

Afrika Bambaataa hip hop archive

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8094
Scope and content

Approximately 40,000 sound recordings representing Bambaataa's music collection from the 1970s to the present. The archive also includes books, documents, and files relating to the founding and spread of the Universal Zulu Nation; and videos, papers, and clothing.

Dates: circa 1972-2016.

David Scheinbaum hip hop photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 8137
Abstract

Several hundred photographs of Hip Hop artists and musicians, taken primarily during their performances in Albuquerque, NM between 2001 and 2012, along with some additional shows at venues in Oakland and Los Angeles, California.

Dates: 2001 - 2020

Troy L. Smith Collection of Hip Hop Party and Show Tapes

 Collection
Identifier: 8127
Scope and content

Approximately 300 Hip Hop party and show tapes collected by Troy L. Smith.

Dates: 1977 - 1986