The effect of expert performance microtiming on listeners’ experience of groove in swing or funk music by Olivier Senn, Lorenz Kilchenmann, Richard Von Georgi, Claudia Bullerjahn

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Let’s Dance et son double ? Bowie/Gainsbourg, d’un tube à l’autre by Franck Ferraty

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The effects of musical fit on consumers’ choice when opportunity and ability is limited by Yeoh, Joanne Pei Sze, North, Adrian

“…The watches corresponded with either the luxurious stereotype of classical music or the modish stereotype of funk music. The participants chose between them while listening to either classical music, funk music or no music. …”
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'...and I feel good!' The relationship between body-movement, pleasure and groove in music by Witek, M

“…The present thesis directs a broadly psychological, yet multi-methodological and interdisciplinary, approach towards this relationship, centring on the rhythmic structure of syncopation in groove-based funk music. Through perceptual experiments, computational modelling, rating surveys, neuroimaging and motion-capture recording, syncopation was found to relate, in primarily negatively linear and inverted U-shaped ways, to finger-tapping performance, perceptions of stability, subjective desire to move and feelings of pleasure, neural activity in motor and reward areas, and force, synchrony and periodicity in body-movements. …”

Funk, religião e ironia no mundo de Mr. Catra by Mylene Mizrahi

“…The artist allows us to articulate his own creation both to his worldview as to the point of view of the youngsters from the favelas slums, main producers and consumers of funk music. The discourse around the divine, present at the artist's performances, is deepen in his daily life, consisting of a medium for expressing his own political position in the world. …”
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O Fator Raça na Violência Policial Cotidiana: um debate necessário by Ronan da Silva Parreira Gaia, Laysi da Silva Zacarias

“…It was approached, through literature review and analysis of three songs - a samba, a rap and a funk: musical genres of black origin and victims of criminalization, precisely because of their roots, protagonisms, and critics of situations of violence lived by the black Brazilian population from different audiences, times and styles. …”
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