• Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One by Rickey Vincent, 1996.

• Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman by Fred Wesley, 2002.

• Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On by Miles Marshall Lewis, 33 1/3 Series, 2006.

• Presence and Pleasure: The Funk Grooves of James Brown and Parliament by Anne Danielsen, 2006.

• I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly and the Family Stone by Jeff Kaliss, 2008.

• The Funk Era and Beyond: New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture by Tony Bolden, 2008.

• The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. by Kip Lornell, Charles C. Stephenson Jr., 2009.

• Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City by Natalie Hopkinson, 2012.

• Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You? A Memoir by George Clinton, 2014.

• Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound by Andrea Swensson, 2017.

• There Was a Time: James Brown, The Chitlin’ Circuit, and Me by Alan Leeds, 2017.

• Groove Theory: The Blues Foundation of Funk by Tony Bolden, 2020.

• D’Angelo’s Voodoo by Faith Pennick, 33 1/3 Series, 2020.

• 24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth by Zach Schonfeld, 33 1/3 Series, 2020.

FILMS & SERIES

• Standing in the Shadows of Motown, dir. Paul Justman, 2002. 1h 56m.

• Wheedle's Groove, dir. Jennifer Maas, 2009. 1h 26m.

• Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth, dir. Philip Di Fiore, 2005. 29m.

• Thunder Soul, dir. Mark Landsman, 2010. 1h 24m.

• Finding the Funk, dir. Nelson George, 2013. 1h 30m.

• Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, dir. Alex Gibney, 2014. 2h 10m.

• Get on Up, dir. Tate Taylor, 2014. 2h 19m.

• The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove, dir. James Hale, 2014. 1h.

• “Bernie Worrell on Parliament-Funkadelic, Synthesizers and P-Funk by Red Bull Music Academy,” May 2015. 2h 16m.

• Betty – They Say I’m Different, dir. Philip Cox, 2017. 55m.

• "Tales From the Land of Funk: Dayton, Ohio and African American Funk Bands in the 1970s" Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University by Scot Brown, April 2017. 1h 19m.

• “Funkology: A Conversation with Bootsy Collins” at UCLA Fowler Museum, hosted by Scot Brown, January 2018. 40m. 

• “Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus” Season 2, 2018. 30m Episodes.

• Sound Field: How James Brown Invented Funk by PBS, January 2019. 8m.

• Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James, dir. Sacha Jenkins, 2021. 1h 51m.

• “Coming to Terms With the Legacy of Rick James” by Candice Frederick, The New York Times, September 2021. 

• “Dayton Street Funk: The Layering of Multiple Identities” by Portia K. Maultsby, The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology, December 2009.

• “Groove Theory: A Vamp on the Epistemology of Funk” by Tony Bolden, The American Studies Journal, Vol. 52 No. 4, 2013.

• “She Was Too Black for Rock and Too Hard for Soul”: (Re)discovering the Musical Career of Betty Mabry Davis” by Cheryl L. Keyes, The American Studies Journal, Vol. 52 No. 4, 2013.

• “The Feminist Funk Power of Betty Davis and Renee Stout” by Nikki Greene, The American Studies Journal, Vol. 52 No. 4, 2013.

• “Labelle: Funk, Feminism and the politics of Flight and Fight” by Francesca Royster, The American Studies Journal, Vol. 52 No. 4, 2013.

• “The Blues/Funk Futurism of Roger Troutman” by Scot Brown, The American Studies Journal, Vol. 52 No. 4, 2013.“

• ‘Chameleon’ Meets Soul Train: Herbie, James, Michael, Damita Jo, and Jazz-Funk” by Steven Pond, The American Studies Journal, Vol. 52 No. 4, 2013.

• “Exploring the Funkadelic Aesthetic: Intertextuality and Cosmic Philosophizing in Funkadelic’s Album Covers and Liner Notes” by Amy Wright, The American Studies Journal, Vol. 52 No. 4, 2013.

• “Belief in Lyric” by Aldon Nielsen, The American Studies Journal, Vol. 52 No. 4, 2013.

• “Diggin’ You Like Those Ol’ Soul Records: Meshell Ndegeocello and the Expanding Definition of Funk in Post Soul America” by Tammy L. Kernodle, The American Studies Journal, Vol. 52 No. 4, 2013.

• “Beyond Keeping it Real: OutKast, the Funk Connection, and Afrofuturism” by Howard Rambsy, The American Studies Journal, Vol. 52 No. 4, 2013.

• “Now We Want Our Funk Cut: Janelle Monáe's Neo-Afrofuturism” by Daylanne English & Alvin Kim, The American Studies Journal, Vol. 52 No. 4, 2013.

• “Rise of the Funky Divas” by Michael A. Gonzales, EBONY, August 2013.

• “Origin Stories: The Neptunes” by Chris Williams, RBMA, April 2015.

• “DJ Soul Sister: New Orleans’ Rare Groove Royalty” by Alison Fensterstock, RBMA, September 2017.

• “The Artful, Erotic, and Still Misunderstood Funk of Betty Davis” by Emily J. Lordi, The New Yorker, May 2018.

• “Go-go music and gentrification in Washington, DC” by Natalie Hopkinson, Slate, April 2019.

• “The Empire Strikes Back: “Atomic Dog” and the Rebirth of Parliament-Funkadelic in the Early 1980s” by Melissa A. Weber a.k.a. DJ Soul Sister, RBMA Daily, May 2019.

• And the Funk Still Lingers On: Chaka Khan’s 1982 Eponymous Masterpiece by Brandon Ousley, June 2019.

• “Funk Lessons in Sonic Solitude (on Joi)” by DJ Lynnée Denise, Longreads, April 2020. 

• “Before & After Funkadelic's 'Maggot Brain'” by Christopher R. Weingarten, prod. by Aliza Aufrichtig, The New York Times, July 2021.

PODCASTS & RADIO

• "Mayer Hawthorne on Parliament’s “The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein” (1976)" by Heat Rocks, January 2019. 45m.

• "The Art of Sampling #1, James Brown’s “In the Jungle Groove” (1984)" by Heat Rocks, April 2019. 40m.

• "Adeline on Chaka Khan’s “Naughty” (1980)" by Heat Rocks, July 2020. 49m.

• "DJ Soul Sister on The Meters’ “Rejuvenation” (1974)" by Heat Rocks, January 2021. 53 mins.

• “Stank! with DJ Tequesta” by DJ Tequesta. Season 1, October 2020.