With deep roots in Gospel, Rhythm & Blues and the Blues, Soul music grew to prominence in the early 1960s, as labels like Stax and Motown developed a musical production line that would dominate the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Funk music developed later, as James Brown, Maceo Parker and Sly & The Family Stone adapted the incessant, insistent rhythms of African music to create a new R&B-based fusion.
