A number of musical projects, most notably by Quinlan, Brill, Little and Bloch, took the funk idea back to its roots as a musical style (see George Clinton, James Brown and Robert Wyatt) that was blended with elements of Devo and Pere Ubu that had also come out of northern Ohio.
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The M'bwebwe painters and poets originally met while attending Kent State University in the U.S. state of Ohio in the mid-1970s.
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They include painters David Wayne Cole, Thomas David Little (1955-2006), and James F. Quinlan, sculptor Christopher Cosma, computer artist Jeff Brice, and multi-media artists Peter Brill and Mark Bloch.