It is true that funk music evolved out of American music soul. Because Funk music is a mixture of soul, jazz and Rhythm and blues (R&B). Soul music was popular before which made some artist develop other genres like funk.
Even though is tru that the D. option is one of the characteristics of this type of music, The one that perfectly describes it is the C. option: It was performed with no instruments. This type of music is very similar to the gregorian musica and there is an absense of instruments.
