4 albums. Blaxploitation, Funk, Soul, Marvin Gaye, Bobby Womack, James Brown
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Can You Dig It ? The Music and Politics of Black Action Films 1968 - 75 Two double albums - BRAND NEW SEALED ‘Can You Dig It?’ charts the rise of ‘Black Action Films’ from 1970-75. The vinyl is on two monster loud separate double albums. The Black Action Films of the early 1970s gave the Hollywood industry its first African-American cinema – actors, directors, cameramen, editors and writers. These films discussed aspects of the African-American experience in the form of entertainment. Storylines interwove post-civil rights revolution with action stories, many involving pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers or private detectives. The films also featured the finest funk and soul black music of the time as stars such as James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Willie Hutch and Roy Ayers produced some of their finest work, with film budgets allowing for the addition of huge orchestral arrangements by jazz legends such as Quincy Jones, Johnny Pate and JJ Johnson. In the early 1970s, Black Action Films exploded into the cinema with three extremely successful films – ‘Shaft’, ‘Super Fly’ and ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song’. The most profound statement of these films was their actual existence – black actors and black directors entering the previously closed Hollywood film industry. 1. Roy Ayers – Coffy Is The Color 2. Gene Page – Blacula 3. Johnny Pate – Shaft In Africa 4. Willie Hutch – Brother's Gonna Work It Out 5. Don Costa – Charley - Main Theme 6. Marvin Gaye – 'T' Plays It Cool 7. Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street 8. J.J. Johnson – Willie Chase 9. James Brown – Down And Out In New York City 10. Quincy Jones – They Call Me MISTER Tibbs 11. Martha Reeves and J.J. Johnson – Keep On Movin' On 12. Dennis Coffey – Theme From Black Belt Jones 13. Curtis Mayfield – Freddie's Dead 14. The Blackbyrds – Wilford's Gone 15. Willie Hutch – Theme Of Foxy Brown 16. Isaac Hayes – Run Fay Run 17. Isaac Hayes – Shaft 18. Curtis Mayfield – Pusherman 19. Joe Simon – Theme From Cleopatra Jones 20. Johnny Pate – You Can't Even Walk In The Park 21. Brer Soul and Earth, Wind and Fire – Sweetback's Theme 22. James Brown – Make It Good To Yourself 23. Isaac Hayes – Pursuit Of The Pimpmobile 24. Grant Green – Travelling To Get To Doc 25. Booker T and the MG's – Time Is Tight 26. Roy Ayers – Aragon 27. Edwin Starr – Easin' In 28. Gordon Staples and The String Thing – Strung Out 29. Nat Dove and The Devils – Zombie March 30. The Impressions – Make A Resolution 31. Solomon Burke and Gene Page – The Bus 32. Jack Ashford – Las Vegas Strut 33. Don Julian – Lay It On Your Head 34. Galt MacDermot – Ed and Digger
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