Black Music in America - ca. mid-1970's

[dggd]

@camoflaugetampex Amen to that! Should have kept it in the hood!

[rafaelrosad2387]

Thank you for sharing this fine piece. Very inspiring! (as always, btw)

[ChowMeinChowdown]

What we need is the soul (with a real history to boot) that basically inspired such beautiful music, and not some culturally appropriated version of it that departs from the essence of the music. There was no level playing field from the beginning of the 20th century. Earlier colonialism and then the contemporaneous capitalism scam did well to ensure that. People need to wake up.

[XxMindofaRavenxX]

Jazz, Blues, Rock n Roll, Reggae,Hip Hop, Techno, Soul, R&B, Deewop, Gospel, Disco, Funk, Go-Go, African Folk. All music Originated aka Created By Black Culture

[kwacou]

@XxMindofaRavenxX You forgot, Salsa,Son,Samba,Cumbia,Tango,M­erengue, Bachata,Calypso,Spooge, nearly all the music of the Americas from the top of Canada to the bottom of Argentina.

[sne19]

nina simone

[AlexandreKarat]

I am a musician and want to sing blues in America, I speak today in Brazil. I want a good producer.

[enferno00]

Not all of us black folks believe in that brainwashing religion called christianity.

[MBOYYO]

oh wait? so whats white american music? country? :S

[Chuichupachichi]

That tune from Nina Simone had some awesome drumming! I though this documentary would be longer & more thorough, it unfortunately ended rather abruptly.

[malfini1]

Negro spirituals, jazz, blues, R&B, rock n' roll, reggae, hip-hop...all black music!!!

[mookindahouse]

Nina Simone @ the beginning... just timeless.

[princette]

Definitely 71, the costumes are still hippy dippy meets shaft/superfly rather than disco era. Its at the emergent time of black civil rights, when black were expected to say "You dig" have big leather coats, wayout psychedelic shirts and afros that ended in sideburns. It was still a time of ignorance and stereotypes, like here we called them "Afro Joes" in 1971.

[parce86]

no point in fucking cutting the narrators voice, its just a bunch of songs w.o a meaning

[passjay]

thx for the send ghostjazz...this is wondeerfull..alway did have an appreciation for the origins of jazz..and/or popular music..peaceNlove to you..lovely video!!

[kingwill86]

does anyone know the name of the song that Nina Simone is singing at 3:11?

[VanTanna]

3 Women

[gavkasso]

have you found out? she is awesome there...

[kingwill86]

boy i love my people!

true gods

[bumbacutthoat]

there is but one god

[Lkonae]

@bumbacutthoat You mean 'There is no God'?

[Paulwander]

@bumbacutthoat

There is but one God - Race

[zymaymyn]

I checked IMDb and this film was made in 1971. Yes, that's Irene Cara, but she's not the only familiar face at the end of the film. The man at the right side of the seesaw is Northern Calloway (David from Sesame Street). 2 other Short Circus members from "The Electric Company" are also at the end of the film. Douglas Grant (who sings a solo toward the end) and Melanie Henderson.

[shortae1]

great stuff here

[lildwayne21]

Classic stuff right here

[JevyFreshest]

Is the young girl singing at the end Irene Cara from Fame?

jf

[tjamassey]

Interesting. To me though the 1970s black music has to include Soul - the sylistics,Motown,Diana Ross,Trammps,Tavaris etc

[LetItFloat]

Good information contained in, only positive aspect of the black contribution is revealed herein. No mention of separated lives and, which was the main reason for the African American music to possess its own distinct flavor.

[mrlopez2681]

I find the christian factor of black music very interesting, considering that it was a religion forced upon them by those who enslaved them.

[tbcass]

Please leave your political anti Christian garbage out of this. Some people just don't know enough to keep quiet. That was a different time.

[tbcass]

Are you aware that Europeans had the Christian Religion forced upon them by the Roman Empire?

[AlohaBay]

go worship your tree in the backyard.

[Mshoney720]

I feel you! And you are right! It is very crazy how we as black people have totally embraced a religion that was forced upon us by not only people who beat and killed us but also by people who didn't really practice the religion as they wrote it!!!!! Good ol Bible toten Christians will always refute or rationalize these facts but and that is why we as black people remain in psychological slavery! Notice how instead of pondering on what you said people just automatically gave you a thumbs down!

[cyspy]

I believe that someone did ponder what he said; and refuted it excellently.

While it is very significant that the African-American people have been basically forced into every way about them by European-Americans, European-Americans were once Europeans, and Europeans were oppressed by other people.

Certain racist European-Americans simply continued it; they did not start it.

[MUN7001]

purposes

[rescueranjazz]

This is actually done in my language,my cultiure and all......WOW..Good job

[PhuckHue]

great post. thats Irene Cara singing lead in the Broadway play. she's swinging on the swing set too

[edoplasschaert]

Amazing.. Thank you so much for posting this

[austinitesince1979]

That is some pretty rare footage there!  Thanks!