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"In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was largely forgotten,...
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"Week after week, founder Don Cornelius called Soul Train 'the hippest trip in America,' and he was right on the money. Now, for the firs ttime ever on DVD, Time Life presents an amazing collection of performances from the Soul Train archives, many of which haven't been seen for some thirty years."--Container.
4) Wattstax
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On August 20, 1972, more than 100,000 people attended what came to be known as 'the black Woodstock.' Wattstax documents this historic event and includes the once-lost original ending.
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The 200 year history and evolution of gospel through its many musical styles: the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing, the emergence of soul, and the blending of rap and hip-hop elements, walking in step with the history of African-American culture.
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The untold story of the world's longest running video show, Video Music Box. A hip hop mainstay since 1983, VMB gave a platform to artists like Jay-Z, Nas and Mary J. Blige before they hit it big. Host Ralph McDaniels' archives amassed over 40 nearly years reveal the show's importance to numerous big-name musicians, as well as to the kids that grew up watching.
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In this new 2023 high-definition program, listen to and learn about the evolution of Black music, starting from Spirituals and Gospel, then moving through Ragtime, Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Doo-wop, Rock 'n Roll, Motown, Disco, Funk, and finally Hip Hop. Learn the significant cultural, social, and political influences that shaped each genre and the artists who contributed to their development. It's a comprehensive celebration of Black music that will...
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The story of the American civil rights movement through its music, the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, and more, as they fought for justice and equality. Includes new performances of the freedom songs by top artists, archival footage, and interviews with civil rights foot soldiers and leaders. Freedom songs evolved from slave chants, from the labor movement, and even from the black church.
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The short films included in this compilation are known as Soundies. These musical films were shown in a jukebox machine called Panoram. Over 2000 of these films were made between 1941 and 1947. This volume features three of the most accomplished African American musicians of the 1940s.
13) Dixieland jazz
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"Blues and ragtime, along with a rich local brass band tradition and many other influences, came together in early 1900s in New Orleans, Louisiana, to create a new type of music called Dixieland jazz, also known as traditional jazz or New Orleans jazz. As jazz gained in popularity, it spread north from New Orleans to Chicago, New York, Kansas City and across the Midwest to California"--Container.
15) Louie Bluie
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Criterion collection volume 532
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Documents the obscure country blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist, Howard 'Louie Bluie' Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. Director Terry Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, this is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to make in the coming years.
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A documentary that examines the struggles of black rock musicians and the industry's ambivalence towards them by combining scintillating performance footage and provocative interview clips. Director Raymond Gayle spent the better part of a year traveling around the United States, interviewing many of black rock's elite including Fishbone, Vernon Reid, Adam Falcon, Jimi Hazel, and more. Also attempts to dissect the stigma black rock musicians face...
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A sampling of musical talent from Harlem in the 1940s is featured in this collection of vintage "soundies," films which were shown in jukebox machines called Panoramas. Over 2000 of these films were made between 1941 and 1947, presenting many of the most popular recording artists of the day. Features stars such as Nat "King" Cole, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Dorothy Dandridge.
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Some of the greatest harmonizing vocal groups of the 1940s are featured in this collection of vintage "soundies, " films which were shown in jukebox machines called a Panorama. Over 2000 of these films were made between 1941 and 1947, presenting many of the most popular recording artists of the day. Seven numbers by the fabulous Mills Brothers highlight this compendium of top flight harmonizing. Also included are selections by the Delta Rhythm Boys,...
20) Wattstax
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The dynamic film of the 1972 Los Angeles event attended by over 100,000 concertgoers and first billed as the 'black Woodstock,' gets ya plenty. Its performances burn with vitality. Its forays into the neighborhood are a time capsule of pride and pain. And the Richard Pryor comedy riffs that provide the film₂s running commentary are a treasure all by themselves.