Wattstax : the living word.

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Wattstax : highlights from the soundtrack.

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At Wattstax / by Hayes, Isaac

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I'll take you there : Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the march up freedom's highway / by Kot, Greg

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Los Angeles documentary and the production of public history, 1958-1977 / by Glick, Joshua, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : beyond fiction : institutions of the real Los Angeles -- Studio documentary in the Kennedy era : Wolper Productions begins -- Downtown development and the endeavors of filmmaker Kent Mackenzie -- The rise of minority storytelling : network news, public television, and independent collectives -- Hard lessons in Hollywood civics : managing the crisis of the liberal consensus -- Wattstax and the transmedia soul economy -- Roots/routes of American identity -- Numbering our days in Los Angeles, USA -- Conclusion : the 1984 Olympics and the neoliberalization of culture.…”
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Respect yourself : Stax Records and the soul explosion / by Gordon, Robert, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Cutting heads and hair (1957-1959) -- A new planet (1960) -- A Capitol idea (1960) -- The satellite's orbit (1960-1962) -- A banker and a gambler (1961-1962) -- "Green onions" (1962) -- Walk right in (1962-1963) -- The golden glow (1963-1965) -- Soul men (1963-1966) -- A rocket in wing tips (1965-1966) -- Kings and queens of soul (1965-1966) -- Unusual success (1966) -- Fatback cacciatore (1967) -- White carnations (1967-1968) -- "Born under a bad sign" (1968) -- "Soul limbo" (1968) -- A step off the curb (1968) -- The inspirer (1968-1969) -- The soul explosion (1968-1969) -- A pot of neckbones (1969-1970) -- Shaft (1971-1972) -- Balancing sheets and balancing acts (1971-1972) -- Wattstax (1972) -- The spirit of Memphis (1972-1974) -- A vexation of the spirit (1973-1974) -- A soul and a hard place (1975) -- "I'll take you there" (Epilogue).…”

Ultimate Isaac Hayes : can you dig it?. by Hayes, Isaac

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Do you see what I see? /

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Half a million strong : crowds and power from Woodstock to Coachella / by Arnold, Gina

The pop festival : history, music, media, culture /

Table of Contents: “…: myth and ideology in the rock festivals of the transatlantic counterculture / Nicholas Gebhardt -- "As real as real can get" : race, representation, and rhetoric at Wattstax, 1972 / Gina Arnold -- The artist at the music festival : art, performance and hybridity / Rebekka Kill -- Photo-essay : free festivals, new travellers, and the free party scene in Britain, 1981-1992 / Alan Lodge -- Festival bodies : the corporeality of the contemporary music festival scene in Australia / Joanne Cummings and Jacinta Herborn -- The Love Parade : European techno, the EDM festival, and the tragedy in Duisburg / Sean Nye and Ronald Hitzler -- Protestival : global days of action and carnivalised politics at the turn of the millennium / Graham St John -- Alternative playworlds : psytrance festivals, deep play and creative zones of transcendence / Alice O'Grady -- No Spectators! …”
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Documenting the black experience : essays on African American history, culture and identity in nonfiction films /

Table of Contents: “…A "perpetual threat": unforgivable blackness and Jack Johnson as a transmedia sports icon / Michael Graves -- From Compton to center court: Venus and Serena and the black female experience in professional tennis / Novotny Lawrence -- Electronic media immortalizing Dorothy Dandridge in documentary, African American press and mainstream press / Charlene Regester -- "Rated R because it's real": discourses of authenticity in Wattstax / Mike Phillips -- A glance at her story: black female documentarians navigating beyond the Theresa / Renee White, Sara Tekle and Melanie Shaw -- Documenting grassroots history as a means to social change: 778 bullets, community engagement and the legacy of rural civil rights / Angela J. …”
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A change is gonna come : music, race & the soul of America / by Werner, Craig Hansen, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…"Black is an' black ain't": JB, Miles, and Jimi ; Curtis Mayfield's gospel soul ; John Fogerty and the mythic south ; "Trouble comin' every day": southern strategies and the revolution on TV ; Troubled souls: Wattstax and Motown (west) ; "Where is the love?": Donny Hathaway and the end of the dream -- Section three: "I will survive": Disco, irony, and the sound of resistance. …”

What's that sound? : an introduction to rock and its history / by Covach, John Rudolph

Table of Contents: “…Black pop roots in the 1960s : Sly and the Family Stone: Sly crosses over ; In Sly's wake: Ohio players and Kool and the Gang ; Rock connection: tower of power and war ; Later in the '70s: Earth, Wind, and Fire and the Commodores ; Motown marches on: Norman Whitfield, the Temptations, and Marvin Gaye ; Stevie Wonder comes of age ; Last Train for the coast: Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, the Jackson 5, and Rare Earth ; Philadelphia sounds: Gamble and Huff ; Thom Bell, the Spinners, Stylistics ; "Blaxploitation": Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield ; Backstage pass: Wattstax: "Black Woodstock" and the legendary film it inspired / Rob Bowman -- James Brown, George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic ; Soul brother number 1 ; Mothership connections: George Clinton and company ; Average White Band, the band that did get airplay on white rock radio -- Reggae comes ashore : New Orleans and New York -- Rise of disco : I s hould be dancin', a new dance craze ; Return of the producers -- Disco and the hippies : Disco sucks?…”