MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), Wattstax, Stevie Wonder
12 Nov 2018
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Unit 10 explores the diverse sounds that make up black pop of the 1970s. Youth dance culture, formed in the late 1950s by american bandstand, continues to develop in soul train, a program that showcases mainstream black pop (go here to see a montage of soul train excerpts from the. The mainstream music consists of funk, soul, motown pop, and fusions of these styles with other genres. Director mel stuart made a documentary of the concert titled. Wattstax: the living word that debuted the following year. The documentary weaves together the concert acts, footage from watts, and commentary by comedian richard prior to create a witness to the experience of urban african americans during this era. You can watch excerpts from the documentary here. Reggae and disco, two genres that had been largely underground through the early 1970s, join the mainstream in the mid 1970s.
