Blaxploitation: soul and funk

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Blaxploitation: soul and funk · In the early 1970s films appeared with Black leading actors, made for an urban Black audience. Melvin Van Peebles made Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) and wrote the music himself; it was played by the then still unknown Earth, Wind & Fire. Isaac Hayes, a songwriter at the label Stax in Memphis, wrote the music for Shaft that same year. The wah-wah guitar and the continuous sixteenth notes on the hi-hat in the title track became the sound of the genre. Hayes won the Oscar for best song with it, as the first Black composer to do so. Curtis Mayfield gave Super Fly (1972) songs that were critical of drugs. Roy Ayers wrote jazz-funk for Coffy (1973).

Listening

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  Theme from Shaft · Isaac Hayes, 1971
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  Superfly · Curtis Mayfield, 1972
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  Coffy Is the Color · Roy Ayers, 1973

In School of Rock

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• Film Music Map^NL Map

See also

• Jazz in film
• Pop song, rock and compilation score