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1) Zonk!
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Following up on the success of African Jim, but with higher production values, Zonk! shows the extraordinary cultural range available to township Africans, from the many ethnic strains of music from South Africa itself to contemporary American jazz and popular music, eagerly copied and Africanized. Zonk! confirms that despite the poverty and degradation of township life, the human spirit could triumph through music, producing groups and individual...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the insights of artists such as Chuck D, Ani DiFranco, and Michael Franti, Money for Nothing documents how musical and artistic expression have been severely curtailed by a new world business order in which six huge media conglomerates control virtually the entire music industry.
5) Dreamgirls
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Three female, African American soul singers try to come to terms with fame as they become an overnight success as a pop group.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Follows pop singer Justin Bieber during 10 days counting down to his Aug. 31, 2010 concert at Madison Square Garden. Includes footage from his My World Tour, interviews with family and friends, a visit to his original home town in Canada, and some of the story and videos of his childhood.
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
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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