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Melvin Van Peebles

The Melvin Van Peebles Collection - Music From The Soundtracks Of: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

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RELEASE DATE: 26 Oct 1999

2SCD-88040-2

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Renaissance man Melvin Van Peebles revolutionized African-American cinema with the release in 1971 of his decidedly off-the-wall Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The soundtrack album is equally radical, featuring Van Peebles's often-dissonant jazz-flavored funk tunes sung by himself with a very young Earth, Wind & Fire, along with dialogue from the film and bits of homegrown gospel music. Gospel is at the stylistic core of much of 1972's somewhat more traditional Don't Play… MORE