{"id":1777,"date":"2009-07-11T14:21:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T21:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/soul-power-74-out-of-africa-at-last\/"},"modified":"2009-07-11T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T21:24:38","slug":"soul-power-74-out-of-africa-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/11\/soul-power-74-out-of-africa-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul Power ’74 Out Of Africa At Last"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Zaire\u2019s Moment of the Soul<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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Antidote Films\/Sony Pictures<\/p>\n

The Zaire \u201974 music festival included African musicians like Miriam Makeba, center, as well as top American soul acts like the Spinners, left, and and James Brown, right. The festival is the subject of the film \u201cSoul Power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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By\u00a0JON PARELES<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

LEFTOVERS can be tasty.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, the director of the new documentary\u00a0\u201cSoul Power,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0was a film editor in 1995 for\u00a0\u201cWhen We Were Kings,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0the Oscar-winning documentary directed by Leon Gast about the Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 heavyweight world championship bout between Muhammad Ali and\u00a0George Foreman<\/a>\u00a0in Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire (now Congo).<\/p>\n

That fight had a huge sideshow: Zaire \u201974, a three-day music festival of American soul alongside African music, headlined by\u00a0James Brown<\/a>\u00a0and filmed by the same crew that was in Zaire for the fight. \u201cSoul Power\u201d presents that festival from its precarious beginnings to the finale of a shirtless, sweating James Brown singing to an African audience, \u201cSay It Loud \u2014 I\u2019m Black and I\u2019m Proud.\u201d<\/p>\n

The festival was a striking sociocultural moment. African-American and Latin musicians were being introduced to Africa and African musicians amid Mr. Ali\u2019s black-power politics and a hodgepodge of visiting music, sports and literary figures. \u201cThere was a lot of deeper meaning about why people went there and what it evoked for them,\u201d Mr. Levy-Hinte said.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at the NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times Zaire\u2019s Moment of the Soul Antidote Films\/Sony Pictures The Zaire \u201974 music festival included African musicians like Miriam Makeba, center, as well as top American soul acts like the Spinners, left, and and James Brown, right. The festival is the subject of the film \u201cSoul Power.\u201d By\u00a0JON PARELES\u00a0 LEFTOVERS can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}