29 Mar 2023

Blaxploitation: A genre, film movement - and great music

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 29 March 2023
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Music commentator Kirsten Zemke joins Kathryn to rewind 50 years to a time when black action stars were all but non-existent to the public eye. But as the real life-heroes of the civil rights movement began to reshape the US in the 1970s, a batch of fictional heroes captured the imagination of black America. Kirsten plays some music of the time. 

Kirsten Zemke is an ethnomusicologist at the University of Auckland's School of Social Sciences.

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