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Straight Jazz Funk

Dancing might be about our implied dependency on Earth. There are examples of rhythmic workings powerful enough to advance our freedoms. We must harness the pulse which comes from the hip and use the beat as fuel for today and tomorrow. One of our favorite practitioners of Black American music (Esperanza Spalding) asks a simple yet pertinent question: why don’t we dance to [jazz/liberation] music anymore? Southern Proletariat Music Company offers a 60 minute mix documenting the humble historic synastry between music and dance as expressed from Black American southern traditions.

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Tracklist

0:00:24
Beverly Glenn CoplandBeverly Glenn Copland
In The Image
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Duke EllingtonDuke Ellington
David Danced Before The Lord
0:17:43
Missy ElliottMissy Elliott feat. Ciara, Ciara, Fat Man ScoopFat Man Scoop
Lose Control

Esperanza SpaldingEsperanza Spalding
Thang (hips)
Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong, Duke EllingtonDuke Ellington
It Don't Mean A Thing
Aretha FranklinAretha Franklin
Rock Steady
Marvin GayeMarvin Gaye
Got To Give It Up
Cab Calloway OrchestraCab Calloway Orchestra
I Want To Rock
Duke EllingtonDuke Ellington
Praise God And Dance