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Wattstax was a soul music festival organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles. The concert featured prominent Stax artists such as Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, and Rufus Thomas, and was filmed and released as a documentary in 1973.
Mar 2, 2023 · "Wattstax" is now being commemorated with a new box set and the theatrical re-release of a 1973 documentary. But to understand the significance of this landmark event, you have to rewind to...
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Feb 15, 2023 · This year, on the 50th anniversary of its 1973 release, the film Wattstax will be returning to theaters again. The documentary, itself a time capsule of a city in flux, captures the Watts Summer...
Aug 22, 2022 · A daylong festival 50 years ago on Aug. 20 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Wattstax was intended as a Black Woodstock. But the name of course was also a reference to the Watts Uprising of...
Aug 15, 2018 · In a summer full of anniversaries, the 1972 Wattstax concert in Los Angeles probably doesn't stick out. But Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia, of NPR's What's Good With Stretch and Bobbito ...
Wattstax is a 1973 documentary film by Mel Stuart that focused on the 1972 Wattstax music festival and the African American community of Watts in Los Angeles...
Wattstax is a film that captures the legendary "black Woodstock" of 1972, featuring performances by Isaac Hayes, Albert King, the Staple Singers, and more. It also shows the cultural and political context of the event, which celebrated black pride and identity after the Watts riots.
