ABOUT THIS ITEM

The Black Action Films of the early 1970s gave Hollywood its first African-American cinema – actors, directors, cameramen, editors and writers. These films discussed aspects of the African-American experience in the form of entertainment. Storylines interwove post-civil rights revolution with action stories, many involving pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers or private detectives. The films also featured the finest funk and soul black music of the time as stars such as James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Willie Hutch and Roy Ayers produced some of their finest work, with film budgets allowing for the addition of huge orchestral arrangements by jazz legends such as Quincy Jones, Johnny Pate and JJ Johnson. "Can You Dig It?" presents the best of the killer musical soundtracks to these films alongside analysis of the social and political conditions that helped create the films.

CD 1
1. Roy Ayers – Coffy (Coffy)
2. Gene Page – Blacula (Blacula
3. Johnny Pate - Shaft In Africa (Addis) (Shaft In Africa)
4. Willie Hutch - Brothers Gonna Work It Out (The Mack)
5. Don Costa - Soul Of Nigger Charley (Soul Of Nigger Charley)
6. Marvin Gaye - T Plays It Cool (Troubleman)
7. Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street (Across 110th Street)
8. JJ Johnson – Willie's Chase (Willie Dynamite)
9. James Brown - Down And Out In New York City (Black Caeser)
10. Quincy Jones – They Call Me Mister Tibbs (They Call Me Mister Tibbs)
11. JJ Johnson - Keep On Movin' On (Willie Dynamite)
12. Dennis Coffy - Black Belt Jones (Black Belt Jones)
13. Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead (Super Fly)
14. Blackbyrds - Wilford's Gone (Cornbread, Earl And Me)
15. Willie Hutch - Foxy Brown (Foxy Brown)
16. Isaac Hayes - Run Fay Run (Three Tough Guys)

CD 2
1. Isaac Hayes – Shaft (Shaft)
2. Joe Simon - Theme From Cleopatra Jones (Cleopatra Jones)
3. Roy Ayers – Aragon (Coffy)
4. Gordon Staples - All Strung Out (Mean Johnny Burrows)
5. Brer Soul & Earth, Wind And Fire - Sweetback's Theme (Sweet Sweetback)
6. Johnny Pate - Truck Stop (Shaft In Africa)
7. James Brown - Make It Good To Yourself (Black Caeser)
8. Isaac Hayes - Pursuit Of The Pimpmobile (Shaft In Africa)
9. Edwin Starr – Easin' In (Hell Up In Harlem)
10. Don Julian - Lay It On Your Head (Savage)
11. Gene Page - The Bus (Cool Breeze)
12. Grant Green - Travelling To Get Doc (The Final Comedown)
13. Impressions - Make A Resolution (Three The Hard Way)
14. Nat Dove And The Devils - Zombie March (Petey Wheatstraw)
15. Booker T And MG's - Time Is Tight (Uptight!)