VA - Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975

Soundtracking the short-lived yet historically-important Black Power movement, Listen, Whitey! is a superb accompaniment to the recently-published book of the same name. An inspiring and moving testimony to a time when demands for social change rocked America.

"Pop's fading power to shock is thrown into stark relief by this compilation, conceived as the soundtrack to a new book of the same title that charts the black power struggles of the late '60s and early '70s...The premise of Pat Thomas's handsome book is that this was an era in which revolutionaries such as Bobby Seale and Angela Davis were treated as pop cultural icons, while musicians became revolutionaries." - The Guardian

"Compiler Pat Thomas breaks with convention, avoiding a predictably narrow focus of soul and funk cuts and opting instead for a more expansive purview that encompasses spoken word, folk, rock, and other genres in the mix...Thomas is careful to distinguish his selections from contemporaneous Blaxploitation staples, as detailed annotations on each track go deep into explaining historical and cultural context." - Dusted