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OPINION | CRITICAL MASS: On Stevie Wonder and the 'Summer of Soul'


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OPINION | CRITICAL MASS: On Stevie Wonder and the Summer of Soul
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Philip Martin
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Stevie Wonder sings “It’s Your Thing” at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, as seen in the documentary “Summer of Soul.”
There is a perspective distortion that comes with looking backward.
Stevie Wonder was 19 on July 20, 1969, when he walked onstage at the Harlem Cultural Festival, an event that would be lost to legend and rumor were it not for Ahmir Questlove Thompson s just-released directorial debut Summer of Soul (. or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised).
He looks so young, whippet-slim and dangerous in a way you don t expect this avatar of joy to have ever looked. I know better, but still expected him to seem at least a decade older. By the summer of 1969, Stevie Wonder d already released 10 albums. Berry Gordy had signed him to Tamla Records, a Motown subsidiary, when he was 11 years old. He d been o ....

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'What's Going On' at 50 – Marvin Gaye's Motown classic is as relevant today as it was in 1971


Marvin Gaye s What s Going On was released on 21 May 1971. 
The album soon became Motown s best-selling album.
Five decades later the album s exploration remains as relevant today as it was when it was first written. 
Motown wasn’t really known for its politically conscious music. Then came “What’s Going On.”
Released on May 21, 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Marvin Gaye’s album became a monster, spawning three hit singles on its way to becoming Motown’s best-selling album to date. The album also marked a turning point for Motown and for Marvin Gaye as an artist.
As a scholar of race and culture in the U.S. and the host of the weekly radio show “Soul Stories,” I am struck by how many of the themes Gaye explores remain as relevant today as they were when he first wrote about them 50 years ago. ....

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'What's Going on' at 50 – still relevant » Albuquerque Journal


Gaye’s evolution
Some of the songs on the album speak directly to the state of the world in the early 1970s.
The title track, with its timeless lyric – “war is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate” – condemned the nation’s involvement in Vietnam. But the song provides an insight into the evolution of Gaye’s music to encompass overtly political themes.
“What’s Going On” contrasts with his earlier work from the Vietnam War era that presents a different perspective. For example, “Soldier’s Plea,” the first single from Gaye’s second album, “That Stubborn Kinda Fellow,” in 1962, offers a decidedly romantic view of war: ....

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