Black Sounds Festival

Tokyo: Kyodo-Tokyo Presentations, 1975.

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Softcover. First edition. Folio. [24]pp. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Text largely in Japanese, but with some English. A good only copy with creases to wrappers, stains, small chips and tears at the extremities from general use. A souvenir program for a tour of black funk and disco acts in Japan including The Miracles, The Softones, Marvin Brown, and others, featuring biographies of the acts, and the evolution and instructions for various funky and disco dances from 1966-1975 ending with variations on the Hustle, the Bump, and the Funky Robot. Also includes a "Soul English" English-to-Japanese dictionary of soul phrases, and some information on the evolution of funk.

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