1. Smith, The One: The Life and Music of James Brown.
2. Ibid.
3. “James Brown Nixon’s Clown,” New York Amsterdam News, May 26, 1973.
4. Al Sharpton, “Sharpton: James Brown Biopic ‘Get On Up’ Has Uncomfortable Scenes but Speaks the Truth,” New York Daily News, July 30, 2014, http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/sharpton-brown-biopic-puts-pain-display-article-1.1885036.
5. Smith, The One: The Life and Music of James Brown.
6. Ibid.
7. Bruns, Jesse Jackson: A Biography.
8. Caroline Howe, “Revealed: Dick Clark’s Brazen Scheme to Oust Don Cornelius and Replace ‘Soul Train’ with His Own All-Black Dance Show,” Daily Mail, March 21, 2014, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2585503/Exposed-Dick-Clarks-brazen-scheme-replace-Don-Cornelius-Soul-Train-black-dance-show.html.
9. Maynard, directed by Samuel D. Pollard (2017), DVD.
10. George, Buppies, B-boys, Baps & Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture.
11. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, directed by Stanley Nelson (2015), DVD.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. “Bobby Seale,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Seale.
16. “Black Panther Party,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party.
17. Kramer, The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities.
18. “List of Best-Selling Albums by Year in the United States,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_by_year_in_the_United_States#1970s.
19. “Year-End Charts—Year-End Albums—The Billboard 200,” Billboard, February 14, 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20080214165824/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/yearend_chart_display.jsp?f=The+Billboard+200&g=Year-end+Albums&year=1973.
20. Gavin Haynes, “Soundtrack of My Life—50 Cent on Miley, Michael Jackson and Bobby Womack’s Power to Move,” New Musical Express, July 30, 2015, https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/soundtrack-of-my-life-50-cent-on-miley-michael-jackson-and-bobby-womacks-power-to-move-16206.
21. Werner, Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul.
22. Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, 231–66.
23. “Blaxploitation Cinema,” Oxford African American Studies Center, http://www.oxfordaasc.com/public/features/archive/0513/photo_essay.jsp?page=9.
24. Maurice Peterson, “Ron Was Too Light for ‘Shaft,’ but…,” New York Times, September 17, 1972, https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/17/archives/ron-was-too-light-for-shaft-but-ron-was-too-light-for-shaft-but.html.
25. Brown and Tucker, James Brown: The Godfather of Soul.
26. Smith, The One: The Life and Music of James Brown.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Clinton and Greenman, Brothas Be, Yo like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You? A Memoir.
31. Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus, directed by Mike Judge (Cinemax, 2018), DVD.
32. Corbett, Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein, 149–50.
33. Shelley Salant, “George Clinton Lays It All Down,” Metro Times, May 4, 2016, https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/george-clinton-lays-it-all-down/Content?oid=2441830.
34. Clinton and Greenman, Brothas Be, Yo like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You? A Memoir.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. Chang, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation.
40. Maya Rattrey, “Knowledge Session: The Griot Tradition,” I Am Hip Hop, March 18, 2018, http://www.iamhiphopmagazine.com/thegriottradition/.
41. “Dub Music,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dub_music.
42. Ibid.
43. Michael A. Gonzales, “Party over Here: An Oral History of Kool Herc’s Historic Back-to-School Jam,” Mass Appeal, https://massappeal.com/kool-herc-oral-history-party-over-here-birth-of-hip-hop/.
44. Sample This, directed by Dan Forrer (2012), DVD.
45. Ibid.
46. Angus Batey, “DJ Kool Herc Djs His First Block Party (His Sister’s Birthday) at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx, New York,” Guardian, June 12, 2011, https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/13/dj-kool-herc-block-party.
47. Steven Hager, “Afrika Bambaataa’s Hip-Hop,” Village Voice, September 21, 1982.