If dance, trance, smiles on lips, sweat dripping from bodies, and vital energy in their eyes are the nerve center of Cissy Street's music, their new album reveals, like a bitter aftertaste following sweetness, a little sting beneath the dance. It's a reminder that this music belongs to the Black Panthers, that its sweat is also that of labor and struggle, and that James Brown sang "Say It Loud! I'm Black and I'm Proud." That a musical revolution was accompanied by another in the streets: "Cold Sweat," one of funk's iconic tracks, was released a year before '68. The reflection of a burning period.
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