Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

- Do you feel all right? - Amen. 758 00:38:49,445 --> 00:38:50,447 Do you feel all right? 759 00:38:50,532 --> 00:38:52,172 GREG TATE: There's something very specific 760 00:38:52,243 --> 00:38:53,746 about what happened in Black America 761 00:38:53,913 --> 00:38:57,336 where I think the only place we could be fully expressive 762 00:38:57,504 --> 00:38:59,884 was in music, was in these church rituals. 763 00:39:00,176 --> 00:39:01,613 YOUNG MAVIS: (SINGING) Help me, Lord. 764 00:39:01,637 --> 00:39:04,685 TATE: Gospel was channeling the emotional core of Black people 765 00:39:04,852 --> 00:39:06,647 who were insiders as Christian. 766 00:39:06,814 --> 00:39:09,277 They experienced and redefined it for themselves 767 00:39:09,444 --> 00:39:10,697 and that goes all the way back 768 00:39:10,864 --> 00:39:12,868 to the first moments, probably, 769 00:39:12,951 --> 00:39:14,663 of Black conversion to Christianity. 770 00:39:14,830 --> 00:39:17,501 Come on and throw down Sing and shout. 771 00:39:17,878 --> 00:39:20,508 - Nobody there to put me down. - Holler. 772 00:39:20,675 --> 00:39:21,719 Look up there. 773 00:39:21,802 --> 00:39:23,430 - In the heat of the day. - Holler. 774 00:39:23,514 --> 00:39:24,642 Filled up my heart. 775 00:39:24,725 --> 00:39:26,186 - Then began to say. - Holler. 776 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,902 TATE: There's this notion of spirit possession 777 00:39:29,985 --> 00:39:31,196 that comes from Africa. 778 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:35,747 It's a part of seeking 779 00:39:35,830 --> 00:39:37,626 a certain kind of release and catharsis. 780 00:39:38,711 --> 00:39:40,799 - (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) - (ALL CHANTING) 781 00:39:57,624 --> 00:40:00,004 TATE: This is an eruption of spirit 782 00:40:00,170 --> 00:40:01,674 to arrive at an inner peace 783 00:40:01,757 --> 00:40:04,178 through being completely expressively open. 784 00:40:04,345 --> 00:40:06,224 (VOCALIZING) 785 00:40:09,147 --> 00:40:11,694 (SINGING) Wrapped, tied Wrapped and tangled 786 00:40:11,861 --> 00:40:13,823 I am wrapped and tangled. 787 00:40:14,282 --> 00:40:17,079 Wrapped, tied and tangled Wrapped, tied and tangled. 788 00:40:17,246 --> 00:40:20,461 Wrapped, tied and tangled Wrapped, tied and tangled. 789 00:40:20,628 --> 00:40:24,010 Wrapped, tied and tangled Wrapped, tied and tangled. 790 00:40:24,177 --> 00:40:25,740 - Wrapped, tied and tangled. - Are you wrapped. 791 00:40:25,764 --> 00:40:27,326 - Wrapped, tied and tangled. - Are you wrapped. 792 00:40:27,350 --> 00:40:28,912 - Wrapped, tied and tangled. - Are you wrapped. 793 00:40:28,936 --> 00:40:30,415 - Wrapped, tied and tangled. - Are you wrapped. 794 00:40:30,439 --> 00:40:32,085 - Wrapped, tied and tangled. - Are you wrapped. 795 00:40:32,109 --> 00:40:33,254 - Wrapped, tied and tangled. - Are you wrapped. 796 00:40:33,278 --> 00:40:35,825 - Oh, yeah, wrapped over here. - Wrapped, tied and tangled. 797 00:40:35,992 --> 00:40:39,082 SHARPTON: Gospel was more than religious. 798 00:40:39,248 --> 00:40:43,215 Gospel was the therapy for the stress and pressure 799 00:40:43,298 --> 00:40:45,052 of being Black in America. 800 00:40:45,219 --> 00:40:48,851 We didn't go to a psychiatrist, we didn't go lay on a couch, 801 00:40:49,102 --> 00:40:51,481 we didn't know anything about therapists, 802 00:40:51,565 --> 00:40:53,110 but we knew Mahalia Jackson. 803 00:40:53,276 --> 00:40:54,822 (SINGING) While I'm singin' I'm holy. 804 00:40:54,905 --> 00:40:57,451 Lord, search my heart. 805 00:40:57,661 --> 00:41:02,086 While I'm singin' I'm holy Lord, search my heart. 806 00:41:02,546 --> 00:41:07,096 While I'm singin' I'm holy Lord, search my heart 807 00:41:07,179 --> 00:41:08,975 (SCATTING) 808 00:41:22,418 --> 00:41:24,338 CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT: Gospel's part of our DNA. 809 00:41:25,508 --> 00:41:27,804 It's deep in the recesses of my consciousness. 810 00:41:28,723 --> 00:41:31,060 My grandfather was a minister. 811 00:41:31,227 --> 00:41:33,733 My father was a chaplain in World War II, 812 00:41:33,816 --> 00:41:34,985 the Korean War. 813 00:41:35,152 --> 00:41:37,406 That religious consciousness 814 00:41:37,490 --> 00:41:39,703 kept him and so many others going. 815 00:41:39,870 --> 00:41:44,378 During the civil rights movement, the church provided sustenance for us, 816 00:41:44,546 --> 00:41:46,299 helped us march on, 817 00:41:46,466 --> 00:41:48,721 helped generations of people 818 00:41:48,804 --> 00:41:52,102 confront some of the most vicious, violent acts. 819 00:41:53,104 --> 00:41:56,862 They took the great Martin Luther King from us. 820 00:41:57,029 --> 00:42:00,995 They took the great John Kennedy from us. 821 00:42:01,204 --> 00:42:03,709 They took the great Bobby Kennedy, 822 00:42:03,876 --> 00:42:05,547 but most of all