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All You Need Is Love: Shots of screaming young girls in the UK besieging a car carrying unknown pop star. Held back by police. 03:20 Shots of African Lakes and savannah.04:27 African talking drum played by Tunji Oyelana of the Ibandan University in Nigeria, Demonstrates technique for manipulating it's sound. Explains how talking drums were used to communicate over distance. 07:13 Paul Oliver, academic , explains the origins of popular music in relation to Africa- drums were not the key component. 08:20 Most slaves came from the Savanah - the dominant instruments were stringed, not drums or horn instruments. The Savanah was the source not the African rainforests eg a traditional stringed instrument similar to a banjo. The majority of slaves taken to America were from the Savanah. 11:35 Amiri Baraka on slavery. 12L40 Fisk Jubilee Singers performing. Spiritual songs were the black interpretation of hymns. Slaves were made to forget their identity and traditions. 13:21 Paul Oliver interview. He notes that slaves had to adapt to white European culture.14:40 Jimmy Driftwood, musician. He is playing a lap stringed instrument. He claims folk was introduced by his forefathers- British ballads gave birth to US folk which led to country music. 18:00 Shots of a rodeo.18:50 Driftwood singing old folk song. 19:06 Paul Oliver on reconstruction after the civil war. Talks of segregation and the Jim Crow laws, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, 20:48 Como Mississippi Fife and Drum Corps. From 1880 onwards there was a flowering of black music. A pride in black culture in defiance of white culture. Ragtime developed as a derivation of marching music but played on piano. It was upbeat and positive and led to jazz .Blues originated in the cotton fields.. 23:26 (c) Lightnin' Hopkins. 23:52 Gospel - derived from spiritualism. 25:15 . Leroi Jones states that the exploitation of black music and artists is a political question. 26:55 Leroi on turning down Leonard Bernstein's offer to write music for his play. 27:35 (c) Duke Ellington.28:26. Leroi states that black music has always been packaged, sold and exploited.29:07 Jerry Wexler- music of New Orleans and the south reached a wider audience thanks to radio in the 50's.29:30 Ray Charles playing. 30:30 Rufus Thomas dancing suggestively with an audience member.30:54 Jerry Wexler laments that black music of today is becoming like pop music of yesterday. 31:15 (c) Big Bill Broonzy playing. Wexler claims that for a white teenage girl, The Beatles offered a safer form of black music, not as threatening, more asexual. 32:10 Rufus Thomas dancing,. 34:05 Interview with Jerry Wexler. Labels tried to make black music more palatable to a white audience. 34:28 Buck Ram Platters perform 'Only You' 35:43 (c) James Brown.36:20 John Hammond, record producer says there was a lot of prejudice against black artists. 37:20 The Staple Singers. 38:45 John Hammond- many black artists exploited and given bad deals by white establishment. 39;14 Fela Ransome-Kuti performing. Paul Oliver argues that modern African music is now trying to imitate white rock music. 42:00 John Hammond. 42:30 Segun Bugna Troupe.44:14 Ginger Baker watching African drummers in Oshogbu, Nigeria Baker plays along and then segue into Baker behind a drumkit with African musicians accompanying him against a montage of African scenes. 50:00 Tina Turner claims she never felt inspired by or enjoyed playing in Africa.

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