Category Archives: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasss Song; A Hood Opera

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadaass Song — Recorded Live in Paris!!

By Burnt Sugar | Published: February 19, 2010
Thanks to the efforts of our amaz­ing French hosts at Sons D’Hiver & Arte Live Web — we’re happy to share the per­for­mance of the sec­ond night of “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadaass Song: A Hood Opera”
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Sweetback Caught in the Act on Brooklyn Independent Television

By Burnt Sugar | Published: February 16, 2010
Many thanks and a HUGE shout out to Brook­lyn Inde­pen­dent Tele­vi­sion, a com­mu­nity media pro­gram of BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn ! Check them out here
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Ben Sisario profiles Melvin Van Peebles at The NY Times

By Burnt Sugar | Published: January 22, 2010
“ASK Melvin Van Pee­bles about his legacy, and you get a snort, a gri­mace, a wave of the hand, a game-show error buzz and a finely punc­tu­ated “come on.” “I didn’t even know I had a legacy,” he said between rehearsals for his lat­est project, a musical-theater adap­ta­tion of his 1971 film “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss [...]
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Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (the Hood Opera)

By Burnt Sugar | Published: January 22, 2010
The unfor­get­table Melvin Van Pee­bles’ movie Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) is an iconic work of Afro-American cin­ema and the begin­nings of Blax­ploita­tion. It was one the biggest suc­cesses in the inde­pen­dent film-making and still has a huge influ­ence over the hip-hop cul­ture. Melvin Van Pee­bles’ own com­po­si­tions really deter­mine the action by invent­ing some­thing [...]
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Late Night at Joe’s Pub, with special guest, Melvin Van Peebles

By Burnt Sugar | Published: December 30, 2009
As the story goes …from a hum­ble begin­ning of only two the­aters and a tor­rent of neg­a­tive reviews, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baasasssss Song” even­tu­ally mush­roomed to domes­tic box office receipts of $10,000,000.00 and landed on Daily Variety’s list of top-grossing films for the year 1971.  Inci­den­tally Sweet Sweet­back was the largest gross­ing inde­pen­dent film up to [...]
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“Sweet Sweetback’s Baddass Song: A Hood Opera” Open Rehearsals at BRICstudio

By Burnt Sugar | Published: December 18, 2009
Two Nights! Feb 3 & 4 Melvin Van Pee­bles & Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber in res­i­dence at BRICstudio 8:00 PM Work-In-Progress (rehearsal) View­ing 9:45 PM Dis­cus­sion w/ Melvin Van Pee­bles 10:00 PM Book Sign­ing & Mer­chan­dise Sales Doors Open @ 7:45 PM Tick­ets Details Com­ing Soon! Join us for an unfor­get­table evening with leg­endary artist and direc­tor [...]
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