'Being Fly Is An Act Of Community'

Code Switch

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🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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When 'Soul Train' first aired in 1971, there had never been a show like it. Fifty years later, that's still true. So this week, we're passing the mic to our friends at NPR's It's Been a Minute podcast, who did a deep dive into the age of Black joy — and Black flyness — that Soul Train kicked off.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Code Switch from MPR.
0:02.2	I'm Karen Gricksby-Bates.
0:04.2	There has been a lot of good TV this year.
0:07.4	So much good TV.
0:08.5	In fact, that we're going to be bringing you
0:10.3	a whole episode about our favorite TV shows in December.
0:14.3	But earlier this year, our friends at NPR's
0:17.4	It's Binominant Podcast made the argument that one TV show,
0:21.2	which we got airing in 1971, occupies a unique place
0:25.8	in American TV history.
0:28.0	They say there had never been a show like it.
0:30.4	And there hasn't been one like it since.
0:33.2	That show is Soul Train.
0:36.8	And they're right.
0:37.8	It's where we learned the latest dances,
0:39.9	checked out the latest styles, micromanies, crop tops,
0:43.8	platform shoes, in there, or that.
0:47.0	And got to see our favorite artists perform for us
0:50.1	in our living rooms.
0:52.1	Soul Train was must see TV before a network coin that phrase.
0:56.2	It was indeed the hippest trip in America.
0:59.8	So today, we're passing the mic to our play-cousin Sam Sanders.
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