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Melvin Van Peebles : When I was growing up in the streets of Chicago, a brer was a bro, a homeboy. ... The idea of doing a record employing the Brer Soul character arose back in 1967, when I returned to this country after living for several years in Holland and France, Europe. From abroad I knew the ferment of the civil rights movement, but I was struck when I got back here that almost none of the black popular or protest music mirrored the black experience per se.
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