UK six CD box set. Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the United States in the 1970s. It is considered an ethnic subgenre of the general category of exploitation films. Blaxploitation films were the first to regularly feature soundtracks of funk and soul music as well as primarily black casts. This set features the best newly remastered soundtracks from the Blaxploitation genre - Isaac Hayes' Shaft, Roy Ayers' Coffy, Johnny Pate's Shaft in Africa, James Brown's Black Caesar, Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man and Booker T & The MG's Uptight.