I always like to do something a little deeper for February. Particularly I’m into audio artifacts (such as an actual phone conversation between Martin Luther King and President Lyndon Johnson).
Today, I’m sharing a 1984 classroom lecture by Amiri Baraka, the writer and radical-left activist, on the development of black literature.Click here to hear a 9-minute excerpt. For the entire 95-minute sound file, follow this link to Internet Archive.
This lecture – delivered at Naropa University in Colorado – is part of the Naropa Poetics Audio Archive, a repository of hipness that demands further examination.
The Internet is a free university at your fingertips, y’all. Blows my mind sometimes.
Anyway, Baraka begins with a reference to his essay collection “Daggers and Javelins,” which was published in ’84.
WHite folks like UBM engaged in overkill to validate themsleves during Black History Month...UBM is in overdrive..
ReplyDeleteEnough White Boy..Enough..
Tedious racist Thrasher aside, that's some fine audio, thanks for turning me on to it/
ReplyDelete^ Cheers.
ReplyDeleteThe Internet is a free university at your fingertips, y’all. Blows my mind sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI know! Every time I'm on, I think similar thoughts. I don't think there's ever been a time when information has been this readily and widely accessible.
My problem is that it can be overwhelming! But I can't complain...
I watched "Dutchman" recently - the 1966 film based on the play - for the first time, and it inspired some ideas for a short film which I'm currently writing.
I don't think there's ever been a time when information has been this readily and widely accessible.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet... ignorance, rumor and hoaxes prevail. Ain't that a bitch?
;^)