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Amiri Baraka (1934-2014)


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A Black Mass Part 1 (15:43)

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  1. A Black Mass Part 1 (15:43)
  2. A Black Mass Part 2 (19:51)
  3. Black Dada Nihilismus (DJ Spooky mix) (4:12)
  4. For Pharaoh Sanders (0:54)
  5. In Walked Bud (2:43)
  6. Pressure to Grow (1:30):
  7. The X Is Black (Spike Lie) (3:07)
  8. Wooden Negroes Appear at a Slam" and several "Low Coups" (5:08)
  9. Class Struggle in Music II (4:58)
  10. Dope (5:05):
  11. Somebody Blew Up America (11:12)
  12. Something in the Way of Things (featuring the Roots) (7:04)
  13. The Academic Cowards of Reaction (5:21)
  14. Complete reading (21:44)
  15. Against Bourgeois Art (recording starts in medias res) (3:48)
  16. Caution, part 3 (3:50)
  17. I Love Music (2:15)
  18. War Clouds Over the World (5:03)
  19. Dope (6:47)
  20. The Revolutionary Theatre (11:40)
  21. Introduction (4:50)
  22. Snake Eyes (0:40):
  23. A Poem for Speculative Hipsters (0:34)
  24. Black Bourgeoisie (0:54)
  25. Young Soul (0:49)
  26. Poem for Half-White College Students (1:46)
  27. Western Front (1:24)
  28. In One Battle (1:00)
  29. Bad Mouth (0:50)
  30. Ghosts (0:50)
  31. Where's the Romantic Life? (0:57)
  32. Three Movements and a Coda (1:28)
  33. Blue Whitey (0:25)
  34. 3rd Avenue (0:50)
  35. Poem for Bald Heads (1:04)
  36. Houdini (0:59)
  37. The People Burning (4:01)
  38. Complete Recording (47:14)
  39. Introduction (0:36)
  40. As a Possible Lover (0:52)
  41. A Contract for the Destruction and Rebuilding of Patterson (2:12)
  42. The Dance (1:43)
  43. A Poem for Speculative Hipsters (0:36)
  44. Black Dada Nihilismus (4:02)
  45. Snake Eyes (0:39)
  46. Short Speech to My Friends (2:27)
  47. Houdini (0:46)
  48. A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand (1:20)
  49. Tightrope (0:23)
  50. Kenyatta Listening to Mozart (1:08)
  51. Mise En Scene, Newark 1947 (0:49)
  52. Three Modes of History and Culture (2:49):
  53. Blue Whitey (0:26):
  54. The Bronze Buckaroo (2:08)
  55. Complete Reading (24:41)

A Black Mass (1968)

A Black Mass Part 1 (15:43)
A Black Mass Part 2 (19:51)

Accompanied by Sun Ra's Myth-Science Orchestra


Various Poems

Reading with Ed Dorn at the Just Buffalo Literary Center, Buffalo, NY, December 8, 1978

Complete reading (21:44)

  1. Against Bourgeois Art (recording starts in medias res) (3:48)
  2. Caution, part 3 (3:50)
  3. I Love Music (2:15)
  4. War Clouds Over the World (5:03)
  5. Dope (6:47)


From the Berkeley Poetry Conference, July 1965
The Revolutionary Theatre (11:40)



From a Reading at San Francisco State University, 4 March 1965

From a Reading at the Asilomar Negro Writers Conference, Pacific Grove, California, early August, 1964
  1. Introduction (0:36)
  2. As a Possible Lover (0:52)
  3. A Contract for the Destruction and Rebuilding of Patterson (2:12)
  4. The Dance (1:43)
  5. A Poem for Speculative Hipsters (0:36)
  6. Black Dada Nihilismus (4:02)
  7. Snake Eyes (0:39)
  8. Short Speech to My Friends (2:27)
  9. Houdini (0:46)
  10. A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand (1:20)
  11. Tightrope (0:23)
  12. Kenyatta Listening to Mozart (1:08)
  13. Mise En Scene, Newark 1947 (0:49)
  14. Three Modes of History and Culture (2:49):
  15. Blue Whitey (0:26):
  16. The Bronze Buckaroo (2:08)
  17. Complete Reading (24:41)



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