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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Roz Baxandall on the Coalition of Labor Union Women |
Bonnie Bellow and Nanette Rainone talk with historian, Roz Baxandall, who attended the founding conference of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) in Chicago on March 23 and 24, 1974. At the time of the interview, Baxendahl was writing a book on the history of women and work. They discuss this historic conference, which marks the first women's organization established totally by and for union women. Produced by Bonnie Bellow and Nanette Rainone. Recorded live. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women workers., Women labor unionists., Coalition of Labor Union Women (U.S.), Baxandall, Rosalyn Fraad, 1939-, Working class women | American Women -- Work and unions | IZ1397 | |
| KPFA poetry festival (1977) / recorded by Randy Thom and Doug Maisel. |
KPFA Poetry Festival May 14, 1977. From the folio: "On Saturday, May 14, U.C.'s S.U.P.E.R.B. Productions will present what will be the biggest poetry reading staged in the Bay Area since the Vietnam era, and perhaps the biggest ever. And all on behalf of raising funds for KPFA! KPFA and Pacifica have long been an important medium for the presentation of the works of contemporary poets. So it is fitting that KPFA now be the 'cause' for the poets and their toilers to rally around. The first part of the festival opens with Allen Ginsberg leading the audience in breathing exercises, mantra and an approx 2 minute silent meditation. He then sings Wiliam Blake's "Voices of the Bard". He is followed by Fred Cody, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and Jana Harris. The second part of the festival begins with Harlem's David Henderson followed by Jessica Hagedorn reading with musical accompaniment by Steve Marshall (clarinet, saxophone, flute), Clara Williams and Ota[sp?] (vocals), Hashima Mark Williams (bass), Bob Marshall (drums), William Brown (electric guitar), and Bugsy Moore (percussion). This tape ends with a mystical, miniature sermon by 1968 National Book Award winner Robert Bly, incorporating poems by, among others, Rilke, Yeats, and the world's first whirling dervish. Part three begins with Max Schwartz, poet and host of KPFA's prison poetry show STATE OF EMERGENCY, who conducts a spontaneous jam with his jazz musician friends. Edward Dorn, Joanne Kyger, and Simon Ortiz are the other poets on this program. The fourth part of the Poetry Festival begins with a reading by Lewis MacAdams, who opens with the question "What do you do if you are raised in Iowa and you still want to be a poet?" Next is Puerto Rican poet Victor Hernandez Cruz, followed by poet, novelist and publisher Ishmael Reed. This part finishes with the dynamic poet Alta of the Shameless Hussy Press. The fifth and final part of the program is Allen Ginsberg singing songs (with musical accompaniment) and reading poetry. More information about the event available in the folios here: https://archive.org/details/kpfafoliojul77paci and here: https://archive.org/details/kpfafoliomay77paci |
KPFA Poetry Festival 1977, Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-, Cody, Fred., Hawkins, Bobbie Louise., Harris, Jana, 1947-, Henderson, David, 1942-, Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata, 1949-, Bly, Robert., Schwartz, Max, Dorn, Edward., Kyger, Joanne., MacAdams, Lewis., Ortiz, Simon J., 1941-, Cruz, Victor Hernandez, 1949-, Reed, Ishmael, 1938-, Alta, 1942-, McClure, Michael., McClure, Michael. Beard, Soldofsky, Alan., Poetry reading, Beat generation -- Poetry, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | AZ0079 | |
| The Treatment of cancer / produced by Bonnie Bellow. (Episode 3 of 11) |
Three doctors, all heads of their departments in their respective fields of surgery, radiology and chemo-therapy, discuss the major forms of orthodox cancer treatment. The guests are Dr. Morton Axelrod, Chief of Oncology at the Bronx Lebanon Hospital; Dr. Bernard Roswith, Chief of the Radiation Center at the Bronx Veteran's Hospital, and Dr. Myron Arlen, Chief of Neoplastic Surgery at the Jewish Hospital and Medical Center of Brooklyn and the host is Bonnie Bellow. |
Medical care -- United States., Cancer, Cancer -- Technological innovations., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | BC2249.03 | |
| Cooking with author Li Ling-Ai |
Nina Mende interviews Chinese-Hawaiian writer, lecturer and actor Li Ling-Ai (1908 - ?), author of the memoir "Life Is for a Long Time," as she gives a Chinese cooking lesson. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Li, Ling-Ai, Authors, Chinese-American., Asian American women, Asian American actresses | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | IZ1466 | |
| The Velvet Sledgehammer: Interview with Judith Malina |
Production reel of a May 24, 1984 interview with Judith Malina by Judy Pasternak. Malina also some excerpts from her diaries. Interview broadcast on the June 20 and 27, 1984 episodes of The Velvet Sledgehammer. No intro, outro, nor additional material on the tape. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Malina, Judith., Actresses., Experimental theater -- New York (City)., Theater -- Political aspects., Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.) | American Women -- Theater | IZ1094 | |
| CBS blows it! / Pacy Markman interviewed by Clare Spark |
On April 26, 1980, CBS-TV aired a documentary titled "Gay power, gay politics," that supposedly described the influence gays had on Diane Feinstein's mayoral campaign in San Francisco in 1979, among other things. It was a badly biased piece of reporting and seemed a major set-back for the struggle for gay rights. Clare Spark discusses this with Pacy Markman, chief political strategist for the Feinstein campaign. Includes a description of the CBS program, and phone calls from listeners that add to the discussion. KPFK. |
Markman, Pacy, Gays -- San Francisco (Calif.)., Gays in the mass media., Gays -- Political activity., Columbia Broadcasting System, inc., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Film and television, American Women -- Politicians and politics | KZ0867 | |
| Media review: May 30, 1981- Nicholas Johnson and Christie Hefner |
This episode contains two segments: 1. Former Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson on television, violence and the recent attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. Speech recorded at the 100th anniversary program of the New Jersey Institute of Technology; 2. Christie Hefner from Playboy Magazine is interviewed by Brennan Jones. She discusses the Playboy philosophy and the First Amendment in the age of the Moral Majority. Self contained. Master by (Dave?) Metzger. |
Johnson, Nicholas, 1934-, Hefner, Christie, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex | IZ0383.11 | |
| Maud Gonne |
An original dramatic performance based on the life of Maud Gonne, actress, revolutionary and extravagant muse who haunted the poetry of William Butler Yeats. Written and produced by Barbara Kraft. Music by William Kraft, featuring a song sung by Victoria Bond. Featuring Julie Adams as Maud Gonne, Lee Bergere as William Butler Yeats, Judith Chaikin as Elizabeth, Norma Connolly as Mrs. McFadden, and Robert Carricart, Jr. as John B. Yeats and Father Stephens. Music recorded by Rick Brolver; sound effects, Paul Fagen; recording engineer, Tom Sanford. Maude Gonne was produced in the studios of Pacifica Radio KPFK in Los Angeles by Barbara Kraft, with the assistance of Paul Fagen, Rick Bralver, and Everett Frost. Winner of Ohio State Award, 1973. |
Ohio State awards., Radio plays., Gonne, Maud, 1866-1953, Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Kraft, Barbara S. | American Women -- Theater, American Women -- International women | BC0847 | |
| Washington report-July 27, 1971: Underground syndicate / Thomas King Forcade |
Washington based U.P.S. correspondent Thomas King Forcade (1945-1978) discusses alternative jounalism. Interview by Margot Adler. |
Forçade, Thomas King, Alternative press., Journalists., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | BC0019.25 | |
| Sexual politics today |
Sexual Politics Today : Produced by WBAI. Recorded on April 10, 1978. Psychotherapist Diane Kraft Kadish speaks with Psychoanalyst Joel Kovel and Historian Anne Snitow on the social and psychological barriers to love and relationships between men and women. Broadcast on April 10, 1978. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Love -- Analysis., Man-woman relationships, Kovel, Joel, 1936-, Snitow, Ann Barr, 1943- | American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy, American Women -- Marriage and divorce | IZ0502 |