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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| An eclectic evening with Rosalyn Drexler and David Shapiro |
This is part one of a performance which was presented live in Studio C at WBAI in November 1972. In Part One, David Shapiro plays the violin and reads his poetry and that of his young students from Bedford-Stuyvesant. In Part Two, Rosalyn Drexler sings torch songs from the 1920s and 1930s, and reads excerpts from her novels. Mimi Anderson gives the introduction, and is the producer of the program. Engineered by Bill Taylor, Nancy Allen and Susan Sheftel. |
Drexler, Rosalyn, Shapiro, David, 1947-, Women authors, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1390 | |
| Rise gonna rise : a portrait of Southern textile workers / Mimi Conway interviewed by Dorothy Healey |
Mimi Conway describes the present status of the unionization of textile workers in the South. She discusses how she became involved in the textile industry, why it is difficult to organize today, J. P. Stevens, what we can do to help, and how she came to write "Rise gonna rise: a portrait of Southern textile workers" (New York: Anchor Press, 1979). Interviewed by Dorothy Healey, KPFK. Contains sensitive language. |
Healey, Dorothy, 1914-2006, Conway, Mimi., Women authors, Textile industry -- Southern states., Labor unions -- Textile workers -- Southern states., Rise gonna rise : a portrait of Southern textile workers / by Mimi Conway ; interviewed by Dorothy Healey., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Work and unions | KZ0734 | |
| With these your eyes you shall recover : the Navajo blanket |
Curators Anthony Berlant and Mary Hunt Kahlenberg discuss their exhibition of Navajo blankets at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on July 14, 1972, which traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe. They talk with Clare Spark about the technical and social relevance of Native textiles and raise important issues about utility, non-alienation and the artist in society. The conversation is interwoven with poems, chants, stories and excerpts from a recent article on strip mining in Black Mesa which underlines the decline of the blanket as a result of cultural and economic imperialism. Program includes readings from the following publications: the exhibit catalog entitled "The Navajo Blanket," to be published by LACMA and Praeger Press; "Navajo Wildlands: as long as the river shall run," a Sierra Club Ballantine book; "Masked gods: Navajo and Pueblo ceremonialism" by Frank Waters, published by Ballantine; the July/August edition of "Art in America," a special issue on the American Indian. Readings performed by Ruth Buell and Larry Moss. The program contains the following Navajo ceremonial chants: Song of the Yei Bi Chei (Yébîchai), Silversmith song, Spinning dance, Woman's song, Corn grinding songs, Chant of the enemy way, Squaw dance song, Peyote song, Circle dance songs, and Farewell love song. The Yei Bi Chei (Yébîchai) ceremony is performed to treat patients afflicted with eye trouble, ear trouble, or paralysis of some part of the body. This program was produced, written, and directed by Clare Spark Loeb for KPFK and Pacifica Radio. |
Indians of North America -- Art., Arts and society., Navajo Indians -- Art., Native Americans., Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt, Navajo Indians., Navajo blankets., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | BC1000 | |
| An interview with Yuri Kochiyama / produced by Miya Iwataki. |
On May 19, 1982, KPFK celebrated Malcolm X's birthday with special programming on the civil rights leader. As part of this celebration, Miya Iwataki conducted a telephone interview with Yuri Kochiyama about the impact of Malcolm X on Asians. Kochiyama discusses the fateful day that Malcolm X was assassinated and her feelings as a person present on the stage when Malcolm X was assassinated. Kochiyama worked with Malcolm X on civil rights efforts in New York. This program was broadcast live as it was created on KPFK, then later replayed on the KPFK program East Wind on their show May 19, 1982, with an added introduction and pre-recorded music. |
Kochiyama, Yuri, Iwataki, Miya, JAPANESE AMERICANS, Asian Americans--Civil rights--History, X, Malcolm, 1925-1965, East wind, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Activists | KZ1209 | |
| May Swenson reads at the Poetry Center |
This is a recording of May Swenson (1913 - 1989) reading from her own work at the YM-YWHA Poetry Center in New York City. On Part 1, Swenson reads Living Tenderly, The Surface, Fountain Piece, The Exchange, The Engagement, Death, Great Smoothener, At First, At Last (introduced as A Diagram of Life), The Lightning, Working on Wall Street, Snow in New York, A Bird's Life, The Watch, A Fixture, To Make a Play, and Italian Sampler. On Part 2, Swenson reads The Centaur, Flying Home from Utah, and While Seated in a Plane. The reading took place on December 16, 1965. |
Swenson, May., Poetry., Women poets, Poetry reading, Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA (New York, N.Y.), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Lesbians | BB3804.09 | |
| Population report / produced and narrated by Elsa Knight Thompson and Dale Minor |
Program produced and narrated by Elsa Knight Thompson. Readings of articles about the world's population problem. Recording ends with "...of his own existence is at stake." |
Overpopulation., Birth control, Reproductive rights, Chandrasekhar, S. (Sripati), 1918-2001, Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975., Cook, Robert C. (Robert Carter), 1898-1991, Bennett, John C. (John Coleman), 1902-1995, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights, American Women -- Religion | BB0043 | |
| Rhyme and reason |
English actress Rohan McCullough is interviewed by Barbara Kraft and discusses and then reads from her one-woman poetry entertainments. Includes readings from the works of W.B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice, E.E. Cummings, Dorothy Parker and Barbara Kraft. Produced by Barbara Kraft. |
Poetry., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Theater | BC1776 | |
| Visions: sculptor Altina interviewed by Pam Peabody |
WPFW's Visions, a series on visual arts, features an interview with Altina (Schinasi), sculptor of portrait chairs and benches, and with Joan Mister, assistant director of Washington Women's Art Center. Altina talks about her background studying with George Grosz and about the work in her current show at the Touchstone Gallery. Both are interviewed by Pam Peabody, program producer. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Altina, 1907-, Women artists | American Women -- Art and artists | WZ0295.01 | |
| Haywood Burns: defense attorney for Angela Davis |
Talk on developments in the trial of Angela Davis. Intro: Next we hear a talk by Haywood Burns, one of the defense attorney's for Angela Davis. This talk, describing the progress of the case to date, was recorded last Friday night (March 26) at the militant labor forum. Outro: "Recap" Previously cataloged as "Heywood Byrns." |
Trials (Political crimes and offenses) -- United States., Blacks -- Legal status, laws, etc., Burns, W. Haywood (William Haywood), 1940-1996, Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Black Panther Party, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Politicians and politics | BB4331 | |
| 13th Moon: A reading of feminist literature |
This program is a live reading sponsored by feminist literary magazine "13th Moon," recorded on March 18, 1981 in Washington Heights. Reading opened by 13th Moon's publisher Ellen Marie Bissert. Readers include poet Robin Morgan (b. 1941) and novelist Alix Kates Shulman (1932). Broadcast on March 18, 1981. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Shulman, Alix Kates, Morgan, Robin, 1941-, Feminist poetry, Women authors, Feminist literature., Feminist magazine | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ0420 |