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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Kyrgyz woman interviewed by William Mandel |
Rosa, a Kyrgyz woman in her thirties, describes how her schoolteacher mother managed to raise 12 children, details the government's assistance, the fact that several brothers and sisters, including herself, are college graduates, and answers the typically American question of William Mandel and his wife Tania about whether so many kids don't make a woman a brood-sow and don't adversely affect her heath. The following week, Mandel broadcast the continuation of the interview with this woman, which can be found in AZ0356. ,Previously titled "Soviet woman interviewed by William Mandel." |
Women -- Soviet Union., Women, Kyrgyz, Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz -- Social life and customs -- 20th century, Mothers -- Soviet Union, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Parenting and children | AZ0358 | Kyrgyz woman interviewed by William Mandel |
| Lady Randolph Churchill / by Anita Leslie interviewed by Eleanor Sully |
Anita Leslie, the author of "Lady Randolph Churchill: the story of Jennie Jerome," talks with Eleanor Sully about her recently published book. Jennie Jerome was Winston Churchill's American-born mother and Miss Leslie is her great neice. The book was published by Scribner in 1969. |
Leslie, Anita., Biography, Churchill, Randolph Spencer, Lady, 1854-1921, Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Relatives of notable men | BB2789 | |
| Language and attitude / Richard Tansey. (Episode 10 of 12) |
The first Sunday morning, April 11, speaker at the symposium "The Uncertain Quest - The Dilemmas of Sex Education," produced by and held at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco and simulcast on KPFA, is Richard G. Tansey (1919-1998), Ph.D., Professor of Art at San Jose State College. He delivers a talk on the problem of communication in sex education, and attitudes towards the "obscene" and taboo words used to describe sex. |
Sex instruction, Tansey, Richard G., Adolescent psychology., Teenagers -- Sexuality., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex | BB0722.10 | |
| Latvian women / William Mandel |
Interview with a 36-year old woman of white formerly-tribal Livonian minority within Latvia, which is in turn a republic of the Soviet Union. Born into an extremely poor family of fisherfolks "bread was a holiday dish" (they lived on potatoes and a little fish). She now has a PhD and studies relationships people-to-people among socialist nations. The interview was conducted in the Soviet Union, and listener phone-ins occurred in the U.S. during broadcast. Interview portion of the tape contains Latvian woman's speech on right channel, Mandel's English translation on left channel. |
Latvia., Mandel, William M., Minorities -- Soviet Union., Women -- Soviet Union., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Livonians | American Women -- International women | AZ0136.04 | |
| Laurie Anderson on her music / interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian |
Noted experimental musician Laurie Anderson discusses her music, the development of ideas, and the use of odd and modified instruments. Anderson also discusses the influence on her by Vito Acconci and William Burroughs. Includes performances of Anderson's "New York Social Life," "Language of the Future," and "Time to Go." Recorded in her New York studio on March 11, 1979. Restricted distribution rights. Contains performance of copyrighted music. RECORDED: KPFA, 11 Mar. 1979. |
Anderson, Laurie, 1947-, Musicians -- Personal narratives., Experimental music., Amirkhanian, Charles., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Poetry | AZ1008 | Laurie Anderson on her music / interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian |
| Laying down the tower / Marge Piercy. |
Poet, novelist and activist Marge Piercy (1936 - ) reads her eleven-poem sequence Laying Down the Tower, a radical meditation on the ancient symbols of the tarot deck - a political reading for the overturning of a repressed society. No intro or outro, and sound mostly audible in left channel only. |
Poetry., Women poets, Piercy, Marge., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC0665 | |
| Lena Horne / interviewed by Gene De Alessi. |
"Lena: a sound portrait of a multifaceted lady." Lena Horne (b. June 30, 1917; d. May 9, 2010) is interviewed at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel by KPFA's Gene De Alessi in conjunction with the release of her autobiography. She was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio, and went on to achieve international fame as a singer. In this recording she discusses her life and career, civil rights, Billie Holiday, Joe Lewis, Humphrey Bogart, and other people in her life. |
Horne, Lena, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American Women, Women artists, African American women entertainers, Women singers, African Americans--Civil rights--History | American Women -- Music and musicians | BB0921 | Lena Horne / Interviewed by Gene Dealessi, 1966 (CD) |
| Lenore Kandel and Stephen Vincent; introduced by Dave Gitty |
POETS THEATRE / Lenore Kandel and Stephen Vincent read their own work. Miss Kandel also reads a statement of poetics and Mr. Vincent reads a selection from a novel by Babatunde Lawal, a young Nigerian author. Recorded as part of the weekly poetry series at the Straight Theater in San Francisco. David Gitin is the emcee. BROADCAST: KPFA, 17 September 1968. Contains sensitive language. |
Vincent, Stephen, 1941-, Kandel, Lenore, Poetry., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Poetry reading, Straight Theater, Lawal, Babatunde, 1942- | American Women -- Poetry | BB1989.01 | |
| Lesbian and gay employment rights conference / produced by Katherine Davenport. |
A recording of the Lesbian and Gay Employment Rights Conference, sponsored by The Lesbian Rights Project at the Hastings Law School in San Francisco on June 15, 1985. This is a one hour program consisting of six panelist discussions of various aspects of the gay employment discrimination issue. The panel is hosted by Roberta Ackenberg, the directing attorney for The Lesbian Rights Project, Larry Brinkin, Union Activist and plaintiff in Brinkin vs. Southern Pacific Railroad, Matt Coles, local attorney and author of San Francisco, Berkeley and Los Angeles anti-discrimination ordinances and author of Domestic Partnership ordinance, Walter Johnson, from the Department Store Employees Union local 1110, Carmen Vasquez, community organizer with Community United Against Violence, Larry Bush, journalist and Lisa Katz, Coordinator of the AB1 Documentation Project and former lobbyist for NOW, and Anne Marie Wagstaff for Fairness for Lesbians and Gays. Recorded by Katharine Davenport at KPFA. Music performed by the Berkeley Women's Music Collective and Charlie Murphy. This recording was formerly cataloged as IZ0381. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lesbians -- Laws and legislation, Gays--Employment, Discrimination in employment -- United States. | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Lesbians | AZ1755 | Gay And Lesbian Employment Conference (CD) |