Saturday, January 31, 2015

30 Amiri Baraka poems on YouTube

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Back in 2011, I produced a list of Baraka poems on YouTube. Back then, I just listed 10 poems. Here, I list 30. Later, I'll add more. 

• "Against Bourgeois Art"
• "Africa"/"Why's/Wise"
• "AM/TRAK"  
• "Black Art"
• "Class Struggle in Music I" - with David Murray and Steve McCall
• "Dope" - A reading of the poem in 1980. 
• "Dope
• "Heathens"
• "Heathens"
• "I Love Music (For John Coltrane)
• "In the Funk World
• "In the Tradition"
• "It's Nation Time"
• "Madness" - from Black & Beautiful, Soul & Madness 
• "Money"
• "Obama Poem" - recorded live on Feb. 21, 2009. Rob Brown on saxophone.
• "Ode to Obama" - from a series presented by the Associated Press acknowledging Obama's inauguration.
• "Revelations" - read at memorial for Gus Heningburg.
• "RhythmBlues"
• "Somebody Blew Up America" - recorded live on Feb. 21, 2009. Rob Brown on saxophone.
• "Somebody Blew Up America" -  at Riverside Church in Harlem, New York City. September 9, 2011.
• "Something In The Way Of Things (In Town)" - the poem that appears on the Roots album, Phrenology.
• "Something in the Way of Things (In Town)" - recorded live on Feb. 21, 2009. Rob Brown on saxophone.
• "Something in the Way of Things (In Town)" - Eastside Cultural Center, July 28, 2012. Reggie Workman on bass.
• "The X Is Black
• "Un Poco Loco" - Baraka selections from his "low coup" with saxophonist Ron Brown.
• "Wailers" - From Poetry in Motion (1982) by Ron Mann
• "Who Will Survive America?" - A recording from Baraka's 1972 album.
• "Why is We American?" -
• "Why's/Wise" -  recorded live on Feb. 21, 2009. Rob Brown on saxophone.

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