50 Amiri Baraka poems on YouTube

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Here we go, an update to my previous roundup of Amiri Baraka poems on YouTube, including 12 versions of his poem "Somebody Blew Up America." 

• "Against Bourgeois Art"
• "Africa"/"Why's/Wise"
• "All Songs Are Crazy" - October 8, 2010
• "AM/TRAK"
• "Beautiful Black Woman" (1972)
• "Black Art"
• "Class Struggle in Music I" - with David Murray and Steve McCall
• "Come Back Pharoah"  (1972)
• "Dope" - A reading of the poem in 1980. 
• "Dope"
• "Fashion This, From the Irony of The World" - recorded live on Feb. 21, 2009. Rob Brown on saxophone.
• "Heathens"
• "Heathens"
• "I Liked Us Better"
• "I Love Music (For John Coltrane)" 
• "In the Funk World" 
• "In the Tradition"
• "It's Nation Time"
• "Madness" - from Black & Beautiful, Soul & Madness 
• "Money"
• "Nightmare Bush'It Whirl" 
• "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.
• "Play Dat" - The Long Center, Austin, Texas, 2012.
• "Revelations" - read at memorial for Gus Heningburg.

• "Rockefeller's Your Vice-President and Your Mama Don't Wear No Draws"
• "RhythmBlues"
• "Somebody Blew Up America" - Furious Flower poetry conference, Virginia, 2004
• "Somebody Blew Up America" - Denver, Colorado, 2004.  
• "Somebody Blew Up America" - Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC, 2006. 
• "Somebody Blew Up America" - Stone, New York City, March 6, 2007. 
• "Somebody Blew Up America" - Hibernian Hall in Roxbury, Massachusetts, November 2008.
• "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.
• "Somebody Blew Up America" - Bologna, Italy, June 27, 2013 
• "Somebody Blew Up America" 
• "Somebody Blew Up America"
• "Somebody Blew Up America" 
• "Somebody Blew Up America"  
• "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.
• "Something in the Way of Things (In Town)" 
• "The X Is Black" 
• "This little light of mine" - Bohemian Caverns, Washington, D.C., Februrary 2011
• "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.

Extra:
Below, thanks to a tip from scholar James Smethurst, I've added the tracks from William Parker's I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield (2010) that feature Baraka reading.
• "Move on Up"
• "I'm So Proud / Ya He Yey Ya"
• "People Get Ready"
• "This is My Country"
• "Freddie's Dead"
• "We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue" 


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