The page includes more than 120 individual audio clips featuring Baraka reading his poems from 1964 - 2007. That's more than four decades of the same poet reading.
The recordings have him reading in Newark, Buffalo, and San Francisco, among other places. There are recordings of his full readings, and then the individual poems from those readings are presented as separate clips.
The identifying information such as "From the Dodge Poetry Festival, Waterloo, New Jersey, 2002" and "Reading with Diane Di Prima, recorded by the Naropa Institute, July 26, 1978" make the collection particularly informative.
Listening to poems gives you a sense of Baraka's evolving style as a poet-reader-performer. The poet who reads "Snake Eyes" in 1964 sounds almost timid in comparison to the poet who reads "Dope" in 1978.
At some point, wordless phrasings, shouts, hums, and singing became elements of Baraka's readings, and the catalog on PennSound documents some of that.
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