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| Date |
Venue |
City |
Show Quality |
Sound Quality |
Source |
Notes |
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??/??/39
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The Tiny Terror
N/A, N/A |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
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??/??/39
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Ernest Hemingway Reads
Unknown, Unknown |
1 TAPE |
|
A |
|
One of Ernest Hemingway's deadliest enemies was The Microphone?but over the years, under special circumstances, Ernest did record a few things for me on an old Webster wire recorder that he kept in his finca in Cuba, and on a transistorized pocket recorder called a Midgetape which we took on our travels. These wires and tapes, imperfect though they are, are virtually the only record we have of his voice. (The one exception is his acceptance of the Nobel Prize which was recorded by a Havana radio station.) Recordings made between 1948-1961. |
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??/??/57
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Hemingway: The Legend and the Sea
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
A brief documentary on fishing with Hemingway |
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??/??/78
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First Lady of Manawaka
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
One of Canada's most celebrated authors, Margaret Laurence was born in a small Prairie town in Manitoba. The film traces her life from the early days. The images of her small Presbyterian home town still haunt her, as they haunt the characters whom we meet through readings from her work by Canadian actress Jayne Eastwood. The film blends fact with fiction to give its audience a strong impression of who this very private person really is. |
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??/??/81
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Darts in the Dark
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
Scenes of Mitchell the performer, Mitchell the family man, Mitchell the teacher, and Mitchell talking about himself and his work alternate with evocative passages from his books, read against scenes from the prairies and foothills that are his inspiration. |
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??/??/84
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Famous Authors
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
This tribute video to author Charles Dickens is a concise biography of the English novelist from Kent. As part of the Famous Authors series from Kultur Films Incorporated, this tape includes excerpts from rare archives, portraits, and a study into the world and times of a writer extraordinaire known for his seasonal classic A Christmas Carol, as well as for other literary masterpieces such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations. |
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??/??/85
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Atwood and Family
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
This study of one of Canada's most elusive literary figures takes place during a quiet encounter on Atwood's island retreat. The author and the filmmaker discuss what shapes Atwood's fiction and what motivates her characters. |
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??/??/90
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Still Waters: The Poetry of P.K. Page
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
Still Waters: The Poetry of P.K. Page encapsulates the varied life of a Canadian woman who has reached international stature as both a painter and a poet. Her imagistic brilliance is here explored through the multiple places of her life and the several forms of her art. This film shows how the powerful works of P.K. Page extend beyond literature and painting into the realms of anthropology and ecology. |
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02/??/96
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A Literary Legend
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
Following the death of an important Canadian writer, we look at his characters, his own persona, and his writing. |
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|
??/??/96
|
Life & Times
N/A, N/A |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
He was a commanding presence, a man of many styles, many masks ? newspaper editor, journalist, scholar, actor, playwright, best-selling novelist and Canada?s eminent "man of letters."
International famous for his best-selling novels such as Fifth Business, The Manticore, What?s Bred in the Bone and A Mixture of Frailties, Robertson Davies was raised in Renfrew, Ontario. At the age of 14 he was sent to boarding school, a traumatic event in his life. Later, Davies went to Queen?s University in Kingston and then on to Oxford University in England.
In his youth, Davies was interested in the creation of illusion. He loved music and was fascinated by magic, demons, angels, guardian spirits and above all, theatre. Through his fiction, Davies integrated his many interests, all the contradictions of his rough small town background and the need for something higher, more spiritual and refined.
?This is a man who used his multiple talents and his multiple identities to explore his rural and city roots, his roots in the land, in the urbanity of the city and the cultures of the world,? said producer John McGreevy.
In 1940, Davies left England and returned to Canada with his new wife Brenda Mathews. He became editor of Saturday Night magazine and then editor of the Peterborough Examiner from 1941-61. Davies also wrote plays and was active in the creation and development of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. In 1961, he began teaching at Massey College at the University of Toronto.
Interviews include: Davies? wife Brenda; his secretary of 45 years, Moira Whalen; freelance editor Ramsey Derry; and Douglas Gibson, Davies? editor at McClelland & Stewart. |
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??/??/96
|
The Making of the Monster
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A |
|
A dark tower. A stormy night. An experiment challenging the limits of science. A monster is created--and forces are unleashed which the creator cannot control. Why are we still fascinated with Mary Shelley's nightmare? Vivid dramatizations and interviews illuminate the terrifying question that readers have been troubled by for centuries: Is there a little bit of Frankenstein's monster in all of us? |
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??/??/97
|
The Great American Dreamer
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
|
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??/??/97
|
A Life of Drama
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
Part of the Biography television series from A&E, this documentary explores the career and personal life of author William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare moved to London, possibly in 1591, and became an actor. From 1592 to 1594, when the theatres were closed for the plague, he wrote his poems "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece." At the same time he worked on his sonnets which were not published until 1609. The first evidence of his association with the stage is in 1594, when he was acting with the Lord Chamberlain's company of players, later "the King's Men'. When the company built the Globe Theatre south of the Thames in 1597, he became a partner. He returned to Stratford c.1610, living as a country gentleman at his house, New Place.
The modern era of Shakespeare scholarship has been marked by an enormous amount of investigation into the authorship, text, and chronology of the plays, including detailed studies of the age in which he lived, and of the Elizabethan stage. The video deals with this in depth. It is conventional to group his plays into early, middle, and late periods, and to distinguish comedies, tragedies, and histories, recognizing other groups that do not fall neatly into these categories.
Many of his works including Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and others, are considered the quintessential works in the English language and are still thoroughly studied today. |
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|
04/??/98
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A Canadian Storyteller
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
A giant in Canadian Literature, W.O. Mitchell was also an important contributor to the genre of story-telling. As a cultural "interpreter," Mitchell portrayed the Prairie way of life as well as Canadian life in general in the twentieth century. He was a writer with whom many Canadians identified in a very special way, however the universal themes - inherent in his work - of the interplay of the individual and society also gave him a presence in the international literary community. |
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??/??/98
|
Let It Come Down
Compilation, Compilation |
1 DVD |
|
A+ |
|
Expatriate American writer Paul Bowles came to the limelight with an adaptation to screen by Bernardo Bertolucci of his first novel The Sheltering Sky. Subsequently, ambitious documentarists from several countries went down to Tangiers, Morocco where Bowles has been living for more than 50 years to capture the last days of an aging artist and composer, who played an important role in shaping the artistic trends of the 20th century along with other celebrities such as Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and William S. Burroughs.
In this definitive film biography which took director Jennifer Baichwal more than four years to complete, the 87-year-old Bowles reflects on his life, work and friends while lying in bed at his home in Tangier smoking kif (cannabis) from an elegant black cigarette holder. Although his monologue serves as the structure of the film, director Baichwal cuts to archival footage of North Africa in the 1930s and 1940s to set the mood and uses the comments of late William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and David Herbert on Bowles and his work to counterbalance what Bowles says about the same issues. Moroccan writer Mohammed Choukri's harsh analysis of the expatriate scene in Morocco before Independence provides another perspective.
One of the highlights of the film is the exclusive footage of the last meeting of Bowles, Burroughs and Ginsberg in 1995 in a Manhattan hotel room in New York before the latter two passed away. This was Bowles's first visit to the U.S. in 33 years at the invitation of The EO Orchestra, which performed two sold-out performances of his music at the Lincoln Center. Let It Come Down is compact and well balanced. It avoids being voyeuristic, which is not easy to do considering the iconoclastic nature of its subject. Whether it brings the viewer closer to the enigmatic artist is arguable, simply because as Burroughs says of Bowles' autobiography, he might look like he's saying a lot about himself, but in fact, "he says nothing." |
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??/??/98
|
A&E - Wrestling with Life
N/A, N/A |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
This biography of the American writer Ernest Hemingway is aptly titled, since Hemingway was forever struggling with life. A mixture of outdoorsman and intellectual, Hemingway has become emblematic of a certain way of life in the 20th century. His personal style and his many written works have become intertwined in the public imagination. In this A&E portrait, both the man and the myth are examined in an illuminating way.
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??/??/98
|
Wounded Genius
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
The famed psychotherapist Carl Jung once observed that beneath the cultivated courtliness of Southern gentility lay a savage heart. Tennessee Williams exposed that underlying brutality in his plays, such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire. This program looks at the man and his work, both characterized by an attraction to the dark side of life. Archival clips and photographs show the playwright in New Orleans and in interviews. The personal recollections of family, friends, and colleagues give insight into Williams' troubled life, while literary critics discuss the merit of his work. |
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??/??/98
|
Gabrielle Roy
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
The first feature length documentary about one of Canada's most important woman of letters. A visual and intellectual delight. A tribute to the highly acclaimed literary works and fascinating life of Gabrielle Roy. |
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??/??/99
|
Voices & Visions
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
This program chronicles the life and works of beloved 19th century American poet, Emily Dickinson. The reclusive woman wrote around 1,700 poems, of which only 10 were published during her lifetime. Archival photography and a visit to Dickinson's Massachusetts home set the stage for readings from her works. In simple verse, she expressed deep feelings and insights, in poems such as Because I Could Not Stop for Death and A Certain Slant of Light. Scholars discuss the poet's importance in American letters. |
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|
11/00/00
|
A Canadian Novelist
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
Atwood?s latest novel The Blind Assassin, which won the internationally prestigious Booker Prize and at the time of this writing was nominated for the Governor General?s Award for literature, is the point of departure for reviewing the career of one of Canada?s leading novelists. As a strong model of Canadian literature and a major player on the literary scene internationally, Atwood and her work also represent an arts industry in which Canada has excelled in what many critics and observers see as a typically Canadian fashion. Atwood?s work especially integrates historical detail that emphasizes the Canadian experience. An interview with the author reveals issues and themes related to literature in general and CanLit in particular and explores the style of the Canadian genre and of the status that Canadians ascribe to their best fiction writers. |
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??/??/00
|
Famous Authors
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
This video, part of the Famous Authors series, examines the life and work of Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Born into an affluent family, Fitzgerald later used this wealthy background as the basis for some of his most famous fictional stories, including the classics The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, and Tender Is the Night. His novels are filled with characters who lived hard, fast lives in high society. Toward the middle of his life, after his wife Zelda went insane, Fitzgerald had a nervous breakdown that contributed to his death at age 44. This video captures the world of this troubled writer, featuring portraits, photographs, and archival material along with commentary from scholars about Fitzgerald and his work. |
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??/??/01
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The Magic Never Ends
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
Considered by many to be the greatest Christian writer of the 20th century, C.S. Lewis is also among the most popular and commercially successful authors of fantasy, science fiction, and fiction today. His 38 books have never been out of print and they now appear in numerous languages throughout the world. |
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??/??/01
|
Winter Dreams
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
Part of the PBS American Masters series, this documentary is a portrait of American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Born in St. Paul, MN, he wrote short stories and novels about the empty morals of rich Jazz age partygoers in the 1920s. Considered his finest achievement, The Great Gatsby questioned the values of success and the American dream. Troubled by alcoholism and his marriage to the ailing Zelda, F. Scott Fitzgerald remains one of the leading 20th century American literary figures. |
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??/??/02
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McLuhan's Wake
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
Visually dazzling film that blends animation, artful verite, vintage footage and computer effects to look at the life and visionary philosophy of Canadian intellectual Marshall McLuhan, and the impact of technology on today's society. |
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??/??/02
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An American Journey
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
Avon Kirkland's Ralph Ellison: An American Journey takes a close look at the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ralph Ellison. In addition to the expected array of experts that analyze Ellison's work, Kirkland intersperses dramatized scenes from Ellison's only novel Invisible Man, including the infamous blind battle royal that appears in the beginning of the book. |
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| Date |
Venue |
City |
Show Quality |
Sound Quality |
Source |
Notes |
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??/??/69
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Wake Up America!
Unknown, CA |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
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"Wake Up America!" |
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??/??/04
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Manhunt
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
|
A+ |
|
"The Hunt for Abbie Hoffman" |
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| Date |
Venue |
City |
Show Quality |
Sound Quality |
Source |
Notes |
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??/??/65
|
Acid Test Compilation
Various, Various |
4 CD-R |
|
A- |
|
Contains performances from Ken Kesey and Neal Cassady |
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| Date |
Venue |
City |
Show Quality |
Sound Quality |
Source |
Notes |
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??/??/49
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John Clellon Holmes's Apartment
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
|
A- |
|
|
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??/??/49
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Ginsberg/Kerouac Acetate
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
|
B |
|
The rarest recording that I own. This was a personal find. Exact date is unknown. |
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??/??/54
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Neal Cassady's Home
San Jose, CA |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
|
|
|
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03/18/56
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Town Hall Theater
Berkeley, CA |
1 CD-R |
|
A- |
|
The earliest known recording of 'Howl' |
|
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10/25/56
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Pacifica Studios
Berkeley, CA |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
|
First recorded performance of 'A Supermarket in California' |
|
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11/??/56
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Lawrence Lipton's Home
Los Angeles, CA |
1 CD-R |
|
A |
|
'Footnote to Howl' |
|
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02/05/59
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McMillan Theater
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
|
This is arguably the best-known recording to feature any beat-era poet. Although "Howl" is the centerpiece, the peripheral works -- especially the mantra-like "Footnote to Howl" and "Howl" (Part One)" -- are given empowering presentations that magnify the greatness that's inextricably inherent in both art and artist. Indeed, the genesis of Allen Ginsberg's brilliance as both poet and performer has rarely been equalled. The modern listener remains entranced by his vaudevillian sense of provocation as it couples with an unspoken, yet palpable obsession of a postmodern amphetamine-fuelled Shakespeare. The material is split between the live recitations of "Howl," "Sunflower Sutra," and the opening section from "Kaddish," which had been collectively documented at Ginsberg's "Big Table" readings during the 1959 Shaw Festival in Chicago. The other works consist of studio recordings made in June of 1959 in the Bay Area -- where the poet resided semi-permanently. |
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02/27/59
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The Library Of Congress Recording Laboratory
Washington, DC |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
|
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11/24/64
|
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
|
Complete performance of Ginsberg's important poem to his mother, 'Kaddish' |
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12/03/65
|
KQED-TV Studios
San Francisco, CA |
1 VCD |
|
A |
|
Bob Dylan press conference featuring questions from Allen Ginsberg |
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??/??/65
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Better Books Book Shop
London, England |
1 CD-R |
|
A |
|
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07/08/67
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The Festival Of Two Worlds
Spoleto, Italy |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
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12/??/68
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SUNY
Buffalo, NY |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
|
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06/??/69
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Apostolic Studios
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
|
Outtakes from the 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' sessions |
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??/??/69
|
Songs of Innocence & Experience
NA, NA |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
|
"Songs of Innocence & Experience" |
|
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12/03/70
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92nd Street YM & YWHA
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
|
A |
|
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07/02/71
|
The Richard Friedman Midnight Show
Berkeley, CA |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
|
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07/??/71
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Pacific High Studios
San Francisco, CA |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
|
Outtakes from the 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' sessions |
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10/??/71
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PBS-TV Studios
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
|
B+ |
|
"Ginsberg & Friends" PBS Special |
|
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??/??/71
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The Record Plant
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
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"Holy Soul Jelly Roll" outtakes with Bob Dylan |
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??/??/73
|
Chelsea Hotel
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
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??/??/73
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Poetry International Festival
Rotterdam, Holland |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
|
|
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03/13/74
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St. Marks Church
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
|
"Mind Breaths" |
|
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08/01/74
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
|
"Energy Vampire" |
|
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08/09/75
|
Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
|
Ginsberg reads "Howl" in its entirety, and other poems. |
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06/02/76
|
CBS Recording Studio 1
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
|
|
|
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06/16/76
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
|
Anne Waldman introduces the reading that includes Ginsberg performing "Howl," "A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley," and "Supermarket in California." |
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06/28/76
|
Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
|
Allen Ginsberg on William Carlos Williams and prosody. Included are discussions on Williams's poems: "Thursday," "To Elsie," "Horned Purple," and "The Term." This class also covers the importance of Williams to Robert Creeley and Williams's translations from Chinese. |
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07/23/76
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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08/02/76
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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08/06/76
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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08/07/76
|
Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
|
Ginsberg reads "Ayer's rock," "December 1974," "Hospital window," "C'mon Jack," "Don't grow old" and "Father death blues." |
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08/??/76
|
Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
|
Allen Ginsberg discusses politics, attitude, anxiety, aggression, and nonviolent action. Ginsberg discusses Rainer Maria Rilke with Philip Whalen, reads an improvised poem, asks a student to do the same, then discusses the process. The tape ends with some talk about Naropa's money problems. |
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02/28/77
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92nd Street Y's Poetry Center
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
|
"Poetry Center" |
|
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06/09/77
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
|
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12/01/78
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The Entermedia Theatre
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
|
A |
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The Nova Convention
|
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07/01/79
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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A reading by Allen Ginsberg performing William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Songs of Innocence includes: "The Shepherd," "The Echoing Green," "The Lamb," "The Little Black Boy," "The Blossom," "The Chimney Sweeper," "The Little Boy Lost," "The Little Boy Found," "Laughing Song," and "Holy Thursday." Songs of Experience includes: "Nurse's Song," "The Sick Rose," "Ah Sunflower," "The Garden of Love," "London," "The Human Abstract," "To Tirzah" and "The Grey Monk." |
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11/28/79
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De Kosmos
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
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12/06/79
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LOFT
Munich, Germany |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
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"Gate" |
|
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12/11/80
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Unknown
Wuppertal, Germany |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
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"Wupperthal" |
|
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12/??/80
|
Unknown
Unknown, Austria |
1 CD-R |
|
A+ |
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"German Tour 1980" |
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03/23/81
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
|
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03/26/81
|
Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
|
Allen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing William S. Burroughs's book Junky and his first meeting with Herman Hunke. Ginsbergs discusses passages from the book, including teaheads (page 17), informers (page 47), fags (page 72), the Rio Grande Valley (page 105) and interzone prototypes (page 111). Part 2 of a 20 part series. |
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03/30/81
|
Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
|
Allen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing letters from Neal Cassady and Ezra Pound, and Cassady's observations on Kerouac's book, "On the Road." Introduction also includes a discussion of Amiri Baraka's arrest and sentencing hearing and a chain poem about Ronald Reagan's attempted assasination. Part 3 of a 20 part series. |
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04/02/81
|
Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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Allen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing Jack Kerouac's ideas on the essentials of spontaneous prose, focusing on his writing process for On the Road. Ginsberg reads a number of passages from On the Road and discusses them. Part 4 of a 20 part series. |
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04/06/81
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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Allen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing Jack Kerouac's book On the Road. Topics covered include the influence of Buddhism and Existentialism, mass political consciousness, controversy over Kerouac's writing about African-Americans, and masculine love in America. Part 5 of a 20 part series. |
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04/09/81
|
Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
|
Allen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing Jack Kerouac's On the Road, reading passages from the book and discussing the life and writing of Kerouac and his friends in the early fifties. Ginsberg discusses the stylistic connections between the writers of the Beat generation. He talks about Kerouac, Burroughs, William Carlos Williams, Lou Welch, Philip Whalen, Jamie deAngulo and Herbert Huncke. Part 6 of a 20 part series. |
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04/13/81
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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Allen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, focusing on William Carlos Williams, Ginsberg, Lou Welch, Philip Whalen, Jaime deAngulo and Herbert Huncke. Part 7 of a 20 part series. |
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04/16/81
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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Literary History of the Beat Generation, Class #8, taught by Allen Ginsberg. Topics covered include the Berkeley Renaissance and the work of Herbert Huncke, Philip Lamantia, John Clellon Holmes, Gregory Corso, and Robert Creeley in the 1950's. |
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04/27/81
|
Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
|
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04/30/81
|
Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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05/04/81
|
Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
|
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05/14/81
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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05/18/81
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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05/21/81
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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05/25/81
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Allen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, examining the first manuscript of "Howl," pausing to explain the influence of Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West." Part 19 of a 20 part series. |
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05/28/81
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Allen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's. This final class in the series covers Christopher Smart's poem "Rejoice in the lamb," also known as "Jubilate agno." Ginsberg discusses poems from Gregory Corso's book Happy Birthday of Death, including "How happy I used to be" and "Power," and he examines Velimir Khlebnikov's poem "Incantation by laughter." Part 20 of a 20 part series. |
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05/??/81
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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06/10/81
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Bond's Casino
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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With The Clash |
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06/30/81
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Allen Ginsberg lecture on expansive poetics, focusing on the influences of Walt Whitman. He discusses Surrealism, Albert Einstein, Whitman, Federico Garcia Lorca, Paul Klebnikov, Christopher Smart, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane and Edgar Allen Poe. Ginsberg reads Lorca's "Ode to Salvador Dali," Whitman's "Reversals," "Respondez" and "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," Klebnikov's "Menagerie," Smart's "Rejoice of the lamb," and Crane's "The river." |
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07/07/81
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Available for download at archive.org |
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07/14/81
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Available for download at archive.org |
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08/11/81
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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11/14/81
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Columbia University
New York, NY |
2 CD-R |
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A |
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25th Anniversary Reading of 'Howl & Other Poems' |
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??/??/81
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ZBS Media
Ft. Edwards, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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??/??/81
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Free Reelin' Sound
Denver, CO |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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02/23/82
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Unknown
Santa Monica, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Studio Recording With Bob Dylan |
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06/01/82
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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07/23/82
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Allen Ginsberg workshop for On the road: The Jack Kerouac conference, sponsored by the Naropa Institute. Ginsberg discusses word choices, vividness, juxtaposition, sound, epics, the concept of "first thought, best thought" and Buddhism. Ginsberg discusses rhythm, poetry and rhyme. The workshop ends with a question and answer session. |
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07/24/82
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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An Allen Ginsberg workshop featuring student poetry readings. There is also a discussion about style and ordinary mind. This workshop took place during the 1982 Jack Kerouac Conference at the Naropa Institute. |
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07/27/82
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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The opening session of On the road: The Jack Kerouac conference sponsored by the Naropa Institute. Allen Ginsberg, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and others make welcoming remarks and introduce films that were shown at the event. |
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07/??/82
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Allen Ginsberg talks about writing techniques. At the beginning of the workshop, he describes the Naropa custom of bowing to begin an event. This workshop took place during the 1982 Jack Kerouac Conference at the Naropa Institute. |
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01/23/83
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Kulturhuset
Stockholm, Sweden |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"Meditation Rock" |
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01/??/83
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Unknown
Bergen, Norway |
3 CD-R |
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A |
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"Burgen" |
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10/10/83
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Allen Ginsberg class on steps of revising autobiographical poems. The class includes readings of Hart Crane and Percy Shelley and discussions about Gregory Corso, Basil Bunting, and Ezra Pound. The class also includes discussions and reviews of student work. |
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11/14/83
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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11/??/83
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Allen Ginsberg lecture on poetry, reading and discussing the lyrics to some of Bob Dylan's songs, talking about how to arrange lines of poetry on a page, and how phrasing relates to ideas and breath. Ginsberg looks at his own poem, "Wichita vortex sutra," and touches on the work of William Carlos Williams, Gregory Corso, and Kurt Schwitters's Concrete poetry. Part of a course series by Ginsberg in fall 1983. |
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??/??/83
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First Blues
Various, NA |
2 CD-R |
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A |
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"First Blues" |
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??/??/83
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Melkweg
Amsterdam, Holland |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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07/04/84
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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??/??/84
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Unknown
Smyrna Beach, FL |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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07/10/85
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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An Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman and Steven Taylor performance. Waldman reads "Artemis," Mother's curse," "Thoughts of the dolphin," "Duality," and other poems. Ginsberg reads his poetry and sings William Blake poetry and other songs. Taylor provides musical accompaniment. |
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05/22/86
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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??/??/86
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Bearsville Studios
Woodstock, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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06/25/87
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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z |
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07/13/87
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Available for download at archive.org |
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08/??/87
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A&R Studios
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Recorded in the late '80s, The Lion for Real consists primarily of brief poems set to avant-jazz. Producer Hal Willner has assembled a group that at various times features Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell and Arto Lindsay, and they skillfully navigate the emotional tones and wit in Ginsberg's poems. This doesn't contain any of Ginsberg's major works, but it's a welcome reminder of his irascible humor and mischievousness. |
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??/??/87
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Üvöltés
Budapest, Hungary |
1 CD-R |
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A |
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"Uvoltes" |
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07/10/88
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of a performance of music and poetry with Steven Taylor, Anne Waldman, and Allen Ginsberg. Taylor sings "Who pays the piper calls the tune," "King cotton," and others. Waldman's performance includes "Artemis," "Mother's curse," and "Cut." |
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07/08/89
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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07/25/89
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Ginsberg sings two songs and reads "Plutonium ode," "Guru blues," and other selections. |
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??/??/89
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The William S. Burroughs River City Reunion
Lawrence, KS |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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??/??/90
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Hydrogen Jukebox
Studio, Studio |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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With Philip Glass
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07/12/91
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Included in this reading are Ginsberg's "After the Big Parade" and the first reading of "Fall of America." |
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07/17/91
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West End Tavern
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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z |
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06/30/92
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Second half of a performance with Steven Taylor, Anne Waldman, Paula Gunn Allen, and Allen Ginsberg. Taylor opens singing several songs including "London" by William Blake, set to music by Tuli Kupferberg. Waldman reads excerpts from Iovis and Kaliyuga Blues. Paula Gunn Allen's performance includes "Never cry uncle," "Heyoka (Coyote tale)," "Koshkalaka (Ceremonial dyke)," "That's a switch or so she said," and "Quien es que anda (Who is it that's walking)." Ginsberg reads "After the big parade" and other poems and sings several songs accompanied by Steven Taylor, including "Heart failure blues" and William Blake's "The nurse's song." |
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07/20/92
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Panel on counter-poetics and opposition with Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Lamborn Wilson. Waldman begins by reading an excerpt from Columbus's journal describing how easy it will be to exploit the people of the Americas. She proposes a program for incorporating political activism into poetics. The panelists make individual statements about counter-poetics and move to more open discussion. They propose definitions for the term and look at how to be oppositional in relation to racism, eurocentrism, and political oppression. The panel includes a reading by Peter Lamborn Wilson of his sermonette "Critique of the listener." |
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07/25/92
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Ginsberg reads "Howl" and "Footnote to Howl." |
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??/??/92
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Unknown
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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With Philip Glass |
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??/??/93
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Hulen
Bergen, Norway |
2 CD-R |
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A+ |
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??/??/94
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Holy Soul Jelly Roll
Various, NA |
4 CD-R |
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A+ |
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This astounding aural compendium features the collected recordings of beat poet/writer/activist Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg's contribution to post-World War II literature and culture is incalculable. Each of the four volumes is presented with a rough chronology of materials -- ranging from professional to very private recordings. |
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05/04/95
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Knitting Factory
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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05/05/95
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Knitting Factory
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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05/06/95
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Knitting Factory
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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05/09/95
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Knitting Factory
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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05/10/95
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Knitting Factory
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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05/??/95
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Knitting Factory
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"Knitting Factory '95" |
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07/12/95
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Allen Ginsberg reading of "Pup Tent," "Newt Gingrich," "Skeleton Key," and new words to "Amazing Grace" |
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??/??/95
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Mexico City Blues
Unknown, NA |
4 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Allen reads Kerouac's collected 'Mexico City Blues' |
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06/21/96
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg lecture on dharma poetics, including discussions of Lewis Carroll and six impossible ideas before breakfast, poetry as Siddhi, the importance of writers making connections, writing from inside one's own death, Bodhissattva vows and human compassion, poetry as sacrament, the founding of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and various anecdotes. The lecture ends with Ginsberg reciting the Prajna Paramita sutra. |
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07/03/96
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of an Allen Ginsberg lecture on English and American lyric poetry. Ginsberg reads William Blake's "Let the brothels of paris be opened," "The gray monk," "The Mask of anarchy," "The ballad of Sir Patrick Spense," "The Holy land of walsingham" and "Weep you no more, sad fountains," followed by Thomas Wyatt's "My lute awake," "Forget not yet," "They flee from me," "Gasgoyne's lullaby" and "Tickborn's elegy."
Second half of an Allen Ginsberg lecture on English and American lyric poetry. Ginsberg reads Sir Walter Raleigh's "The lie," Christophr Marlowe's "The passionate shepherd to his love," Hector Berlioz and Giuseppe Verdi requiems, George Peel's "As when the rye reached to the chin" and "Hot sun, cool fire, tempered with sweet air, and Robert Southwell's "
The burning babe." |
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??/??/96
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Ballad of the Skeletons
NA, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Allen Ginsberg understood as well as anyone that, in the latter half of the 20th century, rock & roll would be the medium through which poetry and social commentary would reach the young and hungry masses. He eagerly hopped a ride on the bandwagon, collaborating with Dylan, the Clash, and Cornershop; setting William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience to music; and teaching "Eleanor Rigby" to his English classes at Brooklyn College. The boxed set Holy Soul Jellyroll proves that Ginsberg made himself, by sheer force of will, a highly effective though hardly conventional singer/songwriter. Apparently, however, he saved the best for last. The single The Ballad of the Skeletons, his final recorded release, is his musical masterpiece and deserves to be considered one of the most passionate, powerful, and articulate performances in the history of rock. Backed by a gang of high-profile pals (Philip Glass on keyboards; Lenny Kaye on bass; Paul McCartney on guitar, organ, and drums (!); plus crack session guitarists David Mansfield and Marc Ribot), Ginsberg intones the words of 66 skeletons, each of which represents some aspect of global (particularly American) society's cultural and political landscape. The skeletons snipe at each other and declare their own interests in a pageant that is both comic ("Said the Family Values skeleton/My family values mace") and macabre ("Said the Underdeveloped skeleton/Send me rice/Said Developed Nations skeleton/Sell your bones for dice"). In each verse, he cuts straight to the heart of the phenomenon in question with razor-keen perception, brutal simplicity, and deep wisdom. "Said the Middle Kingdom skeleton/We swallowed Tibet/Said the Dalai Lama skeleton/Indigestion's whatcha get." Perhaps most impressive is the way he deploys startling juxtapositions: "Said the Mirror skeleton/Hey good-looking/Said the Electric Chair skeleton/Hey what's cooking." Ginsberg never just reads. He cleverly varies the tone of his rich, electric voice to best suit each skeleton as he invokes it. The band follows suit, finding many opportunities to mix things up and thus keep the listener engaged over the song's eight minutes. The B-side, a brief plea on behalf of the homeless set to the tune of "Amazing Grace," is big-hearted but somewhat trite. It only serves to emphasize, by way of contrast, how amazing a piece of journalism/art "The Ballad of the Skeletons" is. Even in death, Allen Ginsberg remains the outraged, outrageous aesthetic and social conscience of our lunatic times. |
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??/??/97
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Odds & Ends
Various, NA |
1 CD-R |
|
A |
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Various recordings |
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??/??/02
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NY Blues
NA, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"NY Blues"
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07/26/78
|
Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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Baraka reads "Afro-American lyric," "Inside out," "I love music," "Malcolm remembered," "Against bourgeois art" and "Dope." |
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07/23/84
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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First half of an Amiri Baraka lecture on various subjects including poetry as the basis of all writing, William Shakespeare, dub poets, the United States in Grenada, Brahma, Mark Twain, slave writing, African syntax, and critical realism.
Second half of an Amiri Baraka lecture on various topics including structuralists and deconstructuralism, alienation, sorrow songs, Stevie Wonder, and content as principle. |
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07/25/84
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
|
First half of a class by Amiri Baraka on topics including Harlem, modernism, Langston Hughes, black literature, Civil War, abolition, reconstruction, Richard Wright, Black Arts Movement, the beat generation, and underground ideologies.
Second half of a class by Amiri Baraka on topics including black literature, Black Arts Movement, assassinations of the 1960's, colonialism, Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition, and a reading of the "Defeat Reagan" poem. |
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07/28/84
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of a class by Amiri Baraka. He discusses Langston Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance, Negritude, indigenisme and black modernism. He covers Hughes's life and writings including "Red haired baby," "Montage of a dream defined," and his translations. Baraka also talks about Haitian indigenisme poets, negritude poets Leon Damas and Aime Cesaire, including Cesaire's "Notes on return to my native land."
Second half of a class by Amiri Baraka. He reads and discusses the book, Confirmation: Anthology of African-African Women, including Margaret Walker, Jane Cortez, Dub Poets and Mikey Smith. |
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08/05/85
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of a class by Amiri Baraka on speech, rhythm, sound, and music. The discussion covers Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Prince, Amos Moore, John Cage, Robert Duncan, T.S. Eliot, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Max Roach, Allen Tate, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and German expressionism.
Second half of a class by Amiri Baraka on speech, rhythm, sound, and music. The class includes a
discussion of form over content, a tape of Miles Davis, and a performance by Poetic Justice including David Nelson and Pam
Donald. |
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08/07/85
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of a class by Amiri Baraka on revolution and art. The discussion covers Miles Davis, the Poetry Orchestra Project, formalism, relationship of society to art and film, satire vs. social protest, Ed Dorn, black literature, Henry Jones, W.E.B. DuBois, and Mark Twain.
Second half of a class by Amiri Baraka on revolution and art. Subjects include Harlem Renaissance, American modernism, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, music composition, and a discussion of his murdered sister. Works by the class are also included in the discussion. |
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08/09/85
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Amiri Baraka prepares a class for a musical performance. He creates a bass line, assigns students to categories of musical instruments, and tells them they will be playing against his recording of the bass line. He goes over basic rhythmic concepts. The tape ends abruptly. |
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07/20/92
|
Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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Panel on counter-poetics and opposition with Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Lamborn Wilson. Waldman begins by reading an excerpt from Columbus's journal describing how easy it will be to exploit the people of the Americas. She proposes a program for incorporating political activism into poetics. The panelists make individual statements about counter-poetics and move to more open discussion. They propose definitions for the term and look at how to be oppositional in relation to racism, eurocentrism, and political oppression. The panel includes a reading by Peter Lamborn Wilson of his sermonette "Critique of the listener." |
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07/25/92
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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Baraka reads "The mind of the president," "The best kept secret," "Masked angel costume," "Changes Changing," "X," "Funk lore," "I am" and other poems. |
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07/06/94
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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A lecture by Amiri Baraka on the politics of poetics. The lecture ends with a question and answer period covering topics such as jism and jazz, grants in music, whores, hypocrisy, Bob Dylan, and Noam Chomsky. |
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??/??/72
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92nd Street YM/YWHA Poetry Center
New York, NY |
1 TAPE |
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A |
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For many years the name Anais Nin was associated with the avant-garde and the literary underground. During the liberated 1960s she became widely recognized as a daring and innovative artist. Her work, at once familiar and exotic, is today considered among the important achievements of twentieth-century literature. Here she reads excerpts from her famous diary and answers questions. |
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07/05/88
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Andrei Codrescu reading "Memogasoline" |
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07/22/91
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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A lecture by Andrei Codrescu speaking about his experiences in Romania with National Public Radio during the Romanian revolution. |
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06/28/02
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Lecture by Andrei Codrescu focusing on writing and publishing, especially as it relates to his experience in Romania. He discusses publishing with a focus on small presses run by writers. The lecture follows Codrescu's personal history, moving to New York in the 1960s where he encountered the mimeograph as a printing press. The talk continues with the end of the mimeograph era and the beginning of the perfect bound printing methods of the 1980s and the electronic printing technology of the 1990s. |
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07/26/82
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First workshop of the Jack Kerouac conference, sponsored by the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Anne Charters (biographer and Kerouac Scholar) tells how Kerouac's books have influenced her and a generation. She goes into detail about his style and the influence he had on her as well as her works. Her main focus is on Kerouac's book On The Road and how the book should be seen as one of the most important American novels. |
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08/01/74
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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"Fast Speaking Woman" |
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08/09/75
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Waldman reads "Fast Speaking Woman" and other poems. |
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07/21/76
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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A class with Anne Waldman reading and discussing Frank O'Hara's poems, including: "Steps," "Ave Maria," and "In Memory of My Feelings." |
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08/07/76
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Waldman reads "Musical garden," "Energy crisis," "Boulder poem" and "Shaman hisses." |
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07/18/77
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Second half of a class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. This class is a brief history of female writers in Greece with a focus on Sappho. Sappho's poems are read in Greek as well as in translation. Sappho's life and work are discussed. |
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07/20/77
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of a class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. This class finishes the discussion of Sappho from her previous class (77P067-068), and then moves into the writer HD. The bulk of the class is about the history and writing of HD. Toward the end the class is introduced to Robert Graves's "The White Goddess" and to Gertrude Stein.
Second half of a class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. This class is about Emily Dickinson. Her life and work are discusssed in great detail. Anne reads Dickinson's work and offers information on Dickinson's biography, poetry, and letters. |
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07/25/77
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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First half of a class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. This class comtinues the discussion of Emily Dickinson. Poems and letters are read by Anne Waldman. The class also continues the discussion of the goddess in female writing and is introduced to the work and artistry of Jane Austen.
Second half of a class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. The entire class is Anne reading selections from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. |
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07/27/77
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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First half of a class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. The class consists of notes on Jane Austen and readings of her work, discussion of Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys, and a discussion of the goddess and her role in women's writings. Readings make up most of the class.
Second half of a class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. The entire class is Anne reading selections from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. |
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08/01/77
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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A class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. The class is introduced to the life and work of Monique Wittig. She also finishes notes on Jane Austen. Toward the end of the lecture, Anne Waldman introduces the class to the life and work of Viginia Woolf, and there is a little more about HD (Hilda Doolittle). |
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08/15/77
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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A class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977, focusing on the life and work of Gertrude Stein. The class includes student discussion with Waldman lecturing on Stein's life and style of writing, readings from Stein's books Lifting Belly, Three Lives, and Tender Buttons, and a brief introduction to the plays of Christopher Knowles. |
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08/17/77
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of the final class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. Waldman continues the discussion about Gertrude Stein that began in the August 15th class. She reads excerpts from Stein's book Lifting Belly, "A piece of coffee" from Stein's book Tender Buttons, followed by Stein's comments on "A piece of coffee." Waldman also reads some of Clark Coolidge's work and compares it to that of Stein. The final part of the class is devoted to student presentations. |
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07/10/85
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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An Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman and Steven Taylor performance. Waldman reads "Artemis," Mother's curse," "Thoughts of the dolphin," "Duality," and other poems. Ginsberg reads his poetry and sings William Blake poetry and other songs. Taylor provides musical accompaniment. |
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07/23/85
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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An Anne Waldman lecture on the use of the cut-up technique in the work of William S. Burroughs, tracing it from its early development through his later work. She reads from Burroughs's writing and an interview with him in The Paris Review, plays his cut-up tapes, and talks about how Burroughs extended the idea of cut-ups beyond writing to a way of understanding the universe in magical and mystical terms. |
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07/03/86
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Waldman reads "Coup de grace," "Out there," "Eyes in all heads to be looked out of," "Ballade" (translation), "Sidney's complaint," "Queen" and "Bardo corridor," "Skin meat bones," "All hollow's eve" (with flute accompaniment), "Sisters," "A dialogue between a silicon child and a clematis flower" (with saxophone accompaniment), "Too bad trains," "The tundra and the waves," "You're like ice" (with drums and gourd accompaniment) and "Anarchy." |
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07/10/88
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of a performance of music and poetry with Steven Taylor, Anne Waldman, and Allen Ginsberg. Taylor sings "Who pays the piper calls the tune," "King cotton," and others. Waldman's performance includes "Artemis," "Mother's curse," and "Cut." |
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07/14/88
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of a class with Anne Waldman and Bobbie Louise Hawkins speaking on New American Poetry, including the theory and techniques of writing poetry, focusing on taking on other identities and voices as a writer. They read and discuss passages from a variety of writers including Gary Snyder, Robert Graves and Jerome Rothenberg. They discuss experimental writing techniques such as using the roots of words in order to generate new ideas and the role of the artist in society. Hawkins leads a performance exercise.
Second half of a class with Anne Waldman and Bobbie Louise Hawkins speaking on the theory and techniques of writing poetry, focusing on taking on other identities and voices as a writer. They read and discuss passages from a variety of writers including Gary Snyder, Robert Graves and Jerome Rothenberg. They discuss experimental writing techniques such as using the roots of words in order to generate new ideas. Hawkins leads a performance exercise. This half concludes the student performance exercises. |
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07/08/89
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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07/25/89
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Waldman's performance includes "Her night" and "De sueno al sueno." |
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06/30/92
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Second half of a performance with Steven Taylor, Anne Waldman, Paula Gunn Allen, and Allen Ginsberg. Taylor opens singing several songs including "London" by William Blake, set to music by Tuli Kupferberg. Waldman reads excerpts from Iovis and Kaliyuga Blues. Paula Gunn Allen's performance includes "Never cry uncle," "Heyoka (Coyote tale)," "Koshkalaka (Ceremonial dyke)," "That's a switch or so she said," and "Quien es que anda (Who is it that's walking)." Ginsberg reads "After the big parade" and other poems and sings several songs accompanied by Steven Taylor, including "Heart failure blues" and William Blake's "The nurse's song." |
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07/20/92
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Panel on counter-poetics and opposition with Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Lamborn Wilson. Waldman begins by reading an excerpt from Columbus's journal describing how easy it will be to exploit the people of the Americas. She proposes a program for incorporating political activism into poetics. The panelists make individual statements about counter-poetics and move to more open discussion. They propose definitions for the term and look at how to be oppositional in relation to racism, eurocentrism, and political oppression. The panel includes a reading by Peter Lamborn Wilson of his sermonette "Critique of the listener." |
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07/25/92
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Waldman reads "May I speak thus" and other poems. |
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07/12/95
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Anne Waldman continues with the "I'm a woman and I have a job" joke and the levitating story, followed by a reading of "Simulacrum." Steven Taylor joins Anne and they play two Tibetan love songs. |
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06/21/96
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg lecture on dharma poetics, including discussions of Lewis Carroll and six impossible ideas before breakfast, poetry as Siddhi, the importance of writers making connections, writing from inside one's own death, Bodhissattva vows and human compassion, poetry as sacrament, the founding of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and various anecdotes. The lecture ends with Ginsberg reciting the Prajna Paramita sutra. |
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11/16/97
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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An Anselm Hollo, Andrew Schelling, Anne Waldman and Steven Taylor reading. Hollo, Schelling and Waldman read a variety of poetry with musical accompaniment from Steven Taylor. |
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??/??/65
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The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus
NA, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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How the "cult of compromise" is moving America toward a fascist form of statism. |
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??/??/67
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What is Capitalism?
NA, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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An exposition of capitalism and of the crucial question its enemies evade. |
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??/??/39
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The Beat Generation
Compilation, Compilation |
3 CD-R |
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A+ |
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A three-CD box set featuring recordings from titans including William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Kenneth Rexroth, The Beat Generation works in tandem with Rhino's earlier compilation The Jack Kerouac Collection to paint a definitive audio portrait of one of the seminal literary uprisings of the 20th century. Because the Beats were so heavily influenced by jazz, their work ranks among the most rhythmic and lyrical in all of literature and lends itself perfectly to spoken word recordings; Kerouac's insistence that Beat stood for "beatific" aside, the name's musical implications are undeniable, with the writers' free-flowing, improvisational wordplay -- what Ginsberg dubbed "spontaneous bop prosody" -- echoing the radical innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. The set also charts the Beats' own influence on musicians spanning from Lambert, Hendricks and Ross to Perry Como to Tom Waits, at the same time embracing kindred spirits including Ken Nordine, Lord Buckley, and Lenny Bruce; the inclusion of some of the material is questionable at best -- the box would probably work as effectively at two discs instead of three -- but in recapturing the singular spirit of its time, The Beat Generation is an essential document of cool. |
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??/??/63
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Howls, Raps & Roars
Compilation, Compilation |
4 CD-R |
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A+ |
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The subtitle -- "recordings from the San Francisco poetry renaissance" -- perfectly places in context the vitality of the contents of this multi-disc box set. This collection gathers over four hours of recordings documented during the height of the Cold War in the late '50s and early '60s, historically reflecting the world as interpreted by such freewheelin' thinkers as Lew Welch, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. Under the influence and careful annotation of Ann Charters -- who is perhaps best known in the literary community for her valiant efforts as editor of the Portable Beat Reader -- Howls, Raps & Roars (1993) revisits some of America's most brilliant spoken-word recordings and aurally stimulating recitations borne of the tremendously prolific mid-century poetry scene. In addition to the definitively earnest efforts of the afore mentioned authors, also prominently featured on this collection is the work of comedian and social commentator Lenny Bruce -- who commences the set with over an hour's worth of his most profound recordings. His works -- most especially the irony-laden "Shorty Petterstein Interview" and equally strident "How To Relax Your Coloured Friends At Parties" are as over the top and deliciously ironic in the 21st century as they most assuredly were in the heart of the previous one. Also included are more established cornerstones of the Bay Area beats such as Ginsberg's "Howl" and the first part of "Kaddish" as well as Rexroth's biblically inspired "Thou Shalt Not Kill" and Ferlinghetti's epic "Moscow In The Wilderness, Segovia In The Snow." |
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??/??/87
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The Beat Generation: An American Dream
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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In the U.S., in the 1950s, contemporary jazz was becoming more and more esoteric, and a small group of writers, poets and musicians who were hip to that beat were exploring the cracks in the American dream. Meanwhile, the Cold War and insistently cheerful and upbeat attitudes were being promoted by Dale Carnegie and his many imitators. America was never so prosperous, so virtuous, or so happy, and the writers and artists of the Beat generation were among the first to see the worm in that particular apple. Because so many of them couldn't get enthusiastic about the Cold War, they were derisively called "beatniks," the "nik" being an imitation Russian diminutive. In this 1980s documentary, surviving eminences from that period discuss the times and their experiences. Among those appearing are Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac's daughter and wife, William S. Burroughs, Amiri Baraka (a.k.a. LeRoi Jones) and others, while archival footage gives viewers a taste of other greats of the period. The former Tonight Show host and author Steve Allen narrates. |
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??/??/99
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The Source
Compilation, Compilation |
1 DVD |
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A+ |
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Director Chuck Workman, who documented the life of pop culture icon Andy Warhol in his 1990 film Superstar, here explores the lives, works and influence of four leading lights of the "Beat Generation" of the 1950s: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. Cutting back and forth between archive footage of his subjects, readings of selections from the three authors by Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper and John Turturro (Cassady was an associate and inspiration to the Beats), and film clips that in both serious and farcical fashion document the impact the Beat culture had on American society, Workman creates a fast-paced collage of sounds and images that attempts to show how the Beats became the dominant counter-cultural movement of the last half of America's 20th Century |
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02/12/69
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Home Recording
Los Angeles, CA |
2 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"Terror Street & Agony Way" |
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??/??/69
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Home Recording
Compilation, Compilation |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"70 Minutes in Hell" |
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??/??/70
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Home recording
New Orleans, LA |
1 CD-R |
|
A |
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"King of Poets" |
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??/??/70
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Bellevue Community College
Bellevue, WA |
1 DVD |
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A- |
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In 1970, Charles Bukowski was a prolific poet and short story writer, but he had yet to gain a sizable following for his work outside of his hometown of Los Angeles, CA, and it would be several years before he would attain the underground literary celebrity he enjoyed in the 1980s and '90s. When Bellevue Community College in Bellevue, WA, invited Bukowski to perform a reading, it was only the fourth time the author had read his work in public; a two-man student camera crew was on hand to record the event using a primitive portable video system, and Bukowski at Bellevue is one of the few visual documents of Bukowski reading his rough-hewn, streetwise poetry for an audience. |
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??/??/73
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City Lights Poets Theater
San Francisco, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A |
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"Poems & Insults" |
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05/14/78
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Markthalle
Hamburg, Germany |
1 CD-R |
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A- |
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04/??/80
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The Sweetwater
Redondo Beach, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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City |
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Source |
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06/12/05
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Breakfast with the Arts
New York, NY |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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David reads from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and sits down for an interview that covers various topics including David's writing style. |
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Venue |
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08/01/74
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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"Ave" |
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08/11/76
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Available for download at archive.org |
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07/26/78
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
|
A+ |
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diPrima reads "Revolutionary letter # 31," "To the patriarchs (for Inez Garcia)," "Ave," and an excerpt from Loba. |
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??/??/47
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Unknown
NA, NA |
1 CD-R |
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05/28/53
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Harvard University
Cambridge, MA |
1 TAPE |
|
A |
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In 1952 cummings delivered the Norton lectures in poetry at Harvard, calling the series of six informal talks "nonlectures." These talks covered his development as a child, cummings's philosophy of being and writing, and his creed as a poet. |
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??/??/58
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Unknown
Washington, DC |
1 CD-R |
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??/??/81
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Ten Million Books
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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Mowat's life has been a series of adventures, many of which are reflected in his books. His distinctive brand of writing--"cause-motivated subjective non-fiction"-- has earned him a worldwide following and made him Canada's best-selling author. |
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??/??/97
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Life & Times
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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During the programme, viewers meet Mowat?s first wife Frances, his second wife Claire and his only son Sandy. Publisher Jack McClelland, literary critic Robert Fulford and family members help reveal the real man behind the well-known kilted, rum-swigging, loud public persona which Mowat has held up to the public for years. |
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??/??/34
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Unknown
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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Notes |
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07/08/67
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Festival Of Two Worlds
Spoleto, Italy |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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City |
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Source |
Notes |
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04/??/56
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Henry Miller Recalls & Reflects
NA, NA |
2 CD-R |
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A+ |
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??/??/60
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To Paint is to Love Again
NA, NA |
2 CD-R |
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A+ |
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??/??/96
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Henry Miller is Not Dead
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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| Date |
Venue |
City |
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Sound Quality |
Source |
Notes |
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11/01/77
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University of Colorado Auditorium
Boulder, CO |
1 SHN |
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A |
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??/??/78
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Fear And Loathing On The Road To Hollywood
Hollywood, CA |
1 DVD |
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A+ |
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02/24/84
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UCLA
Los Angeles, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A- |
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Remastered Version |
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??/??/85
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Late Night with David Letterman
New York, NY |
1 DVD |
|
A |
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11/19/87
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Late Night with David Letterman
New York, NY |
1 DVD |
|
A |
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11/25/88
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Late Night with David Letterman
New York, NY |
1 DVD |
|
A |
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??/??/88
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The Crazy Never Die
NA, NA |
1 DVD |
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A+ |
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Rare Documentary |
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??/??/90
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Songs of the Doomed audio book
N/A, N/A |
3 CD-R |
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A+ |
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02/04/91
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Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA |
2 CD-R |
|
A |
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03/19/93
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ABC In Concert
NA, NA |
1 DVD |
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A- |
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ABC TV clip interviewing Keith Richards |
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11/??/96
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Four Seasons Hotel
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Interview with Hunter on the 25th anniversary of 'Fear and Loathing' for NPR radio |
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??/??/96
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Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas
Various, Various |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" |
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??/??/96
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Hunter Goes To Hollywood
Hollywood, CA |
1 DVD |
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A+ |
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05/30/97
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National Archives Theater
Washington, DC |
1 DVD |
|
A |
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Tribute to FMR Senator George McGovern (D-SD) |
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06/11/97
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
New York, NY |
1 DVD |
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A+ |
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06/13/97
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The Charlie Rose Show
New York, NY |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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Hunter discusses writing and his letters |
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08/07/97
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All Things Considered
NA, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"Gonzo journalist" Hunter S. Thompson discusses his latest book, a collection of his letters dating from 1955 to 1967 called Proud Highway: The Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman. The author talks about his early years as a writer and the development of his distinctive descriptive style. |
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05/11/98
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The Charlie Rose Show
New York, NY |
1 DVD |
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A+ |
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Actor Johnny Depp and Director Terry Gilliam talk with Charlie Rose about their new film, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," which is based on a book written by Hunter S. Thompson. |
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05/??/98
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Fox News
NA, NA |
1 DVD |
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A+ |
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Actor Johnny Depp discusses his relationship with Hunter S. Thompson
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10/29/98
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Late Show with David Letterman
New York, NY |
1 DVD |
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A |
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10/30/98
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The Charlie Rose Show
New York, NY |
1 DVD |
|
A |
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Hunter talks literature, 'Fear and Loathing',and 'The Rum Diary' |
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??/??/98
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The Rum Diary
NA, NA |
4 CD-R |
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A+ |
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12/11/00
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Hunter Thompson's Home
Woody Creek, CO |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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These are excerpts from Hunter's 12-hour Paris Review magazine interview, conducted on that date by the late George Plimpton for Issue #156 (Fall 2000). |
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08/29/02
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Hunter Thompson's Home
Woody Creek, CO |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Hunter speaks to Mick O'Regan from Radio National's Media Report. Australian Broadcasting Corporation 6:15am - Thursday 29 August 2002 about the events of 9/11 |
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09/08/02
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Owl Farm
Woody Creek, CO |
1 DVD |
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A+ |
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01/??/03
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KDNK Community Radio
Roaring Folk Valley, CO |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Hunter S. Thompson on the Iraq War & the Bush Presidency |
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02/06/03
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Tim Russert
New York, NY |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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Hunter sits down to discuss on the state of America with NBC journalist Tim Russert |
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02/??/03
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
New York, NY |
1 DVD |
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A+ |
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Actual Date: 02/06/03 |
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02/??/03
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The Charlie Rose Show
New York, NY |
1 DVD |
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A- |
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Actual Date: 02/06/03 |
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02/21/05
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National Public Radio Tribute
NA, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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This disc contains various NPR tributes to Hunter as well as additional radio coverage through out the first week of his passing. |
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02/25/05
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The Charlie Rose Show
New York, NY |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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Charlie Rose pays tribute to Hunter S. Thompson by playing clips from Hunter's previous visits on the show. |
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??/??/96
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In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry
Compilation, Compilation |
4 CD-R |
|
A+ |
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The audience for the four-CD box set In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry is limited, but for those that want to delve deep into this collection ? which features poets reading their own work and there are over 120 poems included ? will find this immensely rewarding. Beginning with an 1890 recording of Walt Whitman reading "America," the set runs through many of the greatest poets of the next 100 years, who all have representative, if not their most famous, poems included. There are some omissions ? T.S. Eliot was not included, for instance ? but there has never been a set like this compiled before, nor is it likely to happen again. In their Own Voices is a treasure for poetry and spoken word devotees. |
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??/??/39
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The Jack Kerouac Collection
Compilation, Compilation |
3 CD-R |
|
A+ |
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This triple-disc box set is centered on the reissue and restoration of Jack Kerouac's three long-players: Poetry for the Beat Generation (1959), Blues and Haikus (1959), as well as Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation(1960). The Jack Kerouac Collection (1990) also adds over a half-hour of previously unissued material. These include outtakes from the Blues and Haikus sessions, recitations from On the Road and Visions of Cody from the Steve Allen Plymouth Show, as well as a candid recording from a symposium titled "Is There a Beat Generation," which was held at the Hunter College Playhouse and sponsored by Brandeis University. As a poet, Kerouac's readings were rarely as entertaining as those of his contemporaries William S. Burroughs or Allen Ginsberg. However, the liberation in his writing style is absolutely replete with a youthful joy tethered by somber optimism. His blend of achingly poetic verbiage and stream of consciousness were intersected by his rapier wit and perpetual vision. Much like the instrumental jazz musicians of his time, his poetry and prose were wide open to interpretation and the delivery often bears a crude and uncomfortable nature -- much like the uncertainty that faces many of the characters he animates. Accompanying Kerouac on his spoken-word jazz odysseys are Steve Allen (piano) on Poetry for the Beat Generation as well as Zoot Sims (tenor sax) and Al Cohn (tenor sax) on Blues and Haikus. The Jack Kerouac Collection also includes a 32-page liner-notes booklet with essays and commentary from Ginsberg, Burroughs, Jerry Garcia, Ray Manzarek, David Perry, and Steve Allen, among others. There is also copious discographical, biographical, and bibliographical information as well. This set is an essential piece of Americana and is highly recommended for literary buffs and beatniks alike. |
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??/??/49
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Ginsberg/Kerouac Acetate
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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B |
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The rarest of the recordings that I own. Exact date is unknown. Email me for info. |
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??/??/58
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On The Beat Generation
Various, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation was the culmination of the author's short-lived recording career, a solo performance that transcends poetry and music -- it's literally spoken jazz, the artist improvising freely on the printed text of his own work in front of him. Produced by Bill Randle, it was Kerouac's most musical performance, despite the fact that the recording contained only his voice and no accompaniment, using his voice and language the way a saxophonist might improvise on a particular melodic line or riff. He's spellbinding throughout, intense, focused, and even subtly changing voices with the work itself. [Reissued in Rhino's Jack Kerouac Collection with a bonus track consisting of an excerpt from a 1958 forum on the existence of the "Beat Generation," held at Hunter College in New York.] |
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10/??/59
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Blues & Haikus
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A |
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11/16/59
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NBC Studios
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Steve Allen Show |
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11/16/59
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NBC Studios
New York, NY |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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"Steve Allen Show" |
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??/??/59
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Jazz of The Beat Generation
Various, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation was the culmination of the author's short-lived recording career, a solo performance that transcends poetry and music -- it's literally spoken jazz, the artist improvising freely on the printed text of his own work in front of him. Produced by Bill Randle, it was Kerouac's most musical performance, despite the fact that the recording contained only his voice and no accompaniment, using his voice and language the way a saxophonist might improvise on a particular melodic line or riff. He's spellbinding throughout, intense, focused, and even subtly changing voices with the work itself. [Reissued in Rhino's Jack Kerouac Collection with a bonus track consisting of an excerpt from a 1958 forum on the existence of the "Beat Generation," held at Hunter College in New York.] |
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??/??/59
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Mexico City Blues
N/A, NA |
4 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Read by Allen Ginsberg |
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??/??/61
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Jack Kerouac's Home
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A |
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10/08/62
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WCAP Radio
Lowell, MA |
1 CD-R |
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A |
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??/??/69
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Florida Tape 1
St. Petersburg, FL |
1 CD-R |
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B+ |
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Very Rare Home Recording of Kerouac |
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??/??/69
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Florida Tape 2
St. Petersburg, FL |
1 CD-R |
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B |
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??/??/84
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Kerouac
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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In this romantic, sentimental homage to America's well-known Beat writer Jack Kerouac, director John Antonelli combines readings from Kerouac's works, footage of the writer with figures such as Steve Allen and William Buckley, views of his home and favorite locales, commentary by fellow writers like the late Allen Ginsberg, and scenes in which Jack Coulter takes the role of Kerouac. A jazz score enhances this docudrama. |
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??/??/85
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What Happened to Kerouac?
Compilation, Compilation |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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This biographical documentary tackles the legend of Jack Kerouac, one of the foremost writers of the Beat Generation. Kerouac started a beat that goes on; he's still a major influence in contemporary literature and poetry. The author first broke into prominence with his famous stream-of-consciousness novel On the Road, which landed him in a very public spotlight. Some of those interviewed here, which include Allan Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Steve Allen, and other notables, maintain Kerouac could not handle the fame, or the politicization of his ideas; others contend he was simply an alcoholic who died young because he could not handle his drinking. Director Richard Lerner uses archival footage, interviews with Kerouac, home movies, and other sources to pack a wealth of information into 96 minutes. |
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Notes |
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??/??/24
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Unknown
Paris, France |
1 CD-R |
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B+ |
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??/??/29
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Unknown
Cambridge, England |
1 CD-R |
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A |
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| Date |
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City |
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Notes |
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??/??/78
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Unknown
Berkeley, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A |
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Very rare show! |
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12/01/80
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Paradise Theater
Boston, MA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"Catholic Boy Confessions" |
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06/20/82
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Uncle Sam's
Hull, MA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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07/03/86
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Carroll reads "A day at the races," "The poet and the vibrator," "The new ordeal," "With Van Gogh," "Homage to Gerard Manley Hopkins," "For Elizabeth," "Fallen heroes" "For my generation" and "A child growing up with the sun." |
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07/12/95
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Readings from Forced Entries. |
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07/09/99
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Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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A reading by Jim Carroll, includes musical perfomances with accompaniment by Steven Taylor, of the Fugs, at the Boulder Museum of Contempary Art (BMoCA). The performance includes Carroll's "Facts," "8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain," "Train Surfing" and "People Who Died." |
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City |
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Notes |
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08/01/74
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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"Suicide Sutra" |
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City |
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Sound Quality |
Source |
Notes |
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??/??/72
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Harvard University
Cambridge, MA |
1 CD-R |
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A |
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Hawkes answers questions and reads from his books. |
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City |
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Source |
Notes |
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12/05/01
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Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
San Francisco, CA |
2 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Ken Kesey Memorial |
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Venue |
City |
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Sound Quality |
Source |
Notes |
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??/??/00
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NPR
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"Word Jazz" NOTE: I am unsure of the name or date of this recording. |
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City |
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Sound Quality |
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Notes |
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09/13/05
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
New York, NY |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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Vonnegut on The Daily Show! |
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10/07/05
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NOW
New York, NY |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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NOW's David Brancaccio interviews literary icon Kurt Vonnegut about his life and the current state of American democracy. With his classic wit, the legendary author of CAT'S CRADLE and SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE comments on how American democracy works and delivers some choice words for our parties, our system, and our president. Vonnegut's latest book, a collection of nonfiction entitled A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, is a bestseller. |
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??/??/62
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BBC Radio
London, England |
1 CD-R |
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??/??/89
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Looking for Langston
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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Artistically envisioned and lovingly done, Looking for Langston is an exploration of the life and consequences of late African-American poet Langston Hughes. It is impossible to tell Hughes' story without delving into the social atmosphere in which he thrived. The Harlem Renaissance was in full swing when Hughes found his voice. He represented the unabashed energy of the Cotton Club and the emerging tone of beat poetry. Filmmaker Isaac Julien fuses together a multitude of images to create a patchwork of impressions about the changing gay culture. Archival footage and a jazz soundtrack breathe life into this documentary journey. Looking for Langston has become a favorite within the gay community for its willingness to examine the viewpoint including sexuality and the black experience. |
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Notes |
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??/??/72
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Take 30
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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Venue |
City |
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Sound Quality |
Source |
Notes |
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07/08/67
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Festival Of Two Worlds
Spoleto, Italy |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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??/??/75
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The Writer's Center
Bethesda, MD |
1 CD-R |
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03/07/98
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Ferlinghetti reads with musical accompaniment by Steven Taylor |
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City |
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Source |
Notes |
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08/12/66
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Judson Memorial Church
New York, NY |
2 CD-R |
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Lenny Bruce Memorial Service. Speaker's include Allen Ginsberg. |
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??/??/57
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Unknown
Montreal, QC |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"Six Montreal Poets" |
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04/08/58
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Dunn's Progressive Jazz Parlour
Montreal, QC |
1 CD-R |
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A- |
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"Gift" from 1961 anthology "The Spice-Box of Earth" - accompanied by resident pianist Maury Kaye at The Birdland Room, Dunn's Progressive Jazz Parlour, Montreal, April 8, 1958 (Oldest known live recording) |
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02/14/66
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92nd Street YM-YWHA Hostel
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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??/??/66
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CBC Studios
Toronto, ON |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"Canadian Poets 1" |
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08/30/70
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East Afton Farm
Isle of Wight, UK |
1 CD-R |
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B |
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10/30/80
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Concertgebouw
Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
2 CD-R |
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A |
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04/28/85
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WNEW-FM Studios
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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07/??/93
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KCRW FM
Santa Monica, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Venue |
City |
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Sound Quality |
Source |
Notes |
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??/??/64
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Ladies and Gentlemen...Mr. Leonard Cohen
Various, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"Ladies and Gentlemen...Mr. Leonard Cohen" |
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??/??/64
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Ladies and Gentlemen...Mr. Leonard Cohen
Various, NA |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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"Ladies and Gentlemen...Mr. Leonard Cohen" |
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??/??/83
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I Am A Hotel
Toronto, ON |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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??/??/96
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Master Poems '58-'96
Various, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"Master Poems" |
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| Date |
Venue |
City |
Show Quality |
Sound Quality |
Source |
Notes |
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??/??/61
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Unknown
NA, NA |
1 CD-R |
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| Date |
Venue |
City |
Show Quality |
Sound Quality |
Source |
Notes |
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06/16/76
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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McClure reads "For the Death of 100 Whales," "Jaguar Skies," and "Dark Brown." |
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07/25/89
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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McClure reads "Action philosophy," "Where are the snows of Hollywood?," and other poems. |
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07/31/89
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Michael McClure lecture about the origins of theater. He discusses the relationship between plays and poetry, his concept of "beast language" and his own plays, "The feast," "The beard" and "Josephine the mouse singer." |
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06/23/99
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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McClure reads from his book Huge Dreams and performs Zen poems with musical accompaniment by Steven Taylor. |
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| Date |
Venue |
City |
Show Quality |
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Notes |
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06/17/99
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Panel discussion with Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley and Michael Ondaatje. The panelists discuss their personal histories, followed by comments on community, the 1965 poetry conference, the influences of books, homelessness in language and other topics. Including their research, the immigrant experience, death and fame, and writing under the influence of drugs. |
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??/??/86
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The Apprenticeship of Mordecai Richler
Unknown, Unknown |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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This program is part of a series that investigates the creative process through interviews with artists and examinations of their works. This episode features author Mordecai Richler. Born in Montreal, Richler has written extensively about the working-class neighborhood of his youth. His books for adults and children include The Acrobats, St. Urbain's Horseman, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, which was made into a film of the same name. Richler gives the viewer insight into what motivates his writing, and the steps he takes to perfect his craft. |
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05/??/92
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Stirring Emotions
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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Richler's statements in his book about the supposed plight of Anglo-Quebeckers created controversy inside and outside Quebec. This controversy is the catalyst for highlighting key issues in the constitutional debate. |
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??/??/97
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Life & Times
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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He calls himself a "literary leper," and the separatist political leaders of his native Quebec call him worse names than that. But Mordecai Richler, writer and patriot, remains what he has always been - an exile in his own country, an incisive examiner of the human condition and an unflinching critic of prejudice and dogma.
Needling the Parti Quebecois, condemning the independence movement as the offspring of anti-Semitism, Richler has carved a unique niche for himself within the province - as perhaps the only Anglophone fearless or reckless enough to stand up publicly to what he labels the "thought police." His chain-smoking celebrity sometimes eclipses his literary gifts, making him better known today for his politics than for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravtiz or St. Urbain's Horseman.
Who is this whisky drinking legend? Following Richler through a season of his very public life in Montreal and London, meeting his family and St. Urbain Street crowd, we dive deeply into the universe of a novelist. |
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Source |
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10/??/65
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Unknown
San Francisco, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"Drive"
These soundtracks are from a series of tapes Cassady made in the fall of '65. Mountain Girl and Kesey ran the recording equipment. Backed by Robin and the Hoods, Neal Cassady, the famous come-on artist, takes a verbal joyride through his life, his cars, his women, and the lessons he learns along the way--spontaneously. |
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12/01/78
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The Entermedia Theatre
New York, NY |
2 CD-R |
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A |
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The Complete Recording of the Nova Convention
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City |
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10/30/38
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CBS Radio Studios
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A |
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The very historic reading of "War of the Worlds" |
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07/21/76
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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A class by Philip Whalen in Allen Ginsberg's "Spontaneous Poetics" series. Whalen discusses Ben Jonson, primitive peoples and poetries, and names. |
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08/06/76
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Allen Ginsberg discusses politics, attitude, anxiety, aggression, and nonviolent action. Ginsberg discusses Rainer Maria Rilke with Philip Whalen, reads an improvised poem, asks a student to do the same, then discusses the process. The tape ends with some talk about Naropa's money problems. |
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07/23/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of class 1 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses the American language as a system distinct from English. He focuses on poems of Wallace Stevens, particularly "The Bed of Old John Zoeller" and also discusses H.L. Mencken, Lew Welch, and his own family history. |
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07/25/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Second half of Class 1 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen continues his exploration of Wallace Stevens' life and work, focusing on Stevens' interaction with nature, and the unique qualities of nature. |
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07/26/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Second half of Class 2 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Wallace Stevens' short poems and the merits and shortcomings of literary biographies, focusing on Hart Crane, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Emily Dickinson, and Jack Kerouac. |
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07/28/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of Class 3 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen first discusses a poem by Lew Welch, his methods, and the intricacies of lichen. Much of the remaining portion of the lecture is devoted to Hart Crane's "A Pastoral." Whalen also touches on the work of Alan Watts, T. S. Eliot, William Blake, Robert Graves, and Virginia Woolf. |
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07/30/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Class 4 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Wallace Stevens' poem "Sunday Morning," other Stevens poems, and the work of other authors including Dante Gabriel Rosetti, John Milton, Shakespeare, and Hart Crane. |
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08/01/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of Class 5 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Lew Welch's poem "Wobbly Rock" with specific reference to letters to and from Welch and a lecture by Welch in "How I Work as a Poet." |
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08/04/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of Class 6 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Wallace Stevens's poem "Le monocle de mon oncle." Whalen also discusses several other poems by Stevens, including "Sunday Morning", and the nature of Stevens's correspondence. (Continues on 80p102.) Keywords: New American Poetry, West Coast poetry, Buddhism, American modernist poetry, symbolism |
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08/06/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Class 7 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Hart Crane's poem "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen." |
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08/08/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Class 8 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. Philip Whalen discusses Wallace Stevens's poem "Academic Discourse at Havana." Specific attention is given to French poets--Stephane Mallarme, Paul Valery, Andre Gide, and others--who influenced Stevens. |
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08/11/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Class 9 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Hart Crane's life during the period in which "The Bridge" was composed, with an emphasis on the literary climate of the time. |
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08/13/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of Class 10 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Hart Crane's poem "The Bridge", continuing the discussion from the previous meeting of the class and focusing on the literary and historical context of the poem. He also looks at the work of Lew Welch. |
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08/15/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Second half of Class 10 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Hart Crane's poem "The Bridge", continuing the discussion from the previous meeting of the class and focusing on the literary and historical context of the poem. He also looks at the work of Lew Welch.
Second half of Class 11 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen focuses on two later poems from Wallace Stevens, "To an Old Philosopher in Rome" and "The Rock", with digressions on Santayana and other Stevens poems. |
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08/18/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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First half of Class 12 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Hart Crane's poem "The Broken Tower" and Lew Welch's "The Song Mount Tamalpais Sings", as well as Welch's prose and other topics.
Second half of Class 12 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Hart Crane's poem "The Broken Tower" and Lew Welch's "The Song Mount Tamalpais Sings", as well as Welch's prose and other topics. |
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08/20/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Class 12 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. Philip Whalen focuses on the similarities between the three poets discussed in the course: Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and Lew Welch and also discusses a variety of other topics. |
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07/18/84
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Philip Whalen discussing Alexander Pope's life, and the cultural context of his work. Whalen reads and discusses several works by Pope, including "The Heathen to His Departing Soul," "The Dying Christian to His Soul," "A Rondeau," "An Epistle to a Doctor ofDivinity...," and "The Dunciad." |
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07/20/84
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Philip Whalen discussing 17th and 18th century English literature and worldview, focusing on the works of James Boswell, Ben Jonson, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope. |
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??/??/82
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Poetry in Motion
Compilation, Compilation |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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Director Ron Mann has put together readings by 24 different poets (after filming a total of 60 writers reciting their works), and then has poet and author Charles Bukowski verbalize "everyman's" criticisms of poetry: it is boring, irrelevant, self-indulgent, and does not make much sense. Then he counterpoints these statements with dynamic, entertaining, and inspiring works by poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Leroi Jones, Anne Waldeman, Helen Adams and 20 others. |
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06/19/79
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Available for download at archive.org |
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07/09/84
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Robert Creeley lecture on the origins, history, politics, and techniques of language poetry. He looks at how language poetry evolved out of earlier styles as well as its influence on contemporary poets. Topics include the ideas of Charles Bernstein, the work of Charles Olson, William Carlos Williams, Robert Duncan, Ezra Pound, and many others, as well as the possibilities for using words without referents. |
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06/23/86
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Robert Creeley on Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. Creeley discusses dreams, the Earth Attractive, traditional forms, Charles Hartman's Free Verse, Robert Frost, Aristotle and tragedy, and restricted verse. |
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06/27/86
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Robert Creeley discussing family relations, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ted Berrigan, Charles Olson and syntax, Cole's Island, and Ginsberg's "Laughing Gas." |
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06/30/86
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Robert Creeley discussing John Weiners and his poems, "A Poem for Painters," "A Poem for the Insane," and "A Poem for Trapped Things," affect vs. effect, Charles Olson, San Francisco in 1956, his works "My Mother" and "An Anniversary of Death," William S. Burroughs, and "Dogtown." |
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07/02/86
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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A lecture by Robert Creeley on poetry in motion. The lecture includes a discussion and reading of Basil Bunting, playing of jazz, and selections from Poetry in Motion by Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, Kenward Elsmslie, Ed Sanders, Helen Adam, Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, and Michael McClure. |
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07/04/86
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Robert Creeley on the imagination of procedure with advice on Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Robert Duncan, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Robert Frost, and Louis Zukofsky. Also included in this lecture are readings from Pound, Whitman, and Creeley's own works. Allen Ginsberg adds to the lecture by posing a specific question to Creeley about Whitman and Charles Olson. |
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07/12/91
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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07/08/94
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Boulder High School
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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A lecture by Robert Creeley on various topics including Tom Peters and The History of the American Field Service, aging, Robert Duncan, Simone de Beauvior, Walt Whitman, Warren Talman, the Vancouver poetry conference, Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, and William Carlos Williams. Keywords: New American Poetry, objectivist, Black Mountain School, beat movement, 20th century poetry |
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06/18/97
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Robert Creeley lecture on eco-poetics. Creeley discusses Edwin Arlington Robinson, Marsden Hartley, Creeley's time in the American Field Service, existentialism, Jack Kerouac and the dignity of being a writer, Hart Crane, Robert Frost and Louis Zukofsky. Creeley recounts stories from his own life and talks about the ways in which Robinson influenced him. During the course of the lecture Creeley reads his own tribute to Robinson, "Old poems," as well as part of Robinson's "The man against the sky." He also reads and discusses the work of Hart Crane and other writers. |
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06/17/99
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Panel discussion with Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley and Michael Ondaatje. The panelists discuss their personal histories, followed by comments on community, the 1965 poetry conference, the influences of books, homelessness in language and other topics. Including their research, the immigrant experience, death and fame, and writing under the influence of drugs. |
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06/10/76
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Lecture by Robert Duncan, entitled "Warp and woof." Discussion covers truth vs. fabrication, Homer, Ezra Pound, imagism and Plotinus, magic Neo-Platonism, Pound's usury, effects of personal experience on poetry, dictionaries, etymologies, Denise Levertov's fairy tale experience, revisions, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and Ginsberg and aboriginal poets. |
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07/26/78
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Duncan reads "The museum," a set of four poems entitled "An alternate life," "In the south," "Homecoming," "Supplication," "The quotidian" and "The turbine." |
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??/??/52
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Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y.
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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05/??/56
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Home of Robert Frost
Cambridge, MA |
1 CD-R |
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12/??/76
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Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y.
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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??/??/78
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Unknown
NA, NA |
1 CD-R |
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07/26/82
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Sam Charters lecture on Jack Kerouac and jazz at the Jack Kerouac conference, sponsored by the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. The lecture includes discussions on jazz of the Beat generation, be-bop, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and a recording of Kerouac and Steve Allen reading "Mexico City blues." |
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??/??/90
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Soundbites from the Counterculture
Compilation, Compilation |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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02/26/93
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Transmission Theater
San Francisco, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"Alien Dreamtime" |
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??/??/59
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Unknown
NA, NA |
1 CD-R |
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??/??/92
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Anatomy of a Writer
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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??/??/00
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Humber College
Toronto, ON |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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Additional comments to be added shortly |
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07/04/69
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Millbrook Estate
Millbrook, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"You Can Be Anyone This Time Around" |
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??/??/97
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Timothy Leary's Last Trip
NA, NA |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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Author, educator, and philosopher Dr. Timothy Leary was wildly controversial throughout his life, so it came as no surprise he would also choose a controversial way to die. Timothy Leary's Last Trip documents Leary's life and career, from his days at West Point through his years as an LSD guru (he coined the phrase "Tune in, turn on, drop out") to his final days as he prepared for his death by broadcasting his last days over the internet. |
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01/25/51
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Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y.
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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??/??/90
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Thomas Edison Recording
Unknown, Unknown |
1 CD-R |
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??/??/35
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Unknown
London, England |
1 CD-R |
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06/??/54
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Home of William Carlos Williams
Rutherford, NJ |
1 CD-R |
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??/??/60
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BBC Studios
London, England |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Excerpt from tape made in 1960 by Brion Gysin at BBC Studios in London, using BG's permutational technique. |
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??/??/60
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Nothing Here Now But The Recordings
Various, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Early Recording's and Experiment's.
This release, composed primarily of recordings that Burroughs himself made dating as far back as 1959, consists of numerous tape manipulations and experiments that are sort of sonically analogous to the cut-up techniques that Burroughs used in his writing. |
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??/??/61
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A Day in the Life of a Junkie
London, England |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Excerpt from a radio talk by WSB in 1961 in London, "A Day in the Life of a Junkie," tape courtesy of the University of Kansas Libraries. |
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??/??/65
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Unknown
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Early cut-up tapes made by Ian Sommerville and WSB around 1965, probably in New York and London. |
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11/19/71
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Duke Street
St. James, London |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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01/18/73
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Joujouka Festival
Joujouka, Morocco |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Excerpt from live tape made by WSB at the Joujouka Festival in the hills of Morocco with Ornette Coleman, January 18, 1973. |
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04/24/74
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St. Mark's Church
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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11/04/74
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Poetry Center
San Francisco, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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11/07/74
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Pauley Ballroom
Berkeley, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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11/12/74
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Berkeley Museum of Art
Berkeley, CA |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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William Burroughs press conference at Berkeley Museum of Art on November 12, 1974. Sponsored by the Pacific Film Archive.
At a press release on an unidentified occasion, William Burroughs fields an array of questions, discusses relationships with or opinions on Paul Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Jose Delgado, Alfred Korzybski, et.al. as well as opinions on the women's movement, contemporary (1974) politics (Watergate, etc.), governmental methods of civilian control and the possibilities of revolution and rebellion in the contemporary era. Fairly extensive discussion in the last ten minutes on his writing process, including use of the cut-up method or collage writing and the relationship of his own writing to the science fiction genre. |
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01/01/75
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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An interview with William S. Burroughs for Loka magazine with additional commentary by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. The interview covers topics such as government, the New Age movement, identity, biology, cloning, war, escapism, and gurus. |
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03/05/75
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WBAI
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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03/09/75
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UC Ballroom
Chicago, IL |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Readings from 'Naked Lunch' |
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04/17/75
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Columbia University
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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11/19/75
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St. Mark's Church
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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04/20/76
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Naropa Institute
Boulder, CO |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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From a lecture given by WSB at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, April 20, 1976. |
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07/20/76
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Lecture by William S. Burroughs including a tape recorded experiment called "Paranormal Voices," a cut-up experiment of Brion Gysin, experiments with Sommerville, messages from dreams, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, and phrases of minimal context. Burroughs also discusses Shakespeare, computers, Homer, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and Carl Jung. Lecture ends with a question and answer session. |
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07/21/76
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Naropa
Boulder, CO |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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07/22/76
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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End of a class with William S. Burroughs, finishing with a question and answer session with Burroughs responding to remarks about women, non-referential images, non-linear thinking, and telepathy. Second half of a class with William S. Burroughs, continuing with his exploration of egoless sources for writing, focusing on the nature of egolessness, especially its relation to Buddhist notions of egolessness and nonattachment. Notably, Burroughs maintains that "the goal of enlightenment is not necessarily the goal of the writer." There are some brief digressions on the relation between written, spoken, and nonverbal communication. |
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08/07/76
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Burroughs reads "Take Nirvana" and "Twilight's last gleaming," with the first appearance of Dr. Benway. |
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04/09/77
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St. Mark's Church
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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07/19/77
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N/A
N/A, CO |
1 CD-R |
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A |
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This show was recorded at the Naropa Institute with a long introduction by Allen Ginsberg. |
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12/01/78
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Entermedia Theatre
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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The Nova Convention |
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12/02/78
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The Entermedia Theatre
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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The Nova Convention |
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04/04/79
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The Mudd Club
New York, NY |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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08/08/79
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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William S. Burroughs lecture on Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and A Short Trip Home, and Stephen King's The Shining. Burroughs also discusses exercises for increasing awareness, books as mental film, codes of conduct, heroes, and the film of Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch. |
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08/10/79
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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William S. Burroughs lectures on creative reading, including a discussion about various authors including Joseph Conrad, Denton Welch, Jane Bowles, Brion Gysin, and Julian Jaynes. Burroughs also addresses subjects such as art heroes, hemispheres of the brain, and the training of assasins. |
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08/13/79
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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William S. Burroughs lecture on creative reading. The lecture mentions a wide variety of authors, including Alistair Crowley, Paul Bowles, and many others. The class also discusses science fiction, non-fiction, general semantics, scriptwriting, cloning, rotten ectoplasm, and judgment in cut-ups, as well as Burroughs's novel, The Soft Machine. |
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04/04/80
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Kean College
Union, NJ |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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08/11/80
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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A lecture by William S. Burroughs on public discourse, with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Topics included are nuclear weapons, disarmament, the Equal Rights Amendment, aliens, dreams, function of the artist, mind-altering drugs, reincarnation, space travel, television, and economics. |
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09/30/80
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Opera House
Lawrence, KS |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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05/09/81
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Downtown Gallery
Los Angeles, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Excellent recording from the Red Night tour |
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05/13/81
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Veteran's Hall
Santa Cruz, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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05/16/81
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Keystone Korner
San Francisco, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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05/31/81
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The Edge
Toronto, ON |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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09/17/81
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The Market Street Cinema
San Francisco, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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07/23/82
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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William S. Burroughs comparing his works to those of Jack Kerouac, discussing their writing techniques. Burroughs provides biographical information on where the two met and their relationship. He also discusses what it means to be a writer and how many people are not writers even though they claim to be and have published work. Burroughs responds to questions about his relationship with Kerouac, dreams, and his own literary influences. This workshop took place during the 1982 Jack Kerouac Conference at the Naropa Institute. |
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02/22/83
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N/A
N/A, N/A |
1 CD-R |
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A |
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I am searching for any venue or date info I can find on this show. |
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02/25/83
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Kabuki Theatre
San Francisco, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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03/20/84
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Research Video
San Francisco, CA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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07/04/84
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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Available for download at archive.org |
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07/28/85
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Naropa Institute
Boulder, CO |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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William S. Burroughs reads from "The Place of Dead Roads" and "The Cat Inside." (Two seperate readings available) One available for download at archive.org |
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??/??/85
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The Elvis of Letters
Various, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Another collaboration between Burroughs and director and musician Gus Van Sant -- Burroughs also appeared in Van Sant's movie Drugstore Cowboy. Van Sant plays drum machine, bass and guitar, while Burroughs reads four short pieces with his voice often being electronically manipulated. |
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06/25/86
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Naropa University
Boulder, CO |
1 FLAC |
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A+ |
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William S. Burroughs on the technology and the ethics of wishing. The discussion includes rules for wishing, the dogma of science, L. Ron Hubbard, The Big Lie, and sympathetic magic. The class also includes a question and answer session covering subjects such as memory, Henry Miller, dreams in writing, and defining the soul. Second half of a class by William S. Burroughs on the technology and the ethics of wishing. This half contains additional commentary by Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. Included is a question and answer session that covers the space shuttle Challenger explosion, lucid dreaming, yoga, feminine energy, DNA, the Dalai Lama, and music. Waldman also discusses the ego, rituals, science and why questions, death, birth, mortality, and the bodhisattva. |
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09/11/86
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Caravan Of Dreams
Fort Worth, TX |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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09/11/86
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Caravan Of Dreams
Fort Worth, TX |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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??/??/86
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Commissioner of Sewers
Compilation, Compilation |
1 VHS |
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A+ |
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This film looks at the life and works of counter culture literary icon William S. Burroughs. Burroughs became a hero to the Beat Generation and its spiritual descendants down to the present day. He is best known for his book, The Naked Lunch, which chronicles his life as an addict. His style of writing, with its prismatic, erratic, hallucinatory quality, has been a major influence on subsequent writers. Burroughs' off beat and often cynical views are presented in the film, in conversations with the author. The topics include the importance of language, time and space travel, the function of dreams, life, death, and consciousness, presented in Burroughs' inimitable style. |
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??/??/86
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The Cat Inside
Unknown, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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04/10/87
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Wichita Art Association Theatre
Wichita, KS |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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??/??/87
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Unknown
Various, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Break Through in Grey Room is a collection of William S. Burroughs' speeches and cut-up recordings performed and recorded between 1960 and 1976. Some are actual pieces, and others are discussions of the pieces, such as "Origin and Theory of the Tape Cut-Ups," which he read at Boulder's Naropa University in 1976. Burroughs' incredibly detached voice only sounds better with age. He seems to exist between two worlds, and he constantly jumps back and forth from the conscious to the subconscious. In fact, one can hardly tell at any time which world it is that he inhabits. The bulk of the disc is consumed by one cut-up piece entitled "K-9 Was in Combat With the Alien Mind-Screens," which Burroughs claims was the result of writing as an art form, attempting to catch up to the advanced world of collage painting. This was one of Burroughs' earlier collaborations with Ian Sommerville. The Brion Gysin piece that Burroughs uses as a sample ("Recalling All Active Agents") is a brilliantly textured two-track recording that was made at the BBC studios in 1960 utilizing the drop-in method that Burroughs speaks about. This method entails a tape recorder recording a different player whilst randomly speeding up, slowing down, reversing, and advancing the second player. What occurs is a blubbery and blurry mess of words that surprisingly creates new sentences and phrases. Here Burroughs claims, "When you cut into the present the future leaks out." Other tracks are simply found sound field recordings. One such piece, "Jojouka," features Ornette Coleman playing in the hills of Morocco, recorded in January of 1973. This is a thoroughly interesting record of all of the types of recordings in which Burroughs took part in during his 87-year life, and serves as the perfect introduction to the tape experiments of the most intriguing of all of the beat writers. |
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??/??/89
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Unknown
Lawrence, KS |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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"The Western Lands" |
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??/??/90
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Dead City Radio
NA, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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One of the best Burroughs recordings, Dead City Radio features the writer reading five previously unreleased pieces, along with selections from several of his books. The acerbic Burroughs wit is at its finest on many of these selections, and he even takes a shot at singing on one track. Musical contributors to this project include Sonic Youth, Donald Fagen, Lenny Pickett, Cheryl Hardwick, Chris Stein, and John Cale. |
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09/25/92
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Red House Studios
Lawrence, KS |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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A ten-minute work which features Burroughs reading one of his tales while the late Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, contributes a sort-of musical backing comprised of insanely atonal guitar abuse. |
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??/??/93
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Unknown
Lawrence, KS |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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??/??/93
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Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales
NA, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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A collaboration between Burroughs, producer Hal Willner and politico-rappers Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. It features Burroughs reading excerpts from seven of his books set to music by the Heroes, mostly a slow, lazy funk that sounds like it was lifted from a '70s blaxploitation soundtrack. Highlights include the 16-minute, decidedly Burroughsian holiday treat "A Junky's Christmas" and "Words of Advice for Young People," which first appeared on the Smack My Crack collection, minus the music. |
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??/??/94
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Unknown
Lawrence, KS |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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With R.E.M. |
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??/??/95
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Junky
Lawrence, KS |
3 CD-R |
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A+ |
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William S. Burroughs Reads "Junky" [Abridged] |
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??/??/98
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The Best of William Burroughs
Various, NA |
4 CD-R |
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A+ |
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The Best of William S. Burroughs is a four-disc box set that contains several readings from Burroughs' most famous works, including excerpts from Naked Lunch. Burroughs' raspy, crackled voice was ideally suited to his surreal cut-and-paste narratives, and while it may be better to read his actual prose, this is an ideal spoken-word collection of his works. |
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??/??/00
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Uncommon Quotes
Various, NA |
1 CD-R |
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A+ |
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Various Recordings Spanning Burroughs' Career |
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Blues for Etree by Josh Simpson
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