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Clare Loeb interviews Claes Oldenburg in Maurice Tuchman's office at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art prior to the opening of the "Art and Technology" show on April 26, 1971. Oldenburg talks about the genesis and creation of his giant writhing icebag sculptures, one of which was exhibited in the show.

Second part of Jude McGee's special presentation for International Women's Day about women composers, with in-studio guest JoAnn Falletta, conductor of the Women's Philharmonic. Falletta talks about audience responses to the music performed by the Women's Philharmonic and how women are usually overlooked in the history of classical music.

Dr. William Jennings Bryan Henrie (1896-1972), a country doctor turned abortion rights activist after being convicted in 1962 for performing abortions, speaks at the Conference on Abortion and Human Rights on January 9, 1966 in San Francisco under the auspices of the Society for Humane Abortion.

WBAI's Bob Fried leads a panel discussion on how psychedelics, hallucinogenics and other related drugs are treated in contemporary society and on society's view of the use and abuse of said drugs. Panelists are Dr. Donald B. Luria, from the New York County Medical Society Subcommittee on Narcotics; Dr.

David Rothenberg interviews Dr. Tom Hannan and Dr. Michael Evans of the Community Research Initiative. The two doctors explain how members of the AIDS activist community are conducting their own medical research and organizing their own clinical drug trials.

Al Auster hosts a discussion of recent Hollywood films about women, namely "An Unmarried Woman', "Julia", and "The Turning Point". Panelists include Elizabeth Hess, cultural editor of "Seven Days" and "HERESIES"; Marjorie Rosen, film critic for Ms.

Singer-songwriter Judy Collins discusses her music, her politics and her career with KPFK's Barbara Cady. She talks about her artistic process, her prison reform activism, the emergence of women's music, and firing her manager. She also talks about music venues ripping off audiences with expensive ticket prices.

Jane Fonda of the Indochina Peace Campaign talks with Paul McIsaac about Haskell Wexler's "Introduction to the Enemy", a film she co-produced with Tom Hayden about North Vietnam. Fonda discusses why she set out to make the film and the film's "gentle" approach to the issues it portrays.

Paul Lion interviews Painter Lee Waisler who dumped a truckload of three tons of manure in front of the Los Angeles Times in reaction to an unfavorable review of his paintings and discusses art reviews. Waisler wanted to demonstrate to other artists that it is possibly to respond to the media in a constructive, nonviolent action.

New York University's Loeb Student Center's Art Committee joins with the Fine Arts Museum of the Women's Interart Center in presenting a series of special events to salute 1975: Women and Art.

Sonia Sanchez, teacher poet, essayist, dramatist, and storyteller, delivers two short talks for Black women students: "Development of Social Values and the Birth of a Poet" and "Women in Search of Truth" at the first annual meeting of Associated Women Students Commission (AWSC) of Cal State Long Beach.

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton and her "Hound Dog Blues Band" perform at the Museum of Modern Art's "Jazz in the Garden" series on July 22, 1971. The first eight minutes of the recording are a warm-up by Thornton's backing band. David Giorgio introduces Thornton and her band.

Al Silbowitz moderates a discussion between four students from Berkeley High School, two seniors and two juniors. They discuss the generation gap between parents and children regarding drug use and sex and the use of marijuana among students. The students talk about the police's disproportionate arrest and punishment of black youth versus white youth for minor offenses.

Edward Haber interviews Canadian singer-songwriters Kate (1946-2010) and Anna McGarrigle (1944 - ) at a coffee shop near Carnegie Hall on February 2, 1980. They talk about their upcoming release, <i>French Record</i>, which is sung entirely in French, the difference in folk music styles between French Canada and other countries, and singing in French to English audiences.

Actuality of a protest by members of the NYC gay community over the filming of William Friedkin's <i>Cruising</i> on August 20, 1979. [Unidentified female protester] reports that the protest successfully blocked the film's crew from shooting on Christopher Street the previous night.

Erika Seastrom, a member for 20 years of the Printers Union, describes her life working under terrible conditions in an almost entirely male trade. Seastrom describes the working conditions in New York City print shops, the extreme health hazards to employees, and the way in which she was harassed by men because she wore a skirt to work.Contains sensitive language. Contains recorded music.

Part 2 of Bob Fass' interview with the cast and director of the Broadway musical <i>Doonesbury</i>. Reathel Bean joins in the discussion by phone. Fass plays man-on-the-street commentary by people who enjoyed the musical. Each cast member explains what they think the musical is about.

Samuel Beckett's radio play <i>Embers</i> directed by Ira Wall and with performances by Stacy Keach and Sudie Bond.

Laura Malamut moderates a discussion between James Broughton, James Schofill, Tom Bullins, Michael Stewart, and Edith Kramer about the Bay Area experimental film scene. Among the topics discussed are where the audiences for experimental cinema are, whether or not there is actually an experimental film community in the Bay Area, and the "8mm revolution".

Ruth Witt-Diamant, Mark Linenthal, Stan Rice, Thomas Albright, Mark Green, and Dr. Francis Rigney discuss the poetry scene in the Bay Area. The panelists talk about Allen Ginsberg's relationship to the current poetry scene, the influence of Black Mountain poets, the multiple dimensions of a poem, and the poetry found in Bob Dylan and the Beatles.

Jaime Camino discusses the state of Spanish filmmaking under Franco's reign with KPFA's Colin Edwards. Camino discusses the political nature of Spanish films, censorship practices by the Spanish government, economic measures that influence production and distribution of films in Spain, and about Spanish productions that are filmed overseas.

Documentary of mining practices in Hazard County, Kentucky. Interviews with residents of Hazard who discuss the coal miners' union, the harassment union miners faced from large mining companies, and the unofficial strikes that are being organized in Hazard County. Includes interviews with strike leaders Berman Gibson, Preacher Smith, Graham Noble, retired miner Harley Caldwell, and Mrs.

Recording of the Freddie Hubbard Quintet performing at the La Bastille nightclub in Houston on November 21, 1973 (2nd set). They perform "Uncle Albert", "Brigitte", "Little Sunflower", and "Keep Your Soul Together."

Host Fred Geobold reveals his struggles with cancer. Musicians Gavin Parker and George Stass perform live in the studio. Former professional wrestler (ne John Sullivan) performs a monologue from his one-man show "An Evening with Johnny Valiant". Evan Ginzburg of wrestlingthenandnow.com recaps the past weekend's arts events.

Pete Wilson hosts a special "Gay Rage" edition of Gay Pride. Program begins with news announcements. Wilson vents his frustration with the journalist Arthur Bell over his article "Hostility Comes Out of the Closet" in the June 28, 1973 issue of the Village Voice.

Charles Ruas and Karen Achenbach talk to filmmakers Albert Maysles and Ellen Hovde about their documentary <i>Grey Gardens</i>. They talk about the origins of the film and how Maysles came to meet the Beales. They describe living conditions in the Beales' mansion. Maysles discusses the acceptance of eccentricity as a character trait in American society.

Barry Parker from WPFW's Film Exchange interviews Nancy Barker and Hart Perry, respectively the director of editing and principal cinematographer of Barbara Kopple's 1977 documentary <i>Harlan County USA</i>. The two discuss how they came to be involved in the film's production and about the scene in the film where strikebreakers attacked the film crew.

A group of people discuss the "News and Reviews" by opening up with a letter written by a 14 year-old male asking questions about homosexuality. They also address other topics such as a murder case. Kermit introduces the topic of meeting places and lists public areas such as 3rd Ave., Central Park West, and small local spots such as Brooklyn Heights and park around Riverside Dr.

Interview with members of the Willoughby Gospel Singers, a group of senior citizens who reside at the Willoughby Nursing Home in Brooklyn, NY. They perform "I'm so gray" and "Does Jesus care?" among other gospel numbers.

Extracts from an interview with an unnamed gay Holocaust survivor who talks about his experiences in a concentration camp.

Alex Paul talks with Studs Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) about his new book "American Dreams: Lost and Found." Terkel speaks to a Miss America winner, farm kids, city kids, a KKK member, and immigrants about what they consider to be their American Dream.

Actuality of Chinese-American cinematographer James Wong Howe talking about his career in Hollywood and taking questions from the audience at the 1974 San Francisco Film Festival following a screening of "Funny Lady".

Judy Mowatt (1952 - ), reggae singer and one-time member of the I-Three's and backup singer for Bob Marley and the Wailers, performs live with the One Vibe Band at SOB's (co-presented by WBAI-FM), her first live solo performance in New York City.

Algene Besser reviews the art, anti-art assemblage exhibit at the Civic Center Museum which consists of 200 works. He describes the difference in the styles of Dadaists, cubists, surrealists, and futurists and speaks about the influence in the art pieces. RECORDED: Mar. 1962. BROADCAST: KPFA, 8 Apr. 1962.

Blues musician Koko Taylor (1928 - 2009) is interviewed by WBAI by phone from Chicago. Taylor talks about her religious upbringing, her musical influences, and why young people don't know anything about blues music.

The performance artist discusses literary, technical, and musical aspects of her work. The first part of this episode analyzes the literary aspects of Anderson's work, such as her penchant for funny stories and wordplay. Anderson talks about fellow artist Chris Burden and the elimination of metaphor.

Hosts Bill Barlow and Jerry Washington interview blues singer and pianist Charles Brown (1922 - 1999) before his performance at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater. The Rhythm & Blues Foundation's Howell Beagle introduces Brown.

A radio adaptation of Monique Wittig's surrealistic drama about militant feminist consciousness transformed into action. The play imagines a literal battle of the sexes in which women, having taken up arms, triumph against an army of men. Contains recorded music. Adapted from an English translation of "Les guérillères", trans. David Le Vay (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1971).

The Firesign Theatre cover the "Southern Hemisphere Olympics" from Patagonia.

"Little" Jimmy Scott is interviewed by hosts Bill Barlow and Jerry Washington before Ruth Brown's performance at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater.

Continuation of live coverage of the anti-Gulf War demonstration in Washington, D.C., hosted by WBAI's Amy Goodman and Robert Knight. Goodman reads more of the day's news from the Middle East. Pamela Michaels from KPFA reports live from a San Francisco anti-war rally. Robert Knight reports that the rally site has been changed to the Washington Mall from the Martin Luther King, Jr.

Robert Sklar speaks with Lizzie Borden, director of the American independent political film "Born in Flames". The film is based on a post-revolutionary atmosphere in New York. Issues of sexism, racism, and class continue to bedevil the society. Borden and Sklar have a great discussion about women figures in the film and the impact of socialism.

Comedian, writer and filmmaker Mel Brooks discusses his life and career. He talks about how all Indians are Jews, losing his New York Jewish accent and his new movie "Young Frankenstein". Brooks offers his thoughts on obscene language, responds to people who don't like his comedies, and explains his own dislike of topical humor.

WBAI's Paul Wunder asks Woody Allen why there are no black people in his movies at a press conference for <i>Mighty Aphrodite</i>.<br><br>Excerpt from a longer recording. Full interview published in November 2, 1995 issue of Arts Magazine.

An absolutely authentic white cajun band from the Bayou Country plays a set of folk music. The Balfas holler and let you know they enjoy what they do. The band is made up of two fiddles, two guitars, an accordion, and a triangle. The recording fades with "Mardi Gras Jig".

Excerpts from a reading by women whose work appears in <i>Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology</i>, ed. Evelyn Torton Beck, published by Persephone Press (Watertown, MA), 1982. Recorded June 16, 1982 at WomanBooks in New York City. Irena Klepfisz introduces the evening with a message about the crisis in the Middle East.

Bruce Brown of Public Affairs Department of WBAI introduces the first of two speeches on the origins of the Gay Rights Movement which was recorded during the Organization of American Historians Convention in New York City. Following, Dr.

Part two of Pacifica Radio's coverage of the United States Senate Armed Forces Committee's hearings concerning openly gay and lesbian servicemembers in the US military. Witnesses include Dr. David Segal, Dr. Judith Stiehm, Dr. Charles Moskos and Lieutenant General Calvin A.H. Waller (Ret.). Senators who speak include Sen. J. James Exon (D-NE), Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC), Sen.

Jack Spicer lectures on poetry and politics at the Berkeley Poetry Conference at the University of California, Berkeley on July 4, 1965. Spicer discusses the exploitation of young poets, the efficacy of political poetry, and ruminates on both Vietnam and the Free Speech Movement, followed by questions from the audience. Spicer is introduced by Thomas Parkinson.

Christopher Alexander, a world-renowned progressive architect, discusses the directions of contemporary design. In the second half of this program he elaborates on his conception of wholeness. Alexander argues against people conceptualizing themselves as being "mechanisms" inside of a larger sphere.

Writer and activist Rita Mae Brown (1944 - ) delivers a speech at the Women's Building in Los Angeles on July 4, 1976. Brown talks about the way both men and women suffer under the patriarchy through pornographic violence and nostalgia in the mass media.

American poet, Robert Duncan, reads some of his own works. He reads "Homage to Coleridge" written in 1955, a poem from the book "Letters" to be published in 1957, and two poems from the book, "The Opening of the Field". He also sings a song which comes at end of the first act of the play "Maidenhead".

Joan Greenbaum speaks with Howard Saunders of the Institute for Labor Education and Research about the closing of the tape production 3M factory in Bruce Springsteen's hometown of Freehold, New Jersey.

Sweet Honey in the Rock perform "Dream Variations and Dream Deferred", "This Little Light of Mine", "We Shall Overcome", "More Than a Paycheck", "Seven Principles", "Amazing Grace", and other songs. Audio levels fluctuate throughout recording.

Second part of a panel discussion entitled "The 1975 Art World: The Women in It", held at New York University's Loeb Student Center in conjunction with the Fine Arts Museum of the Women's Interart Center as part of a series of special events to salute "1975: Women and Art", on Wednesday, May 7th, 1975 at 7pm.

The recording is of a benefit concert for the Sunset Hall retirement home in Los Angeles, which provides housing for senior citizens who have dedicated their lives to social action movements. The host provides a brief history and purpose of Sunset Hall. Ross Altman begins by singing "The Ballad of Sunset Hall".

Author and historian Stuart Ewen discusses the Cabbage Patch Kids doll phenomenon in the United States. He describes his attempts to contact Coleco to interview a Cabbage Patch doll.

WBAI's Rich Schrader interviews actor John Cullum and Admiral Gene La Rocque from the Center for Defense Information about the controversial post-apocalyptic TV movie "The Day After". Schrader expresses his own dissatisfaction with both the film and the post-film roundtable that included Henry Kissinger, William F. Buckley, Jr., Robert McNamara, George P.

This program is an examination of network television as an industry, including centralized decision making, conglomerate ownership, interlocking directorates, defense contracting, the role of advertising and its effect on programming, and the involvement of the consumer.

An informal discussion between nine lesbians, all in their early-to-mid-twenties, recorded at an apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village and moderated by Charles Hayden (later Randolfe Hayden "Randy" Wicker). The women discuss how one becomes a lesbian, their relationships with their parents, and how they relate to gay and straight men and women.

The Shakespeare Liberation Front reads Grace Paley's short story "The Loudest Voice." Cast includes Deborah Zane, Don Robbins, Sally Francis, Steven Eldridge, Christine Stevens, and Richard Mann. Live music by the Shakespeare Liberation Front Singers with Don Robbins on piano. Adapted for radio and directed by Jeffrey Shandler and Don Robbins. Produced by Claude Eth[sp?].

The second of two symposia sponsored by the Esalen Institute on the value of psychotic experience, entitled "The Poetry of Madness", recorded July 31, 1968 at the Longshoremen's Memorial Hall in San Francisco.

Dr. Judd Marmor talks about the myth that war is part of human nature, fear, dehumanization, habitation, the inability to conceptualize, denial and many other mind sets that are the result of the arms race and build-up that is going on in the world now.<br><br>The recording took place at UCLA.

An hour of music and talk with the The Red Star Singers, one of the San Francisco Bay Area's best political/anti-war music groups of the early 1970s. Music includes some songs not released widely by the group, and therefore, rarely heard outside the bay area. The members include Gary Lapow, Bonnie Lockhart, Mike Margulis, and Ron Rosenbaum.

A discussion about the history and present-day of Christopher Street in New York's Greenwich Village, including its centrality to gay life, with guest Jimmy Ryan, street peddler and publisher of the Warehouse Newsletter.

Continued from part two: A phone-in listener suggests that Christopher Street be blocked off to cars altogether. Another listener brings up a recent shooting at Uncle Paul's, a West Village gay bar.

Women's news with Judy Pasternak for the week of March 7, 1985, incorporating KPFA's Majority Report.

Barbara Gittings and Charles Pitts talk with two young lesbians, Donna and Kathy. They talk about how young lesbians can enter the lesbian social world, the link between physical and emotional attraction between women, what high school is like for young lesbians, and the lack of lesbian establishments in NYC.

Press conference at which Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, of the Indochina Peace Campaign, discuss their conversations with North Vietnamese officials and their actions against the war in Vietnam in New York City. Hayden discusses how Americans need to pressure Nixon to sign peace agreements ensuring a friendly government controlling South Vietnam.

Jack Spicer's delivers his first Vancouver lecture, "Dictation and 'A Textbook of Poetry'", recorded at Warren Tallman's house in 1965. A complete transcript of this talk is available in Peter Gizzi, ed., The house that Jack built: the collected lectures of Jack Spicer (Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1998, 4-19).

Tony Cavin and Marc Cooper interview video game players at the Castle Park video arcade in Sherman Oaks, CA. Among the video games discussed are Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and Dig Dug. The hosts explain the differences between home games and games played in the arcade, as well as the controversy over violent and sexual video games like Custer's Last Stand and War Command.

A celebration of the 10th annual Lesbian Pride Week, featuring poets & artists who will be appearing during this year's events. Alix Dobkin's song "Women Loving" opens the program. Jewelle Gomez reads her poem "Flamingos and Bears".

Dr. J.S. Holliday, who was relieved of his duties as director of the new Oakland Museum shortly before its opening, Julia Hare, the Oakland Museum's former coordinator of education, and Peggy Stinnett, journalist for the Oakland Montclarion, discuss the responsibilities and potentials of a museum in relation to the community which it serves.

Writer-director Woody Allen (1935 - ) discusses the difference between intercourse and oral sex and President Clinton. Excerpt from longer interview.

WBAI's Janet Coleman speaks with Yoko Ono by phone about her latest album, <i>Blueprints for a Sunrise</i>. She talks about how the events of September 11th, 2001, the women's struggle and the experience of war have informed her creative process.