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Political ballads and songs.

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PRA Archive #sort descending Title Description Genre Broadcast Date
AZ0164 No nukes is good nukes / produced by David King Dunaway.

Music from the anti-nuclear power movement: live performance by Lenny Anderson, Clifford...

KPFA, June 4, 1978.
AZ0185 Singing in the public sector / produced by Ed Schoenfeld.

Labor music of San Franciso Bay area; interviews with the Board Erasers, Prairie Fire, and Laura...

KPFA, June 18, 1978.
AZ0186 Songs of the unemployment lines / produced by Ed Schoenfeld.

Songs from the unemployed about the unemployed; Gary La Poe and Prairie Fire.

KPFA, May 21, 1978.
AZ0187 Solidarity songs of the United Farm Workers / produced by Ed Schoenfeld.

Music from boycotts of the 1960s and 1970s; Malvina Reynolds, Gary La Poe, and Peter Beard.

KPFA, June 18, 1978.
AZ0228 Ruthie Gorton sings her own songs / produced by Ed Schoenfeld

Ruthie Gorton is a Los Angeles based "movement singer" who has performed around the...

American Women -- Music and musicians KPFA, March 25, 1977
AZ0310 Bound for glory : Woody Guthrie, 1912-1967 / produced by David King Dunaway.

On the folk singer's life and songs. Bob Dylan, Marjorie Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger...

KPFA, Aug. 1979.
AZ0311 Talking Union / produced by David King Dunaway.

The first political protest songs from 1941-1942. Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Lee...

KPFA, Aug. 1979.
AZ0312 People's songs, people's artists / produced by David King Dunaway.

Traces songs of the post World War II labor movement with oral histories, FBI files, and...

KPFA, Aug. 1979.
AZ0313 If I had a Hammer / produced by David King Dunaway.

History of early 1950s singing group the Weavers. Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Don McClean, and Arlo...

KPFA, Aug. 1979.
AZ0314 We shall overcome / produced by David King Dunaway.

How the early 1960s civil rights movement produced the Freedom Singers. Bernice Johnson Reagon,...

KPFA, Aug. 1979.
AZ0315 Pastures of plenty / produced by David King Dunaway.

Songs of the farmworkers struggling for better conditions.|PASTURES OF PLENTY / produced by...

KPFA, Aug. 1979.
AZ0450 The energy will flow: antinuclear music by women / produced by Susan Kernes and Kori Kody

This program presents music by activist women working in the anti-nuclear/safe energy movement....

American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism, American Women -- Music and musicians KPFA, September 15, 1979
BB5469 Huey Newton music and poetry.

Poetry readings and music about the Black's struggle in America.

KPFA, 1970.
BC2189 Dr. Demento / interviewed by Barbara Cady.

Popular disc jockey Dr. Demento and Cady discuss and play some political music.

KPFK, 23 Jan. 1975.
BC3049 Songs / produced by Peter Boyd.

Collection of political music.

KPFK, 10 Aug. 1975.
IZ0040 Lucecita / produced by Martha Katz.

Songs relating political and artistic development of Puerto Rican Lucecita Benitez.

WBAI, May 27, 1977.
IZ0072 Chile: resistance, repression, and other realities / produced by John Fisk.

Chile since the coup; Chilean song movement; interviews with Mrs. Letelier, Michael Moffitt, and...

WBAI, Sept. 11, 1977.
IZ0241 Songs of the Algerian liberation.

Recorded music.

WBAI, Apr. 15, 1964.
IZ0242 Songs of the Spanish resistance.

Recorded music.

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Song of the bourgeoise madam. -- Summer has already ended. -- No bread. -- Then France... --...

WBAI, Apr. 13, 1964.
IZ0243 Songs from modern Cuba.

Recorded music.

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Sierra maestra. -- Fidel ya llego. -- Viva la revolution. -- Los Barbudos. -- Hymne de la milice...

WBAI, Apr. 13, 1964.
KZ0069 Chairman Mao in music and song / produced by Carlos Hagen.

On the music written about Mao Tse-Tung.

KPFK, Nov. 14, 1976.
KZ0086 The Romance of the revolutionary song / produced by Carlos Hagen.

Comparison of revolutionary songs from many cultures and times; includes musical examples.

KPFK, 1977?
KZ0159 Inti-Illimani in concert / recorded by Tim Harding.

Popular songs by the Chilean group about Latin America's struggles; includes songs by...

KPFK, Sept. 14, 1975.
KZ0401.01 Barbara Nestor / interviewed by Dorothy Healey. ,

Laurie Alexandre introduces Dorothy Healey (1914 - 2006), former chair of the Southern...

American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women's history KPFK, Sept. 25, 1977.
KZ0577 A tribute to Malvina Reynolds / produced by Pearl Skotnes.

Tribute to folk singer and activist Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978), which aired several days after...

American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Activists KPFK, 22 Mar. 1978.
KZ0686 All the places we've been / Gil Scott-Heron ; interviewed by Anita Frankel.

Discussion about politics and his music; includes music from albums and from his survival Sunday...

KPFK, June 13, 1979.
KZ0712 On the left / Malvina Reynolds interviewed by Dorothy Healey

Dorothy Healey interviews Malvina Reynolds at KPFK. They talk about communicating with people of...

KPFK, Jan. 18, 1977; Jan. 8, 1978; Mar. 18, 1979
KZ0750 In the gloom of might cities : songs for labor day / produced by Mario Casetta.

Songs and reminiscences about the 1930s labor movement by Bill Woolf, Verne Partlow, Waldemar...

KPFK, Sept. 2, 1979.
KZ0901 Stop San Onofre : summer solstice festival, 1980 / produced by Bob Aldrich.

Actuality. Collage of music and speeches from the anti-nuke rally.

KPFK, June 24, 1980.
KZ0911 Gil Scott-Heron / interviewed by Anita Frankel.

On his music and political views; includes recorded music.

KPFK, Mar. 21, 1980.
KZ0991 Songs of the coal miners / Guy Carawan and Candy Carawan ; interviewed by Ed Pearl.

Tennessee Highlander Folk Center members sing miner and union songs, also discuss women...

KPFK, 1980.
KZ1020 John Lennon : the political and the personal / written and produced by Jon Wiener.

A documentary containing released and unreleased music; excerpts from the RKO interview;...

KPFK, Apr. 15, 1981.
KZ1021 The Making of a house radical : a doomed project / produced by Clare Spark and Marc Cooper.

Memorial to musician Phil Ochs, includes music and anecdotes.

KPFK, Apr. 5, 1981.
KZ1151 Malvina and Dorothy / produced by Dorothy Healey.

Folk singer Malvina Reynolds talks with Dorothy Healey and sings some of her own songs about the...

American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Music and musicians KPFK, 8 Jan. 1978; 18 Mar. 1979.
KZ1203 Sing out for freedom : songs of the integration movement / by Guy and Candie Carawan.

Concert by the folk singers.

KPFK, Sept. 11, 1965.
SZ0024 Cantos Nicaragua libre / Otto de la Rocha and Los de Palacaquines, produced by John Walsh.

Music supporting the revolution and literacy campaign in Nicaragua.

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SZ0182 FMLN ballad.

FMLN members sing their anthem.

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WZ0204 The Nicaraguan struggle : a poetry special / produced by Bob Enger.

Words and music on the political struggle in Nicaragua: Pat Cohen, Denise Oliver, Ethelbert...

WPFW, 1977?
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