***Noted music producer and scholar PAT THOMAS spent five years in Oakland, CA researching Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975. While befriending members of the Black Panther Party, Thomas discovered rare recordings of speeches, interviews, and music by noted activists HUEY NEWSTON, BOBBY SEALE, ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, ELAINE BROWN, THE LUMPEN and many others that form the framework of this definitive retrospective. Listen, Whitey! also chronicles the forgotten history of Motown Records. From 1970 to 1973, Motown’s Black Power subsidiary label, Black Forum, released politically charged albums by STOKELY CARMICHAEL, AMIRI BARAKA, LANGSTON HUGHES, BILL COSBY & OSSIE DAVIS, and many others, all represented. Also explored are the musical connections between BOB DYLAN, JOHN LENNON, GRAHAM NASH, THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY (!?!) and the Black Power movement. Obscure recordings produced by SNCC, RON KARENGA’s US, the TRIBE and other African-American sociopolitical organizations of the late 1960s and early ’70s are examined along with the ISLEY BROTHERS, NINA SIMONE, ARCHIE SHEPP, ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO, CLIFFORD THORNTON, WATTS PROPHETS, LAST POETS, GENE MCDANIELS, ROLAND KIRK, HORACE SILVER, ANGELA DAVIS, H. RAP BROWN, STANLEY CROUCH, and others that spoke out against oppression. Other sections focus on Black Consciousness poetry (from the likes of JAYNE CORTEZ, wife of Ornette Coleman), inspired religious recordings that infused god and Black Nationalism, obscure regional and privately pressed Black Power 7-inch soul singles from across America. 90,000 words of text are accompanied by over 250 large sized, full-color reproductions of album covers and 45 rpm...
BK $35.35
02/21/2012
***BACK IN STOCK!!! This wildly comprehensive release features A-to-Z coverage of over 1100 feature films from around the world, as well as dozens of exclusive interviews with the cast/creators of crucial titles like Repo Man, Return of the Living Dead, The Decline of Western Civilization and Valley Girl. Also examined are countless prime examples of straight-to-VHS slasher trash, Brooklyn skid row masterpieces, Filipino breakdancing fairytales, no-budget apocalyptic epics and movies that shouldn't even have been released, many of which have never been written about. Plus hundreds of eyeball-smashing stills and posters, many in full color! In addition, the book features tons of exclusive interviews with music/big screen luminaries including IAN MACKAYE, RICHARD HELL, PENELOPE SPHEERIS, NIC ZEDD, JOHN DOE & EXENE CERVENKA, ALEX COX, MARTHA COOLIDGE, LEE VING, KEITH MORRIS, MARY WORONOV and many more! Destroy All Movies!!! nails down decades of insanity with superhuman research, vicious precision and electrically charged stills and images, and is the first and final definitive armchair roadmap to punk and new wave on celluloid. Five years in the making, this pulse-bursting monument to lowbrow cultural obsession is a must for all film fanatics, music maniacs, anti-fashion mutants, '80s nostalgists, sleazoids, cop-killers and spazzmatics! Edited by ZACK CARLSON and BYRAN CONNOLLY.
BK $29.50
12/28/2010