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$75

Newest From the Vault

Four MP3-formatted discs = 40 hours of audio. This brand new compilation is packed with the best of last year’s of From the Vault, the weekly radio program from Pacifica Radio Archives that explores the ever-increasing collection of newly-restored audio.

Disc 1

  • Hollywood Blonde: documentary on Marilyn Monroe and Jean Harlow following Monroe's death

  • Civil Rights: recordings of Rosa Parks and Malcolm X

  • Arts and Literature: recordings of Ladysmith Black Mambazo

  • 1999 World Trade Organiztion and the “Battle in Seattle”: Ralph Nader and Paul Wellstone

  • Noam Chomsky: speeches from 1968 to present

  • Dustin Hoffman: conversation from 1970 on WBAI – New York

  • Musings of Jack Kerouac and George Carlin

  • Immigration and Labor Panel: 1982 discussion

  • John Cage: only known recording of him performing “45 minutes for a Speaker,” plus a 1966 interview

Disc  2

  • Noam Chomsky on Haiti and  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  • Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: readings from Roscoe Lee Browne, Lawrence Fishburne, Alfre Woodard and LeVar Burton

  • Lady Day: Billie Holiday – a documentary with Dizzie Gillespie and Lena Horne

  • Lorraine Hansberry memorial documentary

  • The Diary of Anaïs Nin –  reading prose and in conversation

  • The American Woman – dramatization and profile of 17th –20th century women.

Disc  3

  • War and Peace – highlights of WBAI's historic broadcast of Tolstoy’s novel in 1970

  • Dylan Thomas reading his poetry in 1952

  • Beat poet Diane di Prima in 1969

  • Pacifica founder Lewis Hill from newly discovered tapes

  • Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn

  • Lena Horne in 1966

  • Sun Ra in 1968

  • Phil Ochs and Friends: the folk singer performs on WBAI in 1972

Disc 4

  • The Alexandria Quartet – readings by Peter Finch, Julie Christy, Cloris Leachman, Roscoe Lee Brown, and 75 others.

  • Jimi Hendrix documentary

  • John Lennon celebration

  • Protest Songs and Songs of Peace

  • Edward Said

  • Triangle Fire of 1911 documentary

  • Free Speech Movement – recordings from 1964

  • Dolores Huerta

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$250

The Campus Campaign: 18 MP3 discs = 180 hours of audio in two volumes

This is a thorough exploration of over a dozen distinct subjects represented within the Pacifica Radio Archives refrigerated vault: Civil Rights, History, Arts & Literature, 1968, Women’s Studies, The Environment, Malcolm X, Noam Chomsky, and Studs Terkel, Black Power, Science, Native American Studies, Latino/Chicano Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, and Great Voices on Radio.  These volumes contains 180 hours of historic audio selected by Pacifica Archives collaborators and advisors, presented in mp3 format on 18 discs.

Volume One (90 hours)

Civil Rights: James Baldwin; We Shall Overcome – a Civil Rights documentary; Freedom Now! – a Civil Rights documentary; Remembering Cesar Chavez; A Feminist Journey; Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.; Forty Years of Ossie Davis; The Power of African American Women

United States History: An American Soldier; George Carlin, Pacifica, and the F.C.C.; The Free Speech Movement; Rachel Carson and Silent Spring; Meet Ralph Nader; Gore Vidal; Upton Sinclair: Changing America; Betty Friedan

Arts and Literature: Allen Ginsberg’s Howl; film critic Pauline Kael; Henry Miller; Jim Morrison, Poet; The Coltrane Legacy; Women in Film; Kurt Vonnegut; Woody Guthrie: Better World a Comin’; French Filmmaker Jean Renoir; Hitchcock and Hollywood

1968 – 40th Anniversary: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet 1968; The 1968 Columbia University Student Strike; The Paris Student Uprising; The Poor People’s Campaign; The Mexican American Experience; Robert F. Kennedy; A Night in Chicago: 1968 DNC; 1968 Year in Review Documentary

Women’s Studies: Margaret Mead –Anthropologist; Emma Goldman; June Jordan; Helen Caldicott; Women’s Poetry and Prose; Molly Ivins; Dolores Huerta; Women of the World; Miriam Makeba Tribute; Bella Abzug

Environment: Global Meltdown; Hiroshima; Rachel Carson; No Nukes Reunion; Spinning Disaster; Helen Caldicott; Linus Pauling;  Edward Teller

The Malcolm X Collection: The Ballot or the Bullet (Detroit, 1964); Black Muslims vs. The Sit-ins (Malcolm X and James Baldwin, 1961); Prospects for Freedom (Militant Labor Forum, 1965); Friends and Enemies, (February, 1965); Speech on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (Atlantic City, 1964); John Henrik Clarke on
Malcolm X

Noam Chomsky Celebration: The Crisis in Iraq: Understanding U.S. Motives Behind Sanctions and Confrontation (Boston, 1999); Speech on US. Foreign Policy and Its Effects (1998); The Media and the New World Disorder (1993); The New World Order (1991); Veteran’s Day with Noam Chomsky (1991); The Media as Propaganda (Santa Barbara, 1988); Town Hall Against the Draft / Noam Chomsky and Robert Bly (New York City, 1968); Noam Chomsky on the Middle East (1975); The Drift Toward Global War (Minneapolis, 1985)

Studs Terkel: The Spoken Century: Studs Terkel: The Spoken Century – a documenatry; Dorothy Parker, Zero Mostel, Leonard Bernstein, Daniel Ellsberg and Ralph Ellison interviewed by Studs Terkel; Phil Ochs interviewed by Studs Terkel; Joseph Campbell interviewed by Studs Terkel; Simone de Bouvier interviewed by Studs Terkel; Studs in Conversation with Tim Robins, 1999; Studs visits Pacifica Radio Archives in 2003

Volume 2 (90 hours)

Civil Rights 2: Cornell West; Odetta; Blues Legacies and Black Feminism; W.E.B. Du Bois: 100 Years of The Souls of Black Folk
Dick Gregory; Pacifica’s Juneteenth Special 2002; George Jackson and the Soledad Brothers; The Confessions of Nat Turner; Redefining Black Power in the Age of Obama

United States History 2: Plain Speaking: A Counter History of the United States; George Carlin; A Passel of Pomp and a Circus of Circumstance – documentary on the history of political conventions in the U.S.; Richard Nixon; The Real Norma Rae: Crystal Lee Sutton

Arts and Literature 2: The Village Gate; Shakespeare: This Was a Man; The Ballad of Pete Seeger; The Beat Poets of San Francisco; The Final Frontier: Science Fiction; Lillian Hellman: American Playwright; They Remember Dvorak

Black Power: The Black Panther Party: Bobby Seale, Huey Newton; H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver; Kathleen Cleaver and Elaine Brown; Police Actions; Trials/Tribulations; Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, and the Revolution for Breakfast; Rosa Parks, James Baldwin, Bayard Rustin and Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer; Angela Davis, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Kwame Toure, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, H. Rap Brown, Leroi Jones, John Hope Franklin

Science On the Role of Science / Aldous Huxley; Fallout and Disarmament / Linus Pauling and Edward Teller; Charles Darwin; Analogy and Science / J. Robert Oppenheimer; On Nuclear Morality / Bertrand Russell; Blacks In Science; Progress Through Fear / Buckminster Fuller

Native American Studies: John Trudell; Winona LaDuke; Alcatraz Panel with Indians from Various Tribes; Benefit for the Indians on Alcatraz with Malvina Reynolds and Buffy Sainte-Marie; Russell Means; Dennis Banks; Jack Forbes; Songs of Northern California Indians: Jaime de Angulo

Latino/Chicano Studies: Dolores Huerta; Resistance of the Maya; Flor Del Pueblo: Music of Resistance in Latin America; Carlos Castaneda and Lila Downs; The Delano Grape Strike: Cesar Chavez; La Raza Nueva with Moctesuma Esparza; Cherríe Moraga; Siqueiros: Political Artist; United Mexican-American Students Symposium at UCLA; Reies Tijerina: Leader of the Alianza

From the Vault: Gay and Lesbian Studies: 1979 March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights; Quentin Crisp; Christopher Isherwood; The Gay Movement from 1969-1979; The Harvey Milk Story; Time Line: Important Gay History; Transsexuals and the Police; Bisexuality

From the Vault: Great Voices on Radio: Gore Vidal – 14 Feb 1994; Jessica Mitford – 30 June 1960; Dylan Thomas – 7 May 1953; June Jordan – March 1991; Edward Said – 20 Feb 2003; Stokely Carmichael – Feb 1968; Cesar Chavez – 15 Jan 1966; Mario Savio – March 1979; Norman Mailer – 21 May 1965; Angela Davis – 1972; Molly Ivins – Aug 1992

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$350

24 MP3 Set = 240 hours

1. Newest From the Vault (see above)

2. The Campus Campaign, Volumes One & Two (see above)

3. Bill of Rights Radio Project and the Civil Liberties Education Project

10-hour MP3 disc.This 1983 series was designed to flesh out the gray areas in which the Bill of Rights has failed to offer protections to all Americans, and explore the true state of Civil Liberties.  Topics include due process, censorship, the first Amendment, the second Amendment, the eighth Amendment, prisons, the Constitution, abortion, national security, the courts, lobbying, extremist groups, affirmative action, and journalistic freedoms.


This series won the NFCB Golden Reel Award, the San Francisco State Broadcast Media Award, The American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award, The Ohio State Award for Broadcast Excellence, and an award from Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

4. The Pacifica Archives Music Project (10 hour MP3 disc)

The Ballad of Pete Seeger

This folk perspective on the struggle for equality and justice in the labor, civil rights and peace movements in the 20th century celebrates Pete Seeger’s life and times - featuring Pete in a candid 2005 conversation with actor and director Tim Robbins, historic audio from the Pacifica Radio Archives, and music. (118 minutes, from
PZ0710a-b)

The Coltrane Legacy

This special program celebrates the lives of John and Alice Coltrane with two rare recordings: Alice granted a rare interview just a year or so before her death in 2007, in which she spoke candidly and at length about her husband's music and his influence, and John granted an even more rare interview back in 1966... an interesting contrast of new and old! (121 minutes, from PZ0659.01-02)

Miriam Makeba at the Coconut Grove

Lena Horne introduces Miriam Makeba at the Coconut Grove in Hollywood on April 3, 1968 for a dazzling performance meant to serve as a fundraiser for still-fledgeling KPFK in Los Angeles. (32 minutes, from KZ1576)

Phil Ochs and Friends: The Drunken Follies

Phil Ochs, Dave Van Ronk and Patrick Sky, friends and folk pioneers, got together on April 21st, 1973 for an impromptu – and improbable – live performace on The Free Music Store, WBAI radio show dedicated to bringing live music to the New York City airwaves during the 1960’s and 1970’s. (151 minutes, from AZ1337a-c)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Live from Studio A

Ladysmith Black Mambazo performs a incredible live set in KPFK's venerable Studio A, just one day after taking the stage with Paul Simon at the 1987 Grammy Awards ceremony. This beautifully mixed session was recently painstakingly restored with astounding results. (31 minutes, from KZ3086)

Malvina Reynolds and Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Benefit for the Indians on Alcatraz

Folk singer, songwriter and activist Malivina Reynolds joins Native American singer Buffy Sainte-Marie in concert on December 12, 1969 to raise funds and critical awareness for the Indians occupying Alcatraz Island. (85 minutes, from BB2375a-d)

Introducing Bob Dylan

Dylan plays— for the first time live on-air — a little tune he called, Blowin' in the WInd.

Fela Kuti

This intimate conversation with Fela Kuti, creator of Afrobeat, was recorded in 1987.

FolkScene with Pete Seeger

Seeger stops by the FolkScene radio program in Los Angeles for an interview and on-air performance.

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$500

27 MP3 discs = 266 hours

1. Newest From the Vault (see above)

2. The Campus Campaign, Volumes One & Two (see above)

3. Bill of Rights Radio Project and the Civil Liberties Education Project (see above)

4. The Pacifica Archives Music Project (see above)

5. Alan Watts Library MP3 Collection (26 hours)

Philosophy: East and West, Numbers 1 – 39
  • The Future of Christian Philosophy IV
  • The Future of Christian Philosophy V
  • The Future of Christian Philosophy VI
  • Eastern Orthodox Spirituality
  • Return of the Forest
  • The Spiritual Odyssey of Aldous Huxley
  • The Task of the Prophet
  • Interview with Dr. Chang Chang-Yuan
  • The Work of Sokei Ah Sasaki
  • Fundamentals of Eastern Philosophy
  • Fundamentals of Buddhism
  • Discussion of Buddhist
  • Paul Tillich on the Eternal Now
  • Truth and Relativity
  • The Bhagava-gita, The Song of the Lord
  • The Useless in Art
  • Series: Philosophy: East and West; No. 17
  • Reconciliation of Opposites
  • A Problem Strategy
  • Parallel Thoughts: East and West
  • Bus or Tram?
  • Varieties of Order
  • Summary of Recent Programs
  • A.K. Coomaraswamy: “Sahaja”
  • The Fourth Way
  • The Study of Asia
  • Levels of Magnification
  • Love of Waters
  • The Constitution of Nature
  • The Libido for Ugliness
  • Karma, Law of Retribution
  • Kaplan’s “The New World of Philosophy”
  • Bernard Beinson’s “War Diaries”
  • Natural Law
  • Art, Philosophy, and Self Improvement 
  • Philosophy as Music
  • Answering Questions and Requests from Listeners
  • Haiku 
  • Astrology
  • Tribute to C.G. Jung
Way Beyond the West, Numbers. 1– 7
  • Introduction to Way Beyond the West
  • Insight and Ecstasy
  • Observations on the Beat Way of Life
  • Conscience and Concentration
  • The Art of psychoanalysis: part 1
  • The Art of psychoanalysis: part 2
  • The Art of psychoanalysis: part 3
  • Bang or Whimper?
  • Bang or Whimper ? (Sequel)
Bonus Discs
  • The Tea Ceremony
  • Mysticism and Morals, Part 1
  • Mysticism and Morals, Part 2
  • The Symbolic and the Real
  • Man is a Hoax
  • A Memorial Tribute to Alan Watts
  • In the Spirit
  • An Aquarian Age Religious Service, Part 1
  • An Aquarian Age Religious Service, Part 2
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$2,500

Custom Collection

Work with the Archives staff to create a completely unique and comprehensive legacy collection for you and a library.

 

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