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2007 Adopted Tapes



On February 18, 2007 multimedia artist and composer Allee Willis hosted a "Sound of Soul" Adopt a Tape Party. The following tapes were adopted (note: click the title to listen to the program in your browser):

Archive # Program Year In the name of...
BB4661 Men and women in the arts concerned with Vietnam : benefit for Martin Luther King 1968 LaChanze Purchase a Copy
BB0873 After the Murder of Four Children / James Baldwin 1963 Steve and Pia Vai Purchase a Copy
BB3415 The Unknown American Negro Artist / Romare Bearden; interviewed by Jeanne Siegel 1967 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Purchase a Copy
BB4239 Julian Bond at Princeton 1969 Gail Zappa Purchase a Copy
BC1107 Diahann Carrol at the Fairmont / interviewed by Herbert Feinstein 1969 Craig Fisse Purchase a Copy
BB0898 Ideological forces in work of Negro writers / Horace Cayton 1964 Michael Patrick King Purchase a Copy
BB4136 Angela Davis and Charlene Mitchell 1971 Louise Mayhand Purchase a Copy
AZ0137 Esther Phillips: An interview by Angela Davis 1977 Hillary Carlip Purchase a Copy
AZ0146 Carmen McRae / Interviewed by Angela Davis 1978 Brenda Russell Purchase a Copy
PZ0349.00 Building Bridges: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Interview 1998 Nehemiah Zidane Walker Purchase a Copy
KZ2230 World Peace and Revolt in Africa with W.E.B. DuBois 1953 Scott Blockland and Michael Mishaw Purchase a Copy
IZ0357 Interview with Katherine Dunham 1974 Maxine Lapiduss Purchase a Copy
BB0826 Ralph Gleason interviews Dick Gregory 1963 Holly Brooks Purchase a Copy
BB0170 How to be sane though Negro / S. I. Hayakawa 1956 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Purchase a Copy
BB3200 Trial by Sex / Flo Kennedy and Ti-Grade Atkinson 1968 Laura Nix Purchase a Copy
BB3172a Martin Luther King Memorial in Central Park, Part 1 1968 Allee Willis Purchase a Copy
BB3172b Martin Luther King Memorial in Central Park, Part 2 1968 Allee Willis Purchase a Copy
BB0566 Commentary of a Black Southern bus rider / Rosa Parks ; interviewed by Sidney Roger 1956 The Aldon Family Purchase a Copy
BB2246.04 Biography of Marcus Garvey 1967 Deborah Cox and Lascelles Stephens Purchase a Copy
PZ0208a A Burst of Light: A Tribute to Audre Lorde, Part A 1993 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Purchase a Copy
PZ0208b A Burst of Light: A Tribute to Audre Lorde, Part B 1993 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Purchase a Copy
BB1719.04a The Lives of Black Entertainers, Part 1 1968 Diane Steinberg Lewis Purchase a Copy
BB1719.04b The Lives of Black Entertainers, Part 2 1968 Kenny, Sierra, and Kendra Lewis Purchase a Copy
BB1719.01 Lives and times of some famous and not-so-famous Black personalities 1968 Diane Steinberg Lewis Purchase a Copy
AZ0973 The Power of African American Women 1992 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Purchase a Copy
KZ1207 Our Sheroes and Heroes / Maya Angelou ; interviewed by Susan Anderson 1982 Gail Zappa Purchase a Copy
BB5287 Anita Barrows Reading Her Poetry 1970 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Purchase a Copy
BB1910A A Poetry Reading / Written and read by Gwendolyn Brooks and Leroi Jones, Part A 1964 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Purchase a Copy
BB1910B A Poetry Reading / Written and read by Gwendolyn Brooks and Leroi Jones, Part B 1964 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Purchase a Copy
PZ0231 Rita Dove 1994 Prudence Fenton Purchase a Copy
BB4015 Ask Your Mama / written and read by Langston Hughes 1961 Antonio Hendricks Purchase a Copy
BC0463 Langston Hughes Memorial 1968 Kevin G. Schoeler Foundation Purchase a Copy
BB3428 Leroi Jones 1966 Bruce E. Vaughn Purchase a Copy
AZ0955 The Politics of Childhood 1990 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Purchase a Copy
SZ0666A Bob Kaufman, Poet: The Life and Times of an African-American Man, Part A 1992 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Purchase a Copy
SZ0666B Bob Kaufman, Poet: The Life and Times of an African-American Man, Part B 1992 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Purchase a Copy
BB3493 Poetry by seventh and eighth grade students at J.H.S. 271 / produced by Julius Lester 1968 Johanna Cooper / Abbie Phillips Purchase a Copy
KZ0884 Eroticism and Pornography / Audre Lorde, produced by Helene Rosenbluth 1979 L.A. Eyeworks Purchase a Copy
BB0882 Symposium on Richard Wright 1965 Georgia Wise Purchase a Copy
AZ0070 The Cool Music Makers on the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1977 Village Adopters: Nancy Ferguson, Charles George Holly Palmer, Charles Phoenix, Stan Zimmerman Purchase a Copy
SZ0578.01 Miles Davis radio project, Part 1 1990 Al, Suzanne and Nina Yankovic Unavailable
SZ0578.04 Miles Davis Radio Project, Part 4 1990 Franne Golde and Syd Fox Unavailable
SZ0578.07a Miles Davis Radio Project, Part 7a 1990 Linda Hart and Bill Forster Unavailable
SZ0578.07b Miles Davis Radio Project, Part 7b 1990 Linda Hart and Bill Forster Unavailable
IZ0112a Duke Ellington at Basin Street East, Part A 1964 In memory of Frank Zappa Purchase a Copy
IZ0112b Duke Ellington at Basin Street East, Part B 1964 In memory of Frank Zappa Purchase a Copy
WZ0210 Black Music / Ntozake Shange and Thulani Davis interviewed by Joan Thornell 1977 Dean Pitcher and Michael Mealiffe Purchase a Copy
AZ0314 We shall overcome / produced by David King Dunaway 1979 Wendy Eisenshtadt Purchase a Copy
PZ0164 Mandela at the United Nations 1990 Penelope Glass Purchase a Copy
KZ1444a South African Christmas Special: South Africa shall be free, Part A 1987 Holly Brooks Purchase a Copy
KZ1444b South African Christmas Special: South Africa shall be free, Part B 1987 Holly Brooks Purchase a Copy
AZ0892 Winnie Mandela Panel / Moderated by Alice Walker 1987 Jason Couvillion and Chad Green Purchase a Copy
AZ0607a You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down / Alice Walker, Part 1 1981 Allee Willis Purchase a Copy
AZ0607b You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down / Alice Walker, Part 2 1981 Allee Willis Purchase a Copy
BB3684 Two Short Stories / William Styron and James Baldwin 1963 LaChanze Purchase a Copy
IZ0441 Alice Walker reads her Poetry 1978 Allee Willis Purchase a Copy
AZ0936 Poets and Politicians Against the War / June Jordan 1991 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB3008 Negro Rights in Africa and America / Kenneth Duanda and Bayard Rustin 1960 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB3829.18 Future of Minorities / Bayard Rustin 1968 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB4425.01 This Little Light No. 1: The New Negro 1969 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB4425.02 This Little Light No. 2: Valley View 1969 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB4425.03 This Little Light No. 3: Harmony 1969 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB4425.04 This Little Light No. 4: The Invasion 1969 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB4425.05 This Little Light No. 5: The Freedom Schools 1969 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB4425.06 This Little Light No. 6: The Shaw Boycott 1969 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB4425.07 This Little Light No. 7: No Right To Vote 1969 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB4425.08 This Little Light No. 8: The Freedom Democratic Party 1969 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB4425.09 This Little Light No. 9: The Two Conventions 1969 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB4425.10 This Little Light No. 10: The Challenge 1969 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB4425.11 This Little Light No. 11: The End of Summer 1969 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB4425.12 This Little Light No. 12: Conclusion 1969 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB5348a_1 Lorraine Hansberry: In Her Own Words, Part 1 1967 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB5348a_2 Lorraine Hansberry: In Her Own Words, Part 2 1967 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB5348b Lorraine Hansberry: In Her Own Words, Part 3 1967 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB5348c Lorraine Hansberry: In Her Own Words, Part 4 1967 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
IZ0354 June Jordan Interview 1974 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
KZ1246 Women's Words / Adrienne Rich; interviewed by Eloise Klien Healy 1983 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
KZ2039 Self Help for African American Women / bell hooks 1993 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
AZ0974 From the Cancer Journals / Audre Lorde 1978 Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Purchase a Copy
BB4497.01a Tribute to Lorraine Hansberry, Part 1 1967 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Purchase a Copy
BB4497.01b Tribute to Lorraine Hansberry, Part 2 1967 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Purchase a Copy
BB4497.01c Tribute to Lorraine Hansberry, Part 3 1967 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Purchase a Copy

2006 Adopted Tapes

Program In the name of...
A Patriot Returns: A Talk by Gore Vidal Randy Saldinger
Acid Test David Mezzetta
Analogy and Science: A talk by J. Robert Oppenheimer Linda Maisner, John Spragens
Battle of Da Nang: Reported by Dale Minor Robert Teeter
Chicago Dynamic: Frank Lloyd Wright and Carl Sandburg discuss Architecture and American Society Lance Charles, Margaret Kenny
Desmond Tutu: address to the Ca. Legislature Jane Jackson
For He's Touched Your Perfect Body With His Mind - Leonard Cohen Natasa and Jasmin Nakic
Interview With John Cage Suzanne Lefevre
Natural Psychotropics Claude V Offray III
Noam Chomsky: America's Aversion to Democracy- Rabihah Mateen
Outstairs and Instairs/ Buckminster Fuller Lance Charles
Patty Hearst Kidnapping Marilyn Montenegro
The Bicycling Option Chuck Lefler
The Cold War Habit Gurumantra and Dharma Khalsa

2005 Adopted Tapes

Program
A Conversation with John Cage
An Interview with John Coltrane
At San Quentin after the Death of George Jackson
Brecht Before HUAC
Daniel Berrigan: Poetical Pacifist
Dolores Huerta, Vice President of UFW
Dylan Thomas Reads
Gene Debs of Terre Haute
Happy Muerta To You
Hard Travelling: Woodie Guthrie Remembered
John Lennon: The Political and the Personal
Liberation Theology
Malcom X: The Ballot or the Bullet
Massacre: The Story of East Timor Rebellion Ended
Paul Robeson: World Citizen
The Basic Religious Question of Our Time
The Catonsville 9: Father Phillip Berrigan and David Eberhardt
The Final Revolution
The Trial of The San Quentin Six
WBAI's First Amendment Case
Bobby Seale Statement at KPFK
The Day the Attica

2004 Adopted Tapes

Program In the name of...
25 Poems, Written and Read by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Barry Crawford
The AIDS Summit of the Year Sally Hoover
Alan Watts: Love of Water Diana Castle
Address by Thich Nhat Hanh Dan Quinn;
Matthew J. Wheeland
Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador (his last interview) Alan Young
Artist's Struggle for Integrity ACTRA Toronto
Black Women in America Valerie Peace
Bobby Seale Statement at KPFK Michelle Noble
Brecht before HUAC Daniel Benzali
Buckminster Fuller on Synergetics Gretchen Leavitt
Can We Survive the Present? Kathryn Tobias;
Laura Wong
Cherrie Moraga: Loving in the War Years Sandra Golvin
Chicano Moratorium Maria C. Lopez (from Rene, Neomi, Ginger and Jojo Lopez)
Conference on the Fate of the Earth Matthew J. Wheeland
Convention Aftermath Howard Watkins
Conversation with John Cage James Kirst
Courtroom and the Legislature: Abortion Laws Clothing of the American Mind
Dylan Thomas Reads Daniel Benzali
Economics of Energy Evelyn Stern
Eric Hobsbawn (Interview by Dorothy Healey) Richard Roast
Eroticism and Pornography Sandra Golvin;
HMKRR
Fallout and Disarmament Lara Gundel
Final Revolution Daniel Benzali
Gene Debs of Terre Haute Daniel Benzali
Happy Muerta To You Carol Sobel
Hard Travelling: Woody Guthrie Remembered Haskell Wexler
Homosexual in our Society: A Panel Discussion American Friends Service Committee (Pacifica Mountain Region)
Interview with John Coltrane Daniel Benzali
Interview with Sun Ra Robert Boyle;
Kim White
Interview with a Texas Working Girl Ginna & Molly Allison
Iran-Contra Special Richard Roast;
Louis Wolf
John Lennon: The Political and the Personal Rich Jacobs
Lenny Bruce: A Profile Linnea Eades
Lesbian Underground Sandra Golvin
Liberation Theology Charles Scurich
Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet Jim Odling
Martin Luther King, Jr. (various tapes) Susan Curtiss
Massacre: The Story of East Timor Ethan Callendar;
HMKRR;
Alan Young
Me & My Shadow The Bardo Corporation
Nicaraguan Struggle: A Poetry Special Gerard Gendron;
Megan Per-Lee
On Nuclear Morality James Ploss
On The Power of Peaceful Persuasion Ari Ana Hoover;
Brent Scott;
Laura Wong
Paul Robeson: World Citizen Daniel Benzali
Power of African-American Women Anahid Kassabian;
Matthew J. Wheeland
Rachel Carson: A Memorial Appreciation HMKRR
Singers of Allende: Chilean Folk Ginna & Molly Allison
Talk with Harry Bridges Jerry Budin
Tears of Rage Sandra Cruze
Trial of the San Quentin 6 Haskell Wexler
Trudell Direct from Alcatraz Sue Welsh
Un-American Committee Roundup Sherna & Marvin Gluck
Wicked Words for Wild Women Sandra Golvin