We recently segmented this very exciting 1985 recording of husband and wife duo Amiri and Amina Baraka reading at the Allentown Community Center in Buffalo, NY.
Recorded on June 14th of that year, the event began with a twenty-five minute set by Amina, who read "Soweto Song," "I Wanna Make Freedom," "Oh Say Can You See," "Dirge for the Lynched," and "For the Lady in Color," among other titles. Amiri then took the state for a forty-five minute set that draws largely from his 1995 collection, Wise, Why's, Y's, including "Wise" parts 1–10, "1929: Y you ask?," "Ya Gotta Have Freedom," "Reflections (for Thelonious Monk)," and "How to Beat Reagan," among many other titles.
These two sets, consisting of thirty-two segmented tracks in total, can be found here. As we mentioned last week, when highlighting Baraka's 2005 recording of "Funk Lore," our Amiri Baraka author page, is home to a broad array of recordings going as far back as 1964.
