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LeRoi Jones on Black Writers: Tell It Like It Is - Part 1
Date: 9/20/1964Call Number: CE 127Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
History of Negro writers and how they had to emerge from "below the veil of anxious politeness" that was set in place by monied white audiences to reveal the true "Black experience" in America. Includes references to most influential Black artists - from jazz musicians to writers. LeRoi Jones reads from article "LeRoi Jones Speaking."
LeRoi Jones on Black Writers: Tell It Like It Is - Part 2
Date: 9/20/1964Call Number: CE 128Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
History of Black writers and how they had to emerge from "below the veil of anxious politeness" that was set in place by monied white audiences to reveal the true "Black experience" in America. Includes references to most influential Negro artists - from jazz musicians to writers. LeRoi Jones reads from article "LeRoi Jones Speaking."
LeRoi Jones on Black Writers: Tell It Like It Is - Part 3
Date: 9/20/1964Call Number: CE 129Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
History of Black writers and how they had to emerge from "below the veil of anxious politeness" that was set in place by monied white audiences to reveal the true "Black experience" in America. Includes references to most influential Negro artists - from jazz musicians to writers. LeRoi Jones reads from article "LeRoi Jones Speaking."
LeRoi Jones Reading of Poems
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 130Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
LeRoi Jones reading poems from his book "The Dead Lecturer". Includes mention of the influence Allen Ginsberg had on Jones' work.
LeRoi Jones on Philistinism - Lecture
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 131Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
On disrespect of non-material values (like art and spirituality) and how Black artists reject philistinism when expressing the experience of Blacks in America. Includes reading from Jones' book "The Dead Lecturer."
LeRoi Jones on Philistinism - Open Discussion
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 132Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion after lecture on philistinism. Topics range from US imperialism and material values taking over the world, the role of religion after the Middle Ages, and the role that Black artists can play in building unity.
Kenneth Rexroth, Saunders Redding, Harvey Swados, and LeRoi Jones
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 133Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About tensions and poor communication between different generations of Black writers, how disadvantaged subcultures (like Blacks) have trouble expressing themselves to conventional white audiences.
LeRoi Jones - Negro Politics
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 143AFormat: 7 1/2 ips Side AProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About 1964 Presidential Election (Goldwater v. Johnson), the failure of whites to integrate Blacks during Reconstruction, where that put Blacks. Also comments on Martin Luther King preventing real social reorganization (references MLK's response to the bombing of 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham).
Horace Cayton - Identity of a Negro in the US
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 143BFormat: 7 1/2 ips Side BProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Historical factors, like slavery, exclusion from white society, and industrialization, that shape the "demoralized" sense of self and social status as a Black in the US. How contemporary Black art recognizes that struggle and hardship enables a new understanding of Blacks in the US.
Saunders Redding - History of Negro Writing
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 144AFormat: 7 1/2 ips Side AProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About a new literary approach to Blacks in US history. Richard Wright's writings give rise to historians like Van Woodward, John Hope Franklin, Kenneth Stampp who now include Blacks in popular history. Covers history of Negro writers conferences (Paris 1957, Rome 1959) and how Blacks are establishing themselves within the mainstream literature of the US. Includes references to Black writing during the Harlem Renaissance.
