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John Santos Continuity
Date: 7/25/1987Call Number: FI 207Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Leading musicologist and percussionist John Santos speaks about music of Cuba and the Caribbean. Music was played live between each discussion by Santos and is not on the recording.
Inventos: Hip Hop Cubano
Call Number: V 688Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This film documents contemporary Cuban hip hop. Cuban musicians are interviewed in their homes, on stage and on tour. Despite the US embargo, the film illustrates the creative and artistic spirit of the island.
Hagase la Luz (Let There Be Light)/ Desafio (Challenge)
Call Number: V 689Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This film contains two documentaries. One discusses the health field in Cuba, specifically Operacion Milagro. In the second film, the main focus is the political and economic changes in Cuba following the Fall of the Soviet Union and the US embargo.
Cuba: El sistema de Salud (The Cuban Health System)
Call Number: V 691Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This film is composed of three short documentaries. This series of documentaries explains the organization of the Cuban health care system as well as highlights the achievements of the Cuban health system, its' research and scientific results.
Cuba: Caminos de Revolucion (Cuba: Paths of the Revolution)- Una isla en la corriente
Call Number: V 706Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This documentary talks about the four major waves of Cuban immigration. From the Cuban exiles in 1959, the Cuban Adjustment act in 1965, to the Mariel Boat Lift in 1980, and finally the "balseros" of 1990. Spanish Only.
Fidel: La historia no contada (Fidel: The untold story)
Call Number: V 707Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This documentary presents the story of Fidel Castro through interviews from Castro, friends, historians, and through other archives of the Cuban Revolucion.
The Real Dragon
Date: 8/5/1972Call Number: CD 887Format: CDProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: The Real DragonCollection: Vietnam
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, then Vietnam news, including two limericks about Jane Fonda with actuality of Jane Fonda, in her interview with Asia Information Group, discusses the committee of solidarity. More Vietnam news, on successful offensives against US military, speech by War Secretary Laird disrupted, bomb at Air Force Academy officer’s club with communiqué signed by “the Americong.” Pentagon Papers trial delayed, South Vietnamese student political prisoners/tiger cages—student statement on mistreatment, beating, and torture of student activists, Union of Vietnamese sponsors a Vietnamese Cultural Night with film “The Victory of Dien Bien Phu,” Nguyen Thai Binh poem by LB—“my name it is Thai Binh and Thai Binh means peace,” —“my only bomb is my human heart...” with last verse sung…..Marin County courthouse, “the courthouse slave rebellion,” George Jackson actuality about Jonathan Jackson and the events of August 7, 1971, poem to Jonathan Jackson by Lincoln Bergman, detailed report on Ruchell Magee trial, denied the right to defend himself, H. Rap Brown, Presidential campaign news, Weather Underground bombing, Leslie Bacon case/wiretaps; quotes from Marilyn Monroe from a Ms. Magazine article, Palestine news, demonstrators in Japan against Vietnam war. Hiroshima, Nagasaki----children of the future—the Venceremitos (400 children from 28 countries) in Cuba.
Track 2: RD 066: Real Dragon (Oneness) (has Janice Mirikitani poems). Producers: Roland Young, Glen Howell Program: Real Dragon/Oneness. Part of the program Oneness on which The Real Dragon appeared. Begins with alphabet song sung by Tracy Young, followed by an interview with "Julie," a koto player and the koto accompanies poems by Janice Mirikitani, one on a shooting of a farmworker - "The Price of Peaches," then her well-known poem on Vietnam combined with Japanese concentration camps called “Attack the Water." (juxtaposition of 1947/1972). Closes with her poem to Nguyen Thai Binh, the Vietnamese martyr killed during attempted antiwar hijacking (he had two lemons wrapped in tin foil), "In Memory of Nguyen Thai Binh."
Maestra (Teacher)
Call Number: V 712Format: DVDProducers: The Literacy ProjectCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This film documents the 1961 National Campaign for Literacy in Cuba. Thousands of teenage girls traveled to remote mountain regions and lived with their students for up to one year, teaching at night and on weekends. Over 700,000 illiterate adults learned to read & write that year. Spanish with English subtitles.
Pablo Menendez Interview
Date: 7/25/1981Call Number: FI 233Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Tribute to Moncada Barracks in Cuba, featuring interview with Cuban/North American musician Pablo Menendez (son of Barbara Dane), also promoting an upcoming Berkeley event with noted singers and musicians to mark Moncada and express solidarity with El Salvador.Pablo speaks of the Nueva Trova, the new song movement in Cuba. One of the songs, by Barbara Dane and Pablo Menendez, is in memory of Cuban woman revolutionary Celia Sanchez, who had recently died of cancer.
Mario Bauza Tribute
Date: 7/24/1993Call Number: FI 249Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Memorial tribute, with comments and discussion by Mario Bauza, the great Cuban musician, trumpet player, band leader, close associate of Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Tito Puentr, many others. Major role in connecting Afro-Cuban music to modern jazz. Bauza died on July 11, 1993.
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