Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1967-1974
2012 · Light in the Attic LITA 081 · USA
- Artist
- Various Artists
- Title
- Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1967-1974
- Release
- Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1967-1974
- Year
- 2012
- Label
- Light in the Attic # LITA 081
- Format
- CD · Compilation
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Various
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Vietnam War Compilations
Important historical compilation about Civil Rights-related music, produced by Pat Thomas, born 7 April 1965 in Corning, New York, USA, and currently based in Oakland, California, USA. The compilation accompanied a book of the same name, and included the song Free Bobby Now by The Lumpen. Released on Light in the Attic Records (# LITA 081). Also see: Vietnam War: 1968 Chicago Seven / Eight Songs. The blurb said: "Over a five year period in Oakland, CA – archivist Pat Thomas befriended key leaders of the seminal Black Power Movement, dug through Huey Newton’s archives at Stanford University, spent countless hours and thousands of dollars on eBay, and talked to rank and file Black Panther Party members, uncovering dozens of obscure albums, singles, and stray tapes. Along the way, he began to piece together a time period (1967-1974) when revolutionaries were seen as pop culture icons: Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael – and musicians were seen as revolutionaries; Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Bob Dylan, John Lennon and others."
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Light in the Attic LITA 081, CD (also 2xLP), USA, 2012; 16 songs, poems and speeches from the Black Power era, 1967-74, companion to Pat Thomas's book of the same name, with Stokely Carmichael, Elaine Brown, Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Amiri Baraka, The Lumpen, Bob Dylan and John Lennon & Yoko Ono. Produced and compiled by Pat Thomas. Entered as one release. [From Discogs]
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