Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

The African-American audio experience

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The African-American audio experience

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A collection of African-American poems, prose and theater performance

Disc 1. Caedmon presents The African-American Audio Experience -- "The storyteller's silence" / Nikki Giovanni -- Black Boy / Richard Wright (Brock Peters) -- One cold morning -- My mother fell ill -- At last we were at the railroad station -- My mother became too ill to work -- At the age of twelveDisc 2. As summer neared -- I grew silent and reserved -- My life now depended upon -- I stared bleakly into the morning sun -- I knew what was wrong with meDisc 3. A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry (Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis with full cast) -- Mornin' Bennie -- Oooo-whooeee! -- Hello -- Beneatha, well what have we got on tonight?Disc 4. Will you be quiet -- Oh Lord I don't feel noways tired -- Well, is this all the packin's got done -- I came over -- Yes. Yes. Just look at what the new world hath wrought -- That's not a man. That's nothing but a toothless ratDisc 5. "In the spirit of Martin" / Nikki Giovanni -- "Rosa Parks" -- "A robin's nest in snow" -- "And yeah ... this ia a love poem" -- Commentary on Tupac Shakur -- "All eyez on U" (For Tupac Shakur) -- "The song of the feet" -- "Shoulders are for emergencies only" -- Selections from the "Tall Tales" chapter of "Every tongue got to confess" / Zora Neale Hurston (Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis) -- Selections from "Langston Hughes reads": "One way ticket" -- When I was thirteen years old --"The Negro speaks of rivers" -- I went to Columbia University -- "Puzzled" -- I eventually found work on the boats -- "The trumpet player" -- I sort of went backwards -- "Ballad of the gypsy" -- "We real cool" ; "Malcom X" ; "The sermon on the warpland" / Gwendolyn Brooks