{"product_id":"listen-whitey-the-sounds-of-black-power-19651975-hc-9781606995075","title":"LISTEN  WHITEY!: The Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 HC","description":"\u003cp\u003eA provocative collection of African-American cultural history. Noted music producer and scholar Pat Thomas spent five years in Oakland  CA researching Listen  Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975. While befriending members of the Black Panther Party  Thomas discovered rare recordings of speeches  interviews  and music by noted activists Huey Newton  Bobby Seale  Eldridge Cleaver  Elaine Brown  The Lumpen and many others that form the framework of this definitive retrospective. Listen  Whitey! also chronicles the forgotten history of Motown Records.  From 1970 to 1973  Motowns Black Power subsidiary label  Black Forum  released politically charged albums by Stokely Carmichael  Amiri Baraka  Langston Hughes  Bill Cosby \u0026amp; Ossie Davis  and many others  all represented. Also explored are the musical connections between Bob Dylan  John Lennon  Graham Nash  the Partridge Family (!?!) and the Black Power movement. Obscure recordings produced by SNCC  Ron Karengas US  the Tribe and other African-American sociopolitical organizations of the late 1960s and early 70s are examined along with the Isley Brothers  Nina Simone  Archie Shepp  Art Ensemble of Chicago  Clifford Thornton  Watts Prophets  Last Poets  Gene McDaniels  Roland Kirk  Horace Silver  Angela Davis  H. Rap Brown  Stanley Crouch  and others that spoke out against oppression.  Other sections focus on Black Consciousness poetry (from the likes of Jayne Cortez  wife of Ornette Coleman)  inspired religious recordings that infused god and Black Nationalism  obscure regional and privately pressed Black Power 7-inch soul singles from across America. 90 000 words of text are accompanied by over 250 large sized  full-color reproductions of album covers and 45 rpm singles  most of which readers will have never seen before. 224 black-and-white illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665936375861,"sku":"ByrdShop_1606995073","price":35.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781606995075.jpg?v=1782414751","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/listen-whitey-the-sounds-of-black-power-19651975-hc-9781606995075","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}