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Informationen zum Autor Pat Thomas is the author of Listen, Whitey! The Sights & Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975, Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary, and co-editor of Invitation to Openness: The Jazz & Soul Photography of Les McCann 1960-1980. In co-operation with the Estate of Allen Ginsberg, Thomas edited the visual tome Material Wealth: The Personal Archives of Allen Ginsberg, with a forward by poet Anne Waldman, which won a PEN award in 2024. Thomas was the co-editor of Ernie in Kovacsland: Drawings, and Photographs from Television's Original Genius and Grievous Angels, Trout Masks, and American Beauties: 1970s Rock & Roll Photography of Ginny Winn with an introduction by Maria Muldaur. He lives on America's left coast. Klappentext A provocative collection of African-American cultural history. Zusammenfassung In Listen! Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 author Pat Thomas examines rare recordings of speeches! interviews! and music from the Black Power Party! by noted activists Huey Newton! Bobby Seale! Eldridge Cleaver! Elaine Brown! The Lumpen and many others. He also chronicles the forgotten history of Motown Records: from 1970 to 1973! Motown's Black Power subsidiary label! Black Forum! released politically charged albums by Stokely Carmichael! Amiri Baraka! Langston Hughes! Bill Cosby & Ossie Davis! and many others. Listen! Whitey! also spotlights obscure recordings produced by SNCC! Ron Karenga's US! the Tribe and other African-American sociopolitical organizations of the late 1960s and early '70s! Black Consciousness poetry! and inspired religious recordings that infused god and Black Nationalism.
