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FTV 194 Haiti

Posted in Uncategorized, Update on January 23rd, 2010

This week on From the Vault we present historical recordings on Haiti, where on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck that was centered very close to Port-au-Prince, the capitol city that now lies in ruins. Our first selection is from a recording of Jean-Bertrand Aristide from 1990, being interviewed just months before his election as President of Haiti. Then we feature a voodoo ceremony recorded with special permission by Pacifica producer Verna Gilles in 1975. Finally, KPFK host Margaret Prescod outlines the ousting of Aristide in 2004 on a special edition of the Sojourner Truth radio program.

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FTV 193 John Cage

Posted in Uncategorized, Update on January 15th, 2010

This week on From The Vault we profile one of the great innovative thinkers and visionary geniuses of the 20th Century…. and the man who helped create the field of modern music: John Cage.

We invited KPFK Los Angeles’ Global Village music host and admirer of John Cage’s life and work John Schneider to help us navigate through some of the remarkable Cage recordings contained in the Pacifica Radio Archives, including the only known recording of his “45 minutes for a Speaker” performance. Schneider also introduces The Pacifica Radio Archive’s recording of John Cage speaking about his collaborations with artists such as Robert Rauschenberg (recorded in 1965 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art), and John Cage and Morton Feldman from a 1966 conversation recorded on Pacifica Radio’s New York Station WBAI.

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FTV 192 Immigration and Labor Panel, 1982

Posted in Uncategorized, Update on January 8th, 2010

This week on From the Vault Pacifica Radio Archives is proud to present a historic panel discussion on comprehensive immigration reform legislation. In 1982, KPFA Producer Richard Gonzalez assembled three diverse panel members to discuss the historical, emotional and legal issues raised by immigration reform: Joaquin Avila, then-President and Lead Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund; Elizabeth Martinez, a Chicana feminist best known for work, “500 years of Chicano History in Pictures;” and Ignacio de la Fuente of the International Molders and Allied Workers Union, Local 164. The panel was moderated by Armando Valdez, the Director of the Center for Chicano Research at Stanford University.

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FTV 191 From the Vault on the BBC

Posted in Uncategorized, Update on January 1st, 2010

For over two years, the same material used in our weekly From the Vault has also been featured on the BBC Radio 5 Live Up All Night program, allowing us to share Pacifica Radio Archives’ rich and diverse history with a UK audience. With this international outreach, we have shared many global voices and highlighted the political temperature of the time, with artist, activists, politicians, and those who would be otherwise unheard. Our BBC audience has been treated to the musing of comics such as Richard Pryor following the Attica Prison rebellion, and the late George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words.” They’ve been exposed to an alternative view of the Democratic National Convention riots back in 1968, and to the people who hit the road taking part in the Poor People’s Campaign. They’ve heard, too, the authentic voices of Noam Chomsky, Audre Lorde, Studs Terkel, Les Paul, and Che Guevara to name a few. In this episode of From the Vault we look back on some of the programs produced for the BBC, featuring this amazing tapestry of audio held within the Pacifica Radio Archives.

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FTV 190 Julio’s Holiday Special: All is Calm

Posted in Uncategorized, Update on December 24th, 2009

This week on From The Vault, KPFK Arts In Review host Julio Martinez presents original productions of several holiday classics: O. Henry’s The Gift of The Magi, Dylan Thomas’s, A Child’s Christmas In Wales, Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus by newspaper editor Francis Church, and All is Calm: The Story of Silent Night.

These Christmas tales are produced by Julio Martinez and performed by the KPFK Arts In Review Repertory Players.

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FTV 186 Campus Campaign 2.0 Highlights, Part 2

Posted in Uncategorized, Update on November 26th, 2009

On November 16th and 17th, 2009, the Pacifica Radio Archives launched it’s “Campus Campaign 2.0″ national broadcast which presented a new edition of education materials from Pacifica Archives to a national audience. This week we continue with highlights from this special day, as Archives Senior Producer Mark Torres and Mark Maxwell, host of KPFK’s music program Rise, feature gems from the “Arts and Liturature” holdings of the Pacifica Radio Archives, and Uprising Radio host Sonali Kolhatkar presents selections from our “People’s History” collection.

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FTV 156 The Ballad of Pete Seeger, Part Two

Posted in Uncategorized, Update on May 1st, 2009

Pacifica Radio Archives is proud to present Part Two of The Ballad of Pete Seeger, an original radio documentary celebrating Pete’s life and times, featuring a candid conversation with Tim Robbins, historic audio from the Pacifica Radio Archives, and music. The Ballad of Pete Seeger is a folk perspective on the struggle for equality and justice in the labor, civil rights and peace movements in the 20th century. Part Two focuses on the Pete’s life from 1955 to the present.

Produced and Written by Mark Torres
Executive Produced by Brian DeShazor

Interviews include:
Norman Corwin live on KPFK 90.7 FM, 1968

Mario Cassetta live on KPFK, 1976

Tim Robbins and Pete Seeger, 2006

Live music recordings of Pete Seeger for Pacifica include:

If I Had a Hammer

Last Train to Nuremberg

Oh Had I A Golden Thread

John Henry

Pete singing Woody Guthrie’s Deportee and This Land Was Made For You And Me

Dinky Dai with Mario ‘Boots’ Cassetta

Viva La Quince Brigada with Tao Rodriguez Seeger

Special Thanks to Pete and Toshi Seeger
Jim Musselman of Appleseed Records
Tim Robbins
The staff at Havoc Films
Adi Gevins
Bonnie Simmons
Christopher Sprinkle
Curtis Metcalf
Tim Forrest
The Staff of the Pacifica Radio Archives

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FTV 155 The Ballad of Pete Seeger, Part One

Posted in Uncategorized, Update on April 24th, 2009

Pacifica Radio Archives is proud to present The Ballad of Pete Seeger, an original radio documentary celebrating Pete’s life and times, featuring a candid conversation with Tim Robbins, historic audio from the Pacifica Radio Archives, and music. The Ballad of Pete Seeger is a folk perspective on the struggle for equality and justice in the labor, civil rights and peace movements in the 20th century. Part One focuses on the Pete’s life from 1938 to 1955.

Produced and Written by Mark Torres
Executive Produced by Brian DeShazor

Interviews include:
Norman Corwin live on KPFK 90.7 FM, 1968

Mario Cassetta live on KPFK, 1976

Tim Robbins and Pete Seeger, 2006

Live music recordings of Pete Seeger for Pacifica include:

If I Had a Hammer

Last Train to Nuremberg

Oh Had I A Golden Thread

John Henry

Pete singing Woody Guthrie’s Deportee and This Land Was Made For You And Me

Dinky Dai with Mario ‘Boots’ Cassetta

Viva La Quince Brigada with Tao Rodriguez Seeger

Special Thanks to Pete and Toshi Seeger
Jim Musselman of Appleseed Records
Tim Robbins
The staff at Havoc Films
Adi Gevins
Bonnie Simmons
Christopher Sprinkle
Curtis Metcalf
Tim Forrest
The Staff of the Pacifica Radio Archives

From the Vault is presented as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project.

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FTV 136 The Campus Campaign & Mumford High School

Posted in Uncategorized, Update on December 12th, 2008

In this episode of From the Vault, BBC collaborator Joanne Griffith visits Mumford High School in Detroit, Michigan, to help launch our Campus Campaign initiative, a new project designed to bring Pacifica Radio Archives’ historic recordings out of the vault and into the classroom. Mumford High School students, working with Joanne, create an original interpretation of these recordings using music of their choosing. The result is a surprising tapestry of emotions arising from students hearing these voices for the first time. Special guest include Mumford High School Principal Linda Spight, Mumford High School Social Studies teacher Tiffany Cox, Pacifica Radio Archives Director Brian DeShazor and students from Mumford High School. This special From the Vault owes its creation to songwriter, artist, and multimedia artist Allee Willis (www.alleewillis.com), Mumford High School graduate, and dear friend of Pacifica Radio Archives.

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FTV 086 Sound of Soul

Posted in Uncategorized, Update on December 28th, 2007

In this episode of From the Vault, Pacifica Radio Archives focuses on the Sound of Soul preservation project by featuring excerpts of Sounds That Change the World, a special national broadcast from November 2007. Hosted by Allee Willis and Brian DeShazor, with special guest Georgia Wise, we’ll listen to freshly preserved recordings that were adopted by Pacifica Radio Archives’ supporters at the February 2007 Sound of Soul Party, recordings that were in danger of being lost forever to tape disintegration. Featured this week are the voices of Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Carmen McRae, Angela Davis, and James Baldwin, among others.

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Listen to a broadcast of Allee Willis during Pacifica Radio Archives’ 2007 National Fund Drive.

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