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Archive for February, 2010

black history month

by slappy on February 21st, 2010

dear friends,

in honor of Black History Month it’s our pleasure to present this week recordings of African-American spoken word artists and other speakers from practically the beginning of recorded sound all the way up to the present day.

some of the voices on this show belong to: June Jordan, Shafiq, W.E.B. DuBois, Claude McKay, Lucille Clifton, Gil Scott-Heron, Rita Dove, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou, Saul Williams, Carl Hancock Rux, and Ntozake Shange.  interspersed with their work you will find oral history recordings taken in Chicago in the early 1980s by Studs Terkel, as he prepared his epic work of ethnography and history on the subject of race in America.  enJoy,

slappy

slappycast – Black History Month

packing it in with the glamping trip

by slappy on February 7th, 2010

dear friends,

a couple of weeks back it was a true pleasure to have on the program austin improv SUPERGROUP the glamping trip, featuring David Lee Hess, Curtis Luciani, and John Ratliffe.  the show was a surreal drifting between interview and invention; special guests included Bill Cosby and Jimmy Carter.  hope it’s as much fun to listen to as it was to witness.  catch the magic here:

The Glamping Trip

enJoy,

slappy