Pat Thomas Travels Over Land and Sea With
Listen Whitey!: The Sights and Sounds of Black Power
March 16, 2012 – Seattle, WA. Fantagraphics Books and Light in the Attic Records are excited to announce that author, lecturer, and music-man Pat Thomas is hitting the road with Listen Whitey!: The Sights and Sounds of Black Power. Meet the mofo behind the book that pays tribute to the Black Power Movement of the ’60s-’70s. Heading up the West Coast and then across the pond to England, Thomas will be giving talks, signing books, and playing tracks at both bookstores and record shops.
While researching this book project in Oakland, Thomas discovered rare recordings of speeches, interviews, and music by noted activists Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Elaine Brown, and others that form the framework of this definitive retrospective. Listen, Whitey! chronicles the forgotten history of Motown Records’ Black Power subsidiary label, Black Forum, which released politically charged albums by Stokely Carmichael, Langston Hughes, Bill Cosby, and Ossie Davis, among others. Obscure records produced by African-American sociopolitical organizations of the period are examined, along with the Isley Brothers, Nina Simone, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Watts Prophets, Roland Kirk, Horace Silver, Angela Davis, H. Rap Brown, Stanley Crouch, and many more. Thomas will give a slide and music presentation, and then sign copies of Listen, Whitey! and the companion CD of the same title from Seattle-based Light in the Attic Records. The album features rare tracks from African-American activists like Dick Gregory, Eldridge Cleaver, and the Last Poets, with protest music by Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Harper, and more.
Listen, Whitey! features nearly 200 pages of text 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. The book creates a cultural context for the iconic images and the accompanying album.
LISTEN, WHITEY!: THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF BLACK POWER
By Pat Thomas
$39.99 USA
ISBN 978-1-60699-507-5
Published by Fantagraphics Books
Event listing information:
Monday, April 2, 12-1PM University of Southern California Ronald Tutor Campus Center Geoffrey Cowan Forum, Room 207 Annenberg School across from Heritage Hall. 3607 Trousdale Pkwy LOS ANGELES, CA 90089 213.821.3015 Wednesday, April 4, 7pm Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd. W. HOLLYWOOD, CA 90069 310.659.3110 Thursday, April 5, 7-8PM AMOEBA Records, LA 6400 Sunset Blvd. LOS ANGELES, CA 90028 323.245.6400 Saturday, April 7, TBA Warbler Records & Goods 131 E De La Guerra St SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101 805.845.5862 Tuesday, April 10, 7:30PM The Booksmith 1644 Haight St. SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117 415.863.8688 Wednesday, April 11, 7:30 pm Pegasus Books 2349 Shattuck Ave. BERKELEY, CA 94704 510.649.1320 | Sunday, April 22, 7:30 PM Powell’s City of Books 1005 W Burnside PORTLAND, OR 97209 503.228.4651 Wednesday, May 9, TBA University of Southampton University Road, SOUTHAMPTON SO17 1BJ +44 (0)23.8059.5000 Thursday, May 10, TBA SPONSORED AND PRESENTED BY THE WIRE MAGAZINE Cafe OTO 18 - 22 Ashwin St. Dalston, LONDON E8 3DL Friday, May 11, TBA Rough Trade East “Dray Walk” Old Truman Brewery 91 Brick Lane, LONDON E1 6QL +44 (0)207.392.7788 Tuesday, May 15, TBA Durham University Lecture Room of the Music Department The University Office Old Elvet, DURHAM DH1 3HP +44 (0)191.334.6305 |
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