Amiri Baraka Black & Beautiful Soul & Madness cd

$14.00

cd
2010/1968
new
Baraka reads enraged kill-whitey poems over a 5 person choir who vamp doo wop. Sometimes they sing parts from Miracles' records (like the 65' hit 'Ooo Baby Baby'), sometimes they morph into an imitation of a Baptist congregation, shrieking in the background & losing their shit every time Baraka calls someone a 'skinny bitch' or 'pig nostril'. There's a few moments of free jazz sax & vocal imitations of animals thrown in too. Baraka's resentment is profligate and merciless, easily bulldozing the 42 intervening years. Best moment is when he sarcastically asks: 'Do you want to go to Lincoln Center?!?' Tracklisting: Beautiful Black Women, Black and Beautiful, Form is Emptiness, Mishap, Madness, Nineteen Sixty Something, Sacred Chant, Unity, Fight.
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