Amiri Baraka "Somebody Blew Up America"
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- Опубликовано: 15 дек 2009
- "Somebody Blew Up America" by Amiri Baraka with Rob Brown-saxophone, recorded live on February 21, 2009 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY.
The poet icon and political activist Amiri Baraka performs with Rob Brown, an eloquent and versatile saxophonist with a deep knowledge of jazz, in a reading from his book "Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems.
This production is part of "Free Jazz at the Sanctuary," a 13-part series of performance videos featuring some of the world's most talented improvisers.
The complete series consists of performances by:
The Thirteenth Assembly (Taylor Ho Bynum, Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone)
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble (Kahil El'Zabar, Ernest Dawkins, Corey Wilkes)
From Between Trio (Michel Doneda, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jack Wright)
Michael Vlatkovich Quartet (Christopher Garcia, Jonathan Golove, David Mott, Michael Vlatkovich)
Sax Soup Poetry and Voice (Joe Giardullo, Pierre Joris, Nicole Peyrafitte)
Trio Tarana (Sam Bardfeld, Ravish Momin, Brian Prunka)
The Ras Ensemble (Clif Jackson, Dave Miller, Ras Moshe, Tor Yochai Snyder)
William Hooker
Empty Cage Quartet (Ivan Johnson, Paul Kikuchi, Jason Mears, Kris Tiner)
Weasel Walter Trio (Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson, Weasel Walter)
Splatto Festival Chorus (Dave Barrett, Michael Bisio, Ed Mann, Todd Reynolds)
Amiri Baraka and Rob Brown
Fay Victor Ensemble (Ken Filiano, Anders Nilsson, Michael TA Thompson, Fay Victor)
"Free Jazz from the Sanctuary" is a co-production of NY Media Alliance and the Arts Department at Rensselaer, made possible in part with support from the NYS Council on the Arts and the NYS Music Fund, established by the NYS Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers. 
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What's brilliant about this piece is that, it sounds as if Baraka is asking a question…when really he's explaining the answer.
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GENIUS!!!
It's stunning... Who? Who? Who?
The white capitalist comes to mind
@@jamesjohnson2394 satan he uses who he does(listen closely) repent and believe on Jest he died buried and resurrected for you so you might be saved if you believe on him
A miraculous flow of imperialistic truths and a defiance to our collective colonial masters. A masterpiece!!! Couldn’t be more relevant today. Bravo
i met amiri in 1991 when i was a student at lsu..i had only been writing poetry for a couple of years and i had wrote a poem about the first iraq war and got it published in the school newspaper. the day it came out amiri gave a poetry reading at my schoo, which a workshop followed. he told me he saw my poem and liked it. the main reason why i became a poet was this man. and i'm still writing after 23 years
"Who owns what ain't known to be own" That's one of the deepest funniest lines in this poem , but very true indeed .
R.I.P. AMIRI BARAKA YOUR POETRY AND POWERFUL WORDS WILL LIVE FOREVER IN MY HEART.
I needed your words again today. Rest in peace brother. We carry on in this war, knowing WHO the devil is and not quite fighting back yet but getting close. The pot will boil over. The devil will have his day.
This is a wonderful poem. The poet looks behind the curtain and reports back on what he has seen. It is called in biblical terms, a vision.
People always have had visions
7. 2023 Supreme Court said affirmative action got to go. Prophetic 😢
R.I.P the greatest of the original beatnik poets, he was outspoken and never compromised...a true revolutionary poet
this KING! gone, but never ever forgotten! AMIRI BARAKA
One of the best poems of our time.
this is more pertinent now more than ever it seems. rest in peace Amiri Baraka
Just because you opened your eyes doesn't mean what you see is new.
Yup
tito, right. this ain't schrodinger's gato. we know what it is.
Yup
HE WAS A GREAT BROTHER. CONCIOUS EDUCATED . A EXTREMELY TALENTED BLACK RENAISSANCE POET . HE STOOD UP FOR OUR POC. RESPECT TO THE KING OF NJ !
Hope some of your friends and family are woke to the truth spoken here. I'm from philly btw. Some people don't want to hear it unfortunately
I'm so glad he came to my college and I got to meet him when I was 18, I wish I still had the book he gave me, but I don't think I understood his impact back then.
I know that is a moment you will never forget.
Jolly Rotten JR you are wasting your time wishing. Follow him become a poet. write your own book and slay them with rhythmic wisdom. Become Amiri Baraka. Our brother lives. Forever!
Rest in power!!!..Indeed !!!..Woke me....Showed me!!..Sad!! Heavy, like getting hurt!!..
I remember the words of brother Marley: "How long shall they kill our prophets while we stand across and look?"
Preach Sir Amiri!! Thank goodness he left us with such a prolific and profound category of TRUTH!!
Respect from Algeria, your works will always be in my mind
I'LL NEVER FORGET BARAKA!!!!!! MAY HE REST IN PEACE!!!!!!!!
May he rest in TRUTH and LOVE along w/ all the other ancestors. Peace Baraka, peace.
I met and shook his hand at the Geraldine Dodge Festival in 2010. His reading of this poem there is still etched in my memory.
I can't believe he got in trouble for this. It's just poetry.... his perspective on the world. It's art. It's beautiful.
I guess it goes beyond poetry. it is not just poetry. it is the truth apparently.
*ucking conspiracy theory -there's why. How about black cops murdering black guys? How about African chiefs hunting out their won to sell them off to white slavers? Not so simple.
Amiri (Imamu) Baraka you're an inspiration like no other. You will live on in our minds, spirits, and hearts...an eternity!
we had to listen to this poem in school..this is the strongest poem I have ever heard.
A huge loss to us all! What a great man and poet! Peace!
Rest in Power Amiri Baraka
You will be missed my brother, you will never be too far! Thank you so much for being you!~~
I pray that the next generation will pick up where this visionary of a man left off. Thank you for loving Jerz. #Baraka
One can only hope if we put down the remote & turn off Love & Hip Hop..one could only hope.
A great speech from a great man. RIP Amiri
I grew up in Newark and remember live sessions like this on the radio.
Thank you, folks at the Sanctuary, for doing such a fine job of recording this historic poet and poem. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speak!!!!!!!! Preach!!!!
OMG this made me just sit and wonder.....
RIP
To an American cultural heavyweight and true African warrior that spit on black liberal political correctness.You will be missed,brotha.
The struggle continues...
ONE of the Brightest, greatest talents of MY GENERATION, & BEHOND.....PS SIP in the AFTERLIFE....
timeless poems you wish wouldn't be timeless...
forever onwards, brave soul, a true fighter against opression
Wise words spoken by a wise man.
I was just listening to this in my writing thru literature class at Laguardia CC
9-11-2022!!! You will not forget and neither shall we!
God bless this truth!!!!
+Jason Sellers yesssss
Baba Amiri Baraka my all time favourite poet and totally politically self-conscious.
Baba Baraka is my inspier and hero.
Ase Baba Amiri Baraka and the Scottsboro Nine.
A powerful poem eloquently rendered by an elegant man, accompanied by an accomplished saxophonist!
Man Who Who who long live New Afrikan Imamu Amiri Baraka Dammm it !!! Struggle Forward!!!
ASE', ASE', ASE'!!!
He was a great poet.
Loved this man! Just heard about this poem and I'm so glad for RUclips giving me the opportunity to witness Baraka performing it. What an artistic, political powerhouse...May he rest in peace.
in the end if you did not clap, you did not understand and wow the poet
Wow, what force of words rattle the rafters with this string of pearls. He summarized the essence of the sickness in nine and a half minutes.
Rest in Paradise teacher poet ...
Master Poet... Enjoy Heaven; thank you for your poetic messages of truth (Rise to Peace)
Burn it down, Brother Amiri. ✊🏼
A Legend, A Poet, A Advocate who will be missed. RIP!
WOW POWERFUL! THANKS!
the greatest poet alive.
Long Live Amiri Baraka!
this guy is on point. reactionary accusations that are propelled by guilt are only reveal the authors fear.
I know that Amiri is not talking about me. Until my white brother and sister cop to our collective responsibility and can hear and tell the truth you will rage and shiver with guilt and self recrimination..
I salute you sir
spot on.
Right on my white brother. Now we call you brother.
Fake
I live in a country which was once a British colony, and although you have a point it still stands that the white man put down the black man(oversimplification), America is the only country in human history to ever use nuclear weapons on a country.....talk about diplomacy? isis also one of america's problem how many countless people killed because of this so called "holy war"? mass graves in my country "gukurahunde" its also shocking that black on black crimes are higher than white on black to me this is somewhat odd, i then get back to one of your points "Why should only whites cop to these" no matter how we want to look at it, the white man really messed up especially slavery but then again in africa before the white man came the arabs were already taking black people as slaves....will it ever end?. i take it you are a neutral which is good, yes white people have played a great role in stamping out slavery..but they also committed great crimes NOW my question is WHY SLAVERY IN THE FIRST PLACE?but at the end of the day i believe that as the human race we must advance as one collective mind i believe thats the only way to progress forward...
One of the Highlights of my residence in Downtown L.A. in the 70's was having Brother Amiri come to my Studio opening and Read. That night Ojenke, Kamau, and K.Curtis Lyle read blowing up the Space, it was one for the ages.
My dear Brother Amiri Baraka,
You will be missed on this Earth. Thanks for everything you did to elevate Humankind, for speaking the truth.
Thanks.
Rest in Peace.
one of my favorite poems...my inspiration.
The truth & riffing on Monk. Perfect...
This is amazing!!
So powerful... thank you for this timeless material.
POWERFUL!
His poetry will live forever, this is such a beautiful piece of wonder! :) I love the sax with it! :)
Wow! Powerful. It stirred something in me.
Beyond Brilliant!
Rest Easy Brother!
Thank you, ancestor Amiri.
Genius...
The ancestors are now rejoicing...thank you my brother.
Powerful. Profound. Brutally blunt...
Awesome!
beautiful - i'm just learning about Amiri now - what a gift it must have been to be present when he spoke rip
Thank you for sharing your heart, your powerful poetic gift & your uncompromising courage RIP Amiri Baraka
Amazing...Rest in Power
man ive been a fan half my life and im a hispanic man in his 30s..
DAMN! that was intense.
Here on the day Dick Gregory died. Seems only fitting. RIP gentlemen! The world is in dire need of your voice and courage.
Every time I watch this I pick up on something new
POWERFUL.
God bless him!
absolute legend
Rest in POWER. .!!!Excellent!
This guy's one of very few who actually KNOWS who did all this :) Love love love him!
The goatttt
This golden word will always be in our spirit everyday This man was more than Great Great Amiri look over us we will continue to listen and Hear more thank you
Great man
i love amirri baracka great man i love this man truth is truth love it
Thank you sir. =)
Yesterday was the April 24th, 105 years ago that day started the Armenian Genocide...
Thank you for mentioning one of the truths behind the "ARMENIAN GENOCIDE". With Love to you, Amiri, thanks for the truth you tell about this messed up Earth..
This is a master piece. Magnificent!
brilliant soul.
wow dude.. Just wow.
Amazing
Who will take over where this man left off? RIP Amiri Baraka.
Brotha be well on your peaceful journey....you were and forever will be warm inspiration
Rest in Peace. I was honored to help celebrate your 75th birthday in San Francisco.
Rest in POWER sire. We salute you!
True poet " who got the money, who think you funny" I love that. ✌🏿
brilliant
God Bless your fine soul, my Brother
My goose bumps always tell me when I hear the truth......
I often read his poems on anthologies of: beat generation (wtf?) and New York poets (and he was from NJ)... but thanks to beats and NewYorkers for made me know this great author. Gonna start soon a book of short stories ordered by Canada