amiribaraka.com  publications available

UPDATED 9 SEPTEMBER 2004

also in stock ($10 each unless noted):

BUSHWACKED! A COUNTERFEIT PRESIDENT FOR A FAKE DEMOCRACY (Essays on the 2000 Presidential Election)

ALLAH MEAN EVERYTHING! Thus Spake Amiri Baraka (Poetry)

5 Bop Trees   (Poetry by Amina & Amiri Baraka)

When Miles Split  (The Eulogy)

The Black Arts Movement

Preface To A Twenty Volume Suicide Note (8th / 9th Ed  1st printing) $50

Better Red Let Others Be Dead  (45rpm) AB &‘The Advanced Workers” band … Red -Funk in the 70’s; $12
 
 

ordering information
 

print-on-demand:
 

BOOKLETS:

Paul Robeson & the Theater (Historic Analysis of His Life & Work; $10)

Sassy!  (tribute to Sarah Vaughan; $10)

Urban Culture & The New Politics of Cooperation (Art & Renewal; $10)
 
 

UNCOLLECTED &/OR UNPUBLISHED PHOTOCOPIED  ESSAYS  W/ COVER  ($5 unless noted):
 
Papers presented at National Black Arts Conference, Atlanta   ‘94
 
James Baldwin & The Blood of The Lamb

The Language Of Defiance   (Afro-American Speech)
 
Larry Neal
 
Du Bois, Langston & McKay
 
Toni Morrison & The Theater
 
Zora!
 
Sweet Lorraine (Hansberry, & Baldwin)
 
Duke Ellington: The “Great Spirit” of The Music
 
The Case for Reparations & What The Afro-American People Must Have!
 
The Hidden Legacy of Urban Culture (“Lost Jazz Shrines”)
 
The Million Man March: An Analysis (106 ms pp) $10
 
The Life Of Willie “The Lion” Smith  $7
 
Dr. King & The Mountain    $7
 

THE MUSIC / FUGITIVE & UNPUBLISHED PAPERS ($5):
 
Eulogy for Fred Hopkins
 
Meditation On The Ancient World: Word Music

Libretto for Joe Chambers "NOMMO"
 
Rhythm & Rime
 
Rhythm
 
The Influence of Newark on The Music
 
The Coast

 
UNCOLLECTED WORKS IN FOLDER  ($20 ea.):
 
The Book of Monk  (Poetry & Prints)
 
The Book of Miles   (Poetry, Essays, Prints)
 
The Book of Ra        (Poetry, Essays, Short Story, Prints)
 
The Book of Duke    (Poetry, Essays, Script)
 
The Book of Trane   (Poetry, Essays, Print)
 
Ark Music   (Collected published, fugitive & unpublished papers on Newark Musicians, includes, Woody Shaw, Wayne Shorter, Alan Shorter, Willie “The Lion” Smith, Art Williams, Larry Young, Jr, The Phipps Family, The Beys, Grachan Moncur III, Walter Davis, James Moody, Jimmy Anderson, Eddie Crawford, Eddie Gladden)

 
Unpublished Scripts of Word Music Drama ($20 ea.):
 
Funk Lore: Black History Music
 
Happy 100th Birthday Duke

Homage to Black Revolutionaries
 

DRAMA
 
Produced and Unproduced Plays in Photocopied typescript ($10):
 
What Was The Relationship of The Lone Ranger To The Means of Production ('80)   NuYorican Poets Theater
 
Boy & Tarzan Meet In A Clearing  (‘82) New Federal Theater
 
Vomit & The Jungle Bunnies (‘82)
 
Weimar 2  (’83)   The Kitchen
 
Guerilla Massacre (‘84)
 
Song (’85)  The Bridge Club

Meeting Lillie (‘90) NuYorican Poets Theater
 
General Hag’s Skeezag (‘91) NuYorican Poets Theater
 
Jack Pot Melting (’95)  NuYorican Poets Theater
 
The Election Machine Warehouse (’96) NuYorican Poets Theater
 
Skin Trouble (’99)
 

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, SCULPTURE & REPRODUCTIONS
 
Amiri & Amina Baraka are also visual artists. Mr. Baraka had a show of his drawings at the Aljira Gallery in Newark in 1998.  He had extensive drawings in the Black Arts Show, Puck Building, NYC 2001 and in the Hanks Gallery, Los Angeles, 2001.  Amina Baraka is a unique and striking sculptor.
 

Samples of original work available for sale
 
 

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Also Available:
 

Newark Music Project:

Blue Ark: The Word Ship & The New Arkestra
 

RESEARCHING, ARCHIVING, RESTORING, BUILDING INSTITUTIONS,  PRESENTING TRAVELING STAGE: WORD-MUSIC DRAMA

 
Present Repertory (for your stage…terms on request):
 
“Funk Lore”: Black History Music (Afro–American “Talking Drum”)
 
“Music On My Mind”: The Life of Willie “the Lion” Smith
 
“Happy 100th Birthday Duke!"  Tribute to Duke Ellington
 
“Remembering WeSelves: Black Renaissance in Harlem”
 
“Dr. King & The Mountain”: A Living Newspaper
 
“Great Blue Ladies of the Music: Bessie, Ethel, Billie, Ella, Sassy, Abbey”

In Preparation:  Works on Wayne Shorter, Woody Shaw, Babs Gonzales, Larry Young, Motown Redug
 
 

AUDIO & VIDEO TAPES
 
An extensive listing will be available here soon, including Live Performances by diverse artists at KIMAKO'S BLUES PEOPLE and Word Music Presentations with Amina & Amiri Baraka & Blue Ark.
 
Video

Amiri Baraka speaking on

“Afro-American Self Determination” (Rutgers University ’96) $20
 
“Martin Luther King & Malcolm X”  (Jersey City ‘95) $20
 
“Poetry Reading @ San Diego Museum (’96) $20
 

CD (currently unavailable at this site)

Fo Deuk Revue, w/ David Murray  (Justin Time, ‘97)
 
Afternoon In Harlem,  w/ Hugh Ragin  (Justin Time ‘99)
 
New York Art Quintet, w/ Reggie Workman, Milford Graves, Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai (Soundscape Jan ’00)
 
Real Song  w/ Amina Baraka & Blue Ark: The Word Ship (Enja, ‘95)
 

 
SPEAKING & READING

For Booking Information, Call Joe White, 973-622-8223
 
 

Amiri Baraka:  New Books (currently unavailable at this site)

 
SIX PERSONS: Collected Fiction (Includes “Tales”, “System Of Dante’s Hell”, Fugitive Short Stories from 70’s and 80’s and Unpublished Novel (‘ca 68-69) “ Six Persons”  Chicago Review Press)
 
DIGGING: THE AFRO-AMERICAN SOUL OF AMERICAN CLASSICAL MUSIC (80’s & 90’s  Writings on The Music, Marsilio Publishers, New York)
 

Still in Print
 
Dutchman & The Slave  (Wm. Morrow, NY)
 
Blues People  (Wm. Morrow; New Editions, Mar  ‘99; Scottish ‘98; Italian ’99)
 
The Amiri Baraka Reader  (New Edition, winter, ‘99, Thunders Mouth, NY)
 
Home: Social Essays   (New Edition,  ’98)
 
Black Music   (New Editions, German; U.S., Da Capo  ‘98)