Box 4
Contains 28 Results:
Poetry reading, Berkeley Language Laboratory. June Jordan. February 1986.
Jordan begins her reading with an essay about Black poetry, and reads her own poems.
Songs from Bang Bang Uber Alles. July 23, 1986.
Recorded at the Seven Stages Theater in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jordan, June. June Jordan reads "Things That I Do in the Dark" and Other Poems. 1986.
Series II, SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, POETRY READINGS, AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES/REHEARSALS,1973-1999 (#62-154), includes recordings of June Jordan reading poetry and essays, giving speeches, introducing readers, and in collaborative musical performance or rehearsal. This section also includes: examples of other performers reciting Jordan's poems, a few speaking engagements by individuals with whom Jordan worked closely, or had a significant personal relationship, and other items.
June Jordan. University of Nebraska, Lincoln. November 1986.
Jordan discusses Bang Bang Uber Alles and contemporary hate acts by the Klu Klux Klan that inspired it, clashes with the Klan at the show, and collaborating with Adrienne Torf.
June Jordan and Adrienne Torf. Bang Bang Uber Alles. Atlanta, Georgia. Klan Montage/Act 1. 1986.
Excerpts include a Klu Klux Klan rally, music from the opera, and an interview with Jordan and Torf about their collaboration.
June Jordan and David Garrow. Stanford University, California. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration. Tape 1. January 20, 1987. Garrow and Jordan discuss King's legacy. Questions follow.
Garrow and Jordan discuss King's legacy. Questions follow.
Washington D.C. rally. April 25, 1987.
Side 1: unrelated material. Side 2: Jordan at a demonstration opposing United States foreign policy regarding South Africa.
June Jordan at Battersea Arts Centre, London, England. "Israel and South Africa." September 15, 1987.
Jordan discusses the reaction to an essay she read at the Democratic Socialist Scholars Conference in New York City in 1985, South Africa, and the New Jewish Agenda. Questions follow.
June Jordan, Merle Collins, Jean Binta Breeze. Battersea Arts Centre, London, England. September 1987.
Jordan, on a panel with other poets, reads her work.
Jackie Kay and June Jordan. Pegasus Theatre, Oxford University, England. September 14, 1987.
Jordan and Kay read.
Galway Kinnell reading. State University of New York, Stony Brook. December 9, 1987.
Jordan introduces poet Galway Kinnell.
June Jordan/Adrienne Torf duet. University of California, Santa Barbara. January 11, 1988.
Jordan and Torf perform many songs.
June Jordan at the University of California, Berkeley. September 1988.
Jordan reads an essay from On Call, and poems. She discusses teaching poetry, and Black English. Questions follow.
June Jordan. Brooklyn College (New York). April 4, 1989.
Jordan reads from Naming Our Destiny and other works. Questions follow.
National Poetry Week III, opening night award ceremony. San Francisco, California. Tape 1. October 13, 1989.
Allen Ginsberg and Adrienne Rich accept honors. Rich and Jordan do a collaborative reading. For related video material, see Vt-155.
Poetry November. University of California, Berkeley. Tape 1. November 5, 1990.
Jordan opens the event, and Cornelius Eady and Sherley Anne Williams read their works. For related video material, see Vt-155.
Persian Gulf Crisis Teach-in, University of California, Berkeley. Tape 1. November 14, 1990.
During a day-long teach-in and pre-emptive protest Jordan, members of the faculty, students, and other speakers discuss their opposition to impending United States intervention in the Persian Gulf, economic imperialism, and other topics regarding the Persian Gulf War and the Middle East generally. For related video material, see Vt-155.
"Women and War." June Jordan. Women's Alliance Conference in Berkeley, California. March 2-3, 1991.
Jordan reads a poem about women at war. Questions follow.
Luther College, Iowa. March 7, 1991.
Jordan reads works, discusses gender and identity politics, and South Africa. Questions follow.
June Jordan. Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, California. March 17, 1992.
As part of City Arts and Lectures series, Jordan and Angela Davis discuss their friendship, feminism, and other topics. Jordan reads.
"The Essay as a Form" and "The Functions of Race and Class" by June Jordan at the University of California, Berkeley. Tape 2. February 12 and February 20, 1986.
Jordan reads a song about Dan White, who killed San Francisco's Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978. She discusses lecturing on the use of Black English in Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple. Questions follow.
National Poetry Week III, opening night award ceremony. San Francisco, California. Tape 2. October 13, 1989.
Allen Ginsberg and Adrienne Rich accept honors. Rich and Jordan do a collaborative reading. For related video material, see Vt-155.
Poetry November. University of California, Berkeley. Tape 3. November 14, 1990.
Students in the African-American Studies course read, and Jordan reads from Caroling Dusk, an anthology of African-American poets. For related video material, see Vt-155.
Poetry November. University of California, Berkeley. Tape 5. November 19, 1990.
Students in the Women's Studies course read their work. For related video material, see Vt-155.
Poetry November. University of California, Berkeley. Tape 7. November 29, 1990.
Jordan opens, and the university provost welcomes poets Adrienne Rich and Thulani Davis. For related video material, see Vt-155.