Episode 7 • Dutchman, by Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka
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Episode 7 • Dutchman, by Amiri Baraka
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Dutchman was written by Amiri Baraka.

This recording features Shelly Parsons as Lula, and Winston Butler as Clay, with a special appearance by Joe Clark as The Drunk.

The score was composed and performed by Bob Fraser. Directed by Paul Vangelisti.

This performance was first broadcast on KPFK on January 12, 1982. Special thanks to Pacifica Radio Archives for their generous support. Explore their extensive collections here: https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org

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Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), born Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, was a poet, playwright, essayist, and activist whose work spanned more than five decades. A central figure in the Beat movement, Black Arts Movement, and Black Power era, Baraka fused art with radical politics, exploring themes of race, identity, and resistance. His early works, like Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961), evolved into searing revolutionary texts such as Black Magic(1969). Baraka’s plays, including Dutchman (1964), challenged racial and cultural complacency. Fierce, controversial, and prolific, he remains one of America’s most influential and uncompromising literary voices.

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