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Additional authors

1. Livingston, Robert, 1932-1979
2. Carlos, Wendy
3. Bell, Arthur (Arthur Irving)

Found in

1. Arthur Bell collection of recorded interviews, 1970-1980.

Description

1. 2 streaming audio files (approximately 93 min) : digital, stereo.

Summary

1. CD 1, tracks 1-7. Arthur Bell interviews Bob [Robert] L. Livingston, first openly gay man appointed to the New York City Human Rights Commission in 1977 by Mayor Abraham Beame. Livingston discusses his life and political career as a gay activist, his support of gay and lesbian rights movement, founding one of the city's first homosexual rights groups, the New York Political Action Council, and gay bar life in New York City in the 1970's (December 16, 1978).
2. CD 1, tracks 8-10 and CD 2. American composer and electronic musician Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos; November 14, 1939) discusses her life and career as a composer, and shares her experience writing music for the 1980 film "The shining," produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. She talks about her long-term collaboration with another performing artist Rachel Elkind. She also recounts the details of her transsexual process, her reassignment surgery (May 1972), and after surgery hormonal treatments [1980?].

Alternative title

1. Arthur Bell collection of recorded interviews.

Subject

1. Livingston, Robert, 1932-1979 -- Interviews. - [Browse in index]
2. Carlos, Wendy -- Interviews. - [Browse in index]
3. Elkind, Rachel. - [Browse in index]
4. Gay activists -- United States -- Interviews. - [Browse in index]
5. Gay bars -- New York (State) -- New York. - [Browse in index]
6. Electronic music. - [Browse in index]
7. Composers -- United States -- Interviews. - [Browse in index]
8. Transsexuals -- United States -- Interviews. - [Browse in index]
9. Transgender people -- Medical care -- United States. - [Browse in index]
10. Gender transition -- Risk factors. - [Browse in index]
11. Transsexualism -- Social aspects -- United States. - [Browse in index]
12. Gender nonconformity -- United States. - [Browse in index]
13. Transsexuals -- Surgery. - [Browse in index]
14. Gender transition. - [Browse in index]

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. *LDC 52796

Language

1. English

Note

1. Interview by Arthur Bell, most probably conducted for his popular column "Bell tells" in the Village Voice.
2. Title supplied by cataloger from information on original cassette.
3. Streaming files were created in two parts; track IDs have been inserted every five minutes on service compact disc for reference purposes.

Access (note)

1. Patrons can access streaming audio file online only onsite at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Access to original items restricted.

Additional formats (note)

1. Service compact discs (2 audio discs : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original, available in *LDC 52796.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of Arthur Bell collection of recorded interviews, 1970-1980, *L (Special) 90-32.

Type of content

1. spoken word

Type of medium

1. computer
2. audio

Type of carrier

1. audio disc

Event

1. Recorded 1978 December 16 (CD 1, tracks 1-7) and [1980?] (CD 1, tracks 8-10 and CD 2) [New York, N.Y.]

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Music Division Audio and Moving Image material
2. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Livingston, Robert, 1932-1979, interviewee.
2. Carlos, Wendy, interviewee.
3. Bell, Arthur (Arthur Irving), interviewer.
4. Bell, Arthur (Arthur Irving), donor.