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James Baldwin audio collection.

Title
  1. James Baldwin audio collection.
Published by
  1. [1980]
Author
  1. Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

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Additional authors
  1. Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008
  2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
Description
  1. 25 audiotape reels
Subject
  1. Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Interviews
  2. African American authors
  3. African American dramatists
  4. African American gay men
  5. African American political activists
  6. American literature -- African American authors
  7. American poetry -- African American authors
  8. Political activists
  9. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Genre/Form
  1. Interviews.
Call number
  1. Sc MIRS Baldwin 2017-03
Note
  1. James Baldwin (1924-1987) was an African American novelist, essayist, intellectual, and activist, renowned as one of the world's most influential voices of the twentieth century. His works include novels, essays, plays, poems, and speeches on race, class, masculinity, sexuality, justice, and love, among other themes.
  2. The James Baldwin audio collection consists of thirty-five audio recordings. Some of Baldwin's works discussed include the novels Another Country (1962), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974), and Just Above My Head (1979). He also mentions the play Blues for Mister Charlie (1964), and the essay collections Notes of a Native Son (1955), Nobody Knows My Name (1961), The Fire Next Time (1963), and The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985).
Author
  1. Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, creator.
Title
  1. James Baldwin audio collection.
Publisher
  1. [1980]
Type of content
  1. spoken word
Type of medium
  1. audio
Type of carrier
  1. audiotape reel
  2. audiocassette
Local note
  1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the James Baldwin papers, 1936-1992. (Sc MG 936). Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.
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Added author
  1. Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008, interviewer.
  2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
Research call number
  1. Sc MIRS Baldwin 2017-03
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