Beat and Beyond: Amiri Baraka
Tue, June 11, 2013 8 pm CEST, Lecture
The author Amiri Baraka (*1934, as LeRoi Jones in Newark) is considered one of the outstanding literary talents of African America. In addition to lyric poetry, Baraka authored award-winning plays during the 1960s. Furthermore, he wrote numerous essays and discourses on social and political questions, as well as on the history of Afro-American music.
Amiri Baraka has been a literary activist and observer of contemporary American culture for the past sixty years. He is an author for whom both text and performance are of equal importance – the origins of modern rap are clearly evident in Baraka’s work.
As part of the exhibition "Beat Generation / Allen Ginsberg", the ZKM presents one of the last living companions of Allen Ginsberg: an African-American Beat poet and artist, who always conceived of poetry and politics as two sides of the same coin.
Manfred Heinfeldner (SWR) will moderate the evening.
Amiri Baraka has been a literary activist and observer of contemporary American culture for the past sixty years. He is an author for whom both text and performance are of equal importance – the origins of modern rap are clearly evident in Baraka’s work.
As part of the exhibition "Beat Generation / Allen Ginsberg", the ZKM presents one of the last living companions of Allen Ginsberg: an African-American Beat poet and artist, who always conceived of poetry and politics as two sides of the same coin.
Manfred Heinfeldner (SWR) will moderate the evening.
- Credits
- Manfred Heinfeldner (Moderation)
- Organization / Institution
- ZKM
Accompanying program
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- Thu, July 04, 2013
- ReMembering Allen Ginsberg. Honouring David Amram
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Festival
Kubus
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- Fri, June 14, 20137 pm
- Beat Generation. Allen Ginsberg (opening)
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Opening
Foyer
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- Fri, June 14, 20134 pm
- Allen Ginsberg: Hustler for Life, Save the Children und Jonas in the Desert
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Film Screening
Vortragssaal
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- Thu, June 13, 20138 pm
- Beat Generation: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs
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Film Screening
Medientheater
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- Tue, June 11, 20138 pm
- Beat and Beyond: Amiri Baraka
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Lecture
Medientheater