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Singer-songwriter Erykah Badu continues to explore the music generated by the Black Power movement in the 1960s and 1970s. From January 2012.

Singer and songwriter Erykah Badu presents a two-part series exploring the extraordinary underground music generated by the Black Power movement of the late Sixties and early Seventies: radical, beautiful and rare.

Contributors include: Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, founder of the Black Arts Movement Amiri Baraka, Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez, jazz flautist Lloyd McNeil, Abiodun Oyewole of the Last Poets, Gill Scott Heron's co-writer Brian Jackson, hip-hop artist Talib Kweli and former Black Panther leader and songwriter Elaine Brown.

Presenter: Erykah Badu

Producer: Simon Hollis
A Brook Lapping Production for 麻豆社 Radio 4.

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  • Thu 12 Jan 2012 11:30
    麻豆社 Radio 4
  • Fri 21 Sep 2012 23:30
    麻豆社 Radio 4
  • Wed 10 Oct 2018 06:30
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  • Wed 10 Oct 2018 13:30
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  • Wed 10 Oct 2018 20:30
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  • Thu 11 Oct 2018 01:30
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