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Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1967-1974
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  • Companion ‘soundtrack’ to the Fantagraphics book, Listen Whitey
  • Double LP version sports a deluxe gatefold old school “tip-on” jacket that includes book-deep 8-page liner notes with rare photos and album covers.
  • CD version is a high-gloss Digipak with 40-page booklet, featuring liner notes and many archive photos culled from years of research.
  • Both versions have complete track-listing featuring tracks by Gil Scott-Heron, John & Yoko, the Black Forum and Black Power labels, including the never-before-reissued song “George Jackson” by Bob Dylan, plus much more.

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The Definitive Black Power Aural Document

As the ‘soundtrack’ to the acclaimed 200-pg hardcover book on Fantagraphics, Listen, Whitey! captures an era when revolutionaries were pop culture icons. In this unique cross-cultural overview Bob Dylan’s 1971 single “George Jackson” (never before reissued) sits alongside Gil Scott-Heron, John & Yoko, and The Original Last Poets, plus selections from the Black Forum label, Motown’s early ‘70s Black Power imprint featuring Elaine Brown, Stokely Carmichael, & Amiri Baraka.

The Definitive Black Power Aural Document

Over a five year period in Oakland, CA – archivist Pat Thomas befriended key leaders of the seminal Black Power Movement, dug through Huey Newton’s archives at Stanford University, spent countless hours and thousands of dollars on eBay, and talked to rank and file Black Panther Party members, uncovering dozens of obscure albums, singles, and stray tapes. Along the way, he began to piece together a time period (1967-1974) when revolutionaries were seen as pop culture icons: Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael – and musicians were seen as revolutionaries; Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Bob Dylan, John Lennon and others. As a result, Thomas wrote a 70,000-word hardcover book entitled Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965 – 1975_ – to be published by blank">Fantagraphics in early 2012 – which also...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Invitation To Black Power (Parts 1 & 2)
    6:07
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  • 2 Free Huey
    4:51
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  • 3 Silent Majority (Live At Newport)
    5:50
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  • 4 Until We're Free
    2:15
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  • 5 George Jackson (Acoustic Version)
    3:41
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  • 6 Dem Niggers Ain't Playing
    1:54
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  • 7 Woman Of The Ghetto (Live At Montreux)
    10:06
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  • 8 Black Power
    2:51
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  • 9 I Ain't Black
    5:51
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  • 10 I Hate The White Man
    8:05
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  • 11 Winter In America (Solo Version)
    6:28
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  • 12 Tim Leary
    5:32
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  • 13 Angela
    4:09
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  • 14 Free Bobby Now
    2:23
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  • 15 Die Nigga!!!
    3:18
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  • 16 Who Will Survive America
    3:06
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