Event Listing - Music

Mon Nov 9

Amiri Baraka with The Howard Wiley Trio

Tel. 415-655-5600
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Location	Date and Time
Yoshi's San Francisco 1330 Fillmore Street San Francisco, CA 94115 map cross street: Eddy district: Japantown/Fillmore	Mon Nov 9 (8PM)

Description

8pm show $16 advance / $20 at-the-door

Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe.

With influences on his work ranging from musical orishas such as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, and Sun Ra to the Cuban Revolution, Malcolm X and world revolutionary movements, Baraka is renowned as the founder of the Black Arts Movement in Harlem in the 1960s that became, though short-lived, the virtual blueprint for a new American theater aesthetics. The movement and his published and performance work, such as the signature study on African-American music, Blues People (1963) and the play Dutchman (1963) practically seeded “the cultural corollary to black nationalism” of that revolutionary American milieu.