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| Monday, February 22, 2016 | 5:30 PM ET | |
| Community Advisory Board-WBAI | Live Meeting - Not Recorded | |
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Address: Location The Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217 United States |
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| New York - WBAI | ||
CO SPONSORED BY THE WBAI UNIVERSITY OF THE AIR A SERVICE OF THE WBAI COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play This is an ongoing class looking at the music of Frank Zappa This 10-week class will explore the music of Frank Zappa, one of the most important (and delectably enjoyable) composers of the late 20th century. Racist, sexist/misogynist, homophobe, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, Zappa was accused of them all at one point or another in his nearly 30 year career. Misunderstood? Well, Zappa was no socialist for sure; yet, from his first release, Freak Out, in 1966 until his premature death in 1993, he was always a keen (and often very funny) observer and critic of American society; its popular culture, politics, organized religions, mainstream education, censorship, and everything in between. Freak Out included “Trouble Every Day” about the Watts riots while Absolutely Free the Mothers second release in 1967 included “Plastic People”, Zappa’s critical take on hippie culture. Later came songs such as “Dickie’s Such an Asshole” (about Richard Nixon) and “Lonesome Cowboy Burt (Swaggert Version)” and “Jesus Thinks You’re a Jerk” (about televangelists Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Baker and Pat Robertson) and the full-length musical (?) Thing-Fish about an evil, racist prince/theater critic who creates a disease intended to wipe out African Americans and homosexuals and tests it on prisoners who are turned into "Mammy Nuns" led by the story's narrator, Thing-Fish (a reference to the “Kingfish” character from the 1920-1950s Amos and Andy radio program). And then there’s the music…some of the most creative and complex compositions that drew from, combined, deconstructed and or thoroughly destroyed rock, “pop,” jazz, classical, music concrete, blues, R&B, doo-wop, Broadway show-tunes and more. We will explore Zappa’s music by: • We will be reading Ben Watson’s Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play (informed by Frankfurt School theorist Theodore Adorno’s Negative Dialectics). The book is out of print but reasonably priced used copies are available through Abebooks.com, Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com; • Listening to Zappa’s music; music that influenced him (e.g., Edgar Varese, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern); and music influenced by him (e.g., the legendary Czech band The Plastic People of the Universe; England’s Henry Cow; Italy’s Area (an “Autonomia” movement band); German “Krautrock” band Faust; Sweden’s Zamla Mannas Manna; Maryland’s The Muffins; Cleveland’s Pere Ubu; and, many other bands you may well have never heard). • Viewing a classic early mid-70s Zappa concert. Dan Karan has been studying Marxist theory and listening to all manner of music for 40 years. The first record he ever owned was Zappa’s 1969 Hot Rats. His first concert at age 14 was a Zappa show. This is co sponsored by the WBAI University of the Air | ||
| Jim Dingeman | jimdingeman@yahoo.com | Posted: 02/03/2016 - 11:48 AM | Updated :02/05/2016 - 11:13 AM |
| Monday, February 22, 2016 | 6:00 PM ET | |
| Community Advisory Board-WBAI | Live Meeting - Not Recorded | |
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Address: Location Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 10th Floor 70 Washington Square South (West 4th between LaGuardia and Greene Streets) |
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| New York - WBAI | ||
CO SPONSORED BY THE WBAI UNIVERSITY OF THE AIR A SERVICE OF THE WBAI COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD ook Talk: Patrick Iber, Author of Neither Peace Nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America(Harvard University Press, 2015) Location: Tamiment Library Date/Time: February 22, 6:00- 7:30 p.m. *Co-Sponsored by the Center for the United States and the Cold War, the Gallatin School, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Free and open to all Bring picture ID | ||
| Jim Dingeman | jimdingeman@yahoo.com | Posted: 02/03/2016 - 8:59 AM | Updated :02/05/2016 - 11:12 AM |
| Monday, February 22, 2016 | 6:30 PM ET | |
| Community Advisory Board-WPFW | Live Meeting - Not Recorded | |
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Address: Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library, 3160 16th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20010 located 2 blocks from the Columbia Heights Metro Station and serviced by the S1/S2 bus routes. |
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| Purpose: Regular CAB Neeting | Committee Members | |
| Washington, DC - WPFW | ||
| Vinnie Jack | vinniejack@gmail.com | Posted: 02/11/2016 - 1:11 PM | Updated :02/11/2016 - 1:11 PM |
| Monday, February 22, 2016 | 7:00 PM ET | |
| WBAI PD Search Committee | Live Meeting - Not Recorded | |
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Address: WBAI, 388 Atlantic Ave. btw Hoyt & Bond, downtown Brooklyn, NY 11217 - Third Floor Trains: A/C/G to Hoyt & Schermerhorn; B/Q/R to Dekalb Ave. (elevator); D/N/LIRR to Atlantic Ave. (elevator). 2/3 to Hoyt St. and 4/5 to Nevins St. (2/3/4/5 to Atlantic Ave. – further away, but there’s an elevator). Transit info: http://is.gd/QrXaj1 |
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| New York - WBAI | ||
| Bob Lederer | ledererbob@usa.net | Posted: 02/14/2016 - 2:31 PM | Updated :02/14/2016 - 2:36 PM |
| Monday, February 22, 2016 | 7:00 PM ET | |
| WPFW Finance Committee | Live Meeting - Not Recorded | |
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Address: WPFW - 1990 K St., N.E., Washington, DC |
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| Emergency Session: discuss current finances at WPFW | ||
| Purpose: discuss current finances at WPFW | Committee Members | |
| Washington, DC - WPFW | ||
| Nancy Sorden | nancy.sorden@wap.org | Posted: 02/15/2016 - 10:07 AM | Updated :02/22/2016 - 1:51 PM |
| Monday, February 22, 2016 | 8:00 PM ET | |
| KPFT Management Selection and Review Committee | Live Meeting - Not Recorded | |
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Address: 401 Branard St Room #328 Houston, Texas 77006 |
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| Purpose: 2016 Convening Meeting | Committee Members | |
| Houston - KPFT | ||
| Joseph Davis | cwmj601@gmail.com | Posted: 02/11/2016 - 12:28 PM | Updated :06/06/2016 - 5:11 PM |
| Monday, February 22, 2016 | 8:00 PM ET | |
| WBAI PD Search Committee | Meeting Cancelled - Live Meeting - Not Recorded - Executive Session - Not Streamed | |
| Reason for Executive Session: To discuss applications for the position of Program Director. | ||
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Address: WBAI, 388 Atlantic Ave. btw Hoyt & Bond, downtown Brooklyn, NY 11217 Trains: A/C/G to Hoyt & Schermerhorn; B/Q/R to Dekalb Ave. (elevator); D/N/LIRR to Atlantic Ave. (elevator). 2/3 to Hoyt St. and 4/5 to Nevins St. (2/3/4/5 to Atlantic Ave. – further away, but there’s an elevator). Transit info: http://is.gd/QrXaj1 |
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| Purpose: To discuss applications for the position of Program Director. | Committee Members | |
| New York - WBAI | ||
| Bob Lederer | ledererbob@usa.net | Posted: 02/14/2016 - 2:37 PM | Updated :02/22/2016 - 9:36 PM |
| Monday, February 22, 2016 | 10:30 PM ET | |
| KPFK Personnel Committee | Live Meeting - Not Recorded | |
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Address: KPFK Station, 3729 Cahuenga Boulevard West, North Hollywood, CA 91604-3504 |
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| Los Angeles - KPFK | ||
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KPFK is 3/4 block southeast of the intersection of Lankershim and Ventura Blvds., not far from the Universal Studios Red Line station on Lankershim. Meetings are open to the public. Phone: 818-985-2711. | ||
| Jaime Gomez | jgogogomez@yahoo.com | Posted: 02/04/2016 - 9:43 PM | Updated :02/07/2016 - 11:23 PM |