"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– News Of The World – December 8, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This December 8 in 1947 saw the country battling Politics and Inflation, the Cold War unfolding and American cities squabbling for bragging rights. Politics and…
– Margaret Mead – lecture at Illinois State University – April 1976 – NPR: Options – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Had she been around in 2023, Cultural Anthropologist Margaret Mead would no doubt have much to say, and none…
– The Open Mind – State of American Book Publishing – November 13, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Book Publishing in America – always at the brink of extinction – always under threat. In 1960 the threat came…
News Commentaries – November 29, 1961 – NBC Radio Closed Circuit – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seems there was no end to hotspots around the world, this November 29th in 1961. Between allegations of attempted Cuba interfering in elections in…
– Maya Angelou, Jane Birkin, Russ Meyer, William Friedkin, Bob Crane – Kup’s Show – March 26, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Even though 1970 seemed a little late to talk about it, the subject of free-love, single…
– KPFA Evening News – Special Report – November 27, 1978 – KPFA/KPFB – Pacifica Network – November 27, 1978 – 45 years ago today, an act of jealousy and hatred changed the face of a city. The Moscone–Milk assassinations…
– NPR Special Program – Island of Dreams – Coney Island – Nov. 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Iconic place, Coney Island. Long history. A place where seemingly half the world showed up on a Summer weekend to…
– F. Scott Fitzgerald – Biography In Sound – June 28, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – F. Scott Fitzgerald – a name which conjures up images of The Jazz Age, the “Era of Wonderful Nonsense”, the “Lost Generation”…
– CBS Radio – The Washington Week – November 24, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – No shortage of Big Ticket crises this week, the one ending on this day in 1973. There was Watergate and the seemingly endless…
Diving into the Holiday weekend with a concert by The Jam, from the legendary CBGBs in New York, recorded on October 15, 1977. Proclaimed by many to be Britain’s Greatest Band, The Jam came on the scene and sparked the…