Archive for the ‘Themes’ Category
September 1975
Archive Entry Date: 9/1/75
Commander Cody one night and John Lee Hooker the next. The Keystone could handle it all.
August 1975
Archive Entry Date: 8/1/75
Local reggae acts and legendary Blues men at the Keystone in the summer
Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
Archive Entry Date: 08/75
The band on its relationship with the women's movement -- in its mid-70s moment and in retrospect
July 1975
Archive Entry Date: 7/1/75
The James Cotton Blues Band, Roy Ayers, and Graham Central Station made for a funky summer
A Rainbow of Poetry: The Berkeley Marathon
Archive Entry Date: 7/1/1975
Rainbow Sign sponsored the longest poetry marathon ever, according to the Guinness Book of World Records
Berkeley College Prep A Success
Archive Entry Date: 06/18/1975
A different narrative about minority achievement and experimental schools.
Bill Thomas Resigns
Archive Entry Date: 06/17/1975
Looming deficits prompted the district's business manager to resign under a cloud
Gay and Proud
Archive Entry Date: 1975/1976
The song that profoundly affected the BWMC's audience — the uplifting but hard-edged "Gay and Proud"
Keystone Berkeley calendar June 1975
Archive Entry Date: 6/1/1975
A typically wide-ranging lineup of artists
We’re Hip
Archive Entry Date: 1975
Finding inspiration in incarcerated women, the BWMC were skeptical of "the bossman's game"
An Exploration of the Integral Urban House
Archive Entry Date: c. 1975-1980
Video from a tour of the Integral Urban House in its heyday
University Support of PDSP
Archive Entry Date: 05/19/75
Little could have been accomplished by the PDSP without the support of the Cal administration
San Francisco Bank Song
Archive Entry Date: 1975
A portrait, in music, of a bank worker and her aspirations to broaden herself and the world
Malcolm X Celebration
Archive Entry Date: 05/14/1975
Berkeley's Black Studies program held an arts celebration to remember
Public tour in front of the house’s entrance
Archive Entry Date: c. 1975
Crowds came from far and wide to learn about the impressive IUH
Public tour at the chicken coops
Archive Entry Date: c. 1975
People of all ages flocked to see the resident chickens and rabbits at the IUH
People around a table, watching a wood-carving demonstration
Archive Entry Date: c. 1975
Men and women dressed in everyday clothes, ready to learn new skills
Gay Switchboard
Archive Entry Date: 5/8/75
Pacific Center began with a Gay Switchboard that was pivotal for the queer community
Fury
Archive Entry Date: 1975
A song about women's built-up rage, and how it led to a tense border stop
“No Thanks Mister”
Archive Entry Date: 1975
Nancy Henderson said "no thanks" to the bad "trips" of men she'd known
Mercy Me, I’m Lonely Tonight
Archive Entry Date: 1975
Nancy Vogl explored how the personal was the political on this track from the BWMC's first album
Sound Not Unsound Concert Review
Archive Entry Date: 05/1975
A concert critique reveals the challenges of the DIY nature of the women's music movement.
Is Women’s Music for Lesbians: A Review of Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
Archive Entry Date: 05/75
In "Lesbian Connection," a listener faulted the Collective for playing music for women, not lesbians
The Rainbow Sign Can Use Some Help
Archive Entry Date: 4/18/1975
With Nina Simone's help, Mary Ann Pollar clarified the Rainbow Sign's educational mission
School Specialists To Fill Teacher Vacancies
Archive Entry Date: 04/16/1975
Superintendent Wilson seeks to slim out the teacher and administrative base.
Depicting Black Struggle
Archive Entry Date: 4/11/1975
Elizabeth Catlett's art "celebrates her cultural heritage and protests her people's persecution"
School Turmoil Finally Over
Archive Entry Date: 04/09/1975
Berkeley teachers appeared to have reached an agreement on their 1975-1976 contract
Odetta and Liberian Tribal Dance Company
Archive Entry Date: 4/15/75
A folk legend sings for the Rainbow cause