Rag Radio 2013-05-24 - Poet & '60s Counterculture Legend John Sinclair - Бесплатная аудиокнига

Amsterdam-based poet and legendary countercultural figure John Sinclair -- who has performed spoken-word poetry with his band, The Blues Scholars, since the mid-‘90s -- founded the White Panther Party in Detroit in 1968, managed the historic “avant-rock” proto-punk band, the MC5, worked with the underground newspaper, the Fifth Estate, and founded the Detroit Artists Workshop.

After Sinclair was sentenced to 9-1/2 to 10 years in prison for giving two joints to an undercover policewoman, John Lennon celebrated him with the song “John Sinclair.” A 29-month campaign to gain his freedom climaxed in a mammoth eight-hour “John Sinclair Freedom Rally” in Ann Arbor, where John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Stevie Wonder, Allen Ginsberg, Phil Ochs, Bobby Seale, and others performed and spoke in front of 15,000 people. Three days after the concert, the Michigan Supreme Court released Sinclair, and later overturned his conviction.

Sinclair moved to New Orleans in 1991 where he was named the city’s most popular disc jockey by OffBeat Magazine five years in a row. In 1992 he formed his band, the Blues Scholars and began touring the United States as a performance artist. Sinclair has published several collections of his poetry and has released more than 15 CDs of his work with music and verse. He moved to Amsterdam in 2003. One of the pioneers of podcasting, his weekly internet program, The John Sinclair Radio Show, is the flagship of Radio Free Amsterdam.

Host and Producer of Rag Radio: Thorne Dreyer; Engineer and Co-Producer: Tracey Schulz. Rag Radio (koop.org/ragradio) is produced in the studios of KOOP 91.7-FM, an all-volunteer, cooperatively-run community radio station in Austin, Texas, in association with The Rag Blog (theragblog.blogspot.com) and the New Journalism Project, a Texas 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The show is broadcast (and streamed) live Fridays, 2-3 p.m. (Central) on KOOP, and is rebroadcast on WFTE-FM in Mt. Cobb and Scranton, PA., Sundays at 10 a.m. (Eastern time). Contact: ragradio@koop.org. Running time: 52:56.