Imamu Amiri BARAKA
Born Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, 7 October 1934;
took name Amiri Baraka in 1968.
Stage Works
(earlier works as LeRoi Jones)
- A Good Girl Is Hard to Find (produced 1958).
- Dante (produced 1961; as The 8th Ditch, produced 1964).
- The Toilet (produced 1964).
- Dutchman (produced 1964).
- The Slave (produced 1964).
- The Baptism (produced 1964).
- Jello (produced 1965). 1970.
- Experimental Death Unit #1 (also director: produced 1965).
- A Black Mass (also director: produced 1966).
- Arm Yrself or Harm Yrself (produced 1967). 1967.
- Slave Ship: A Historical Pageant (produced 1967). 1967.
- Madheart (also director: produced 1967).
- Great Goodness of Life (A Coon Show) (also director: produced
1967).
- Home on the Range (produced 1968). 1968.
- Police. 1968.
- The Death of Malcolm X, 1969.
- Rockgroup. 1969.
- Insurrection (produced 1969).
- Junkies are Full of (SHHH ... ), 1970
- Bloodrites (produced 1970).
- Black Power Chant. 1972.
- Columbia the Gem of the Ocean (produced 1973).
- A Recent Killing (produced 1973).
- The New Ark's a Moverin (produced 1974).
- The Sidnee Poet Heroical (also director: produced 1975). 1979.
- S-1 (also director: produced 1976).
- America More or Less, with Frank Chin and Leslie Marmon Silko,
music by Tony Greco, lyrics by Arnold Weinstein (produced 1976).
- The Motion of History (also director: produced 1977).
- The Motion of History and Other Plays (includes S-1 and Slave Ship).
1978.
- What was the Relationship of the Lone Ranger to the Means of Production? (produced
1979).
- At the Dim'crackr Convention (produced 1980).
- Boy and Tarzan Appear in a Clearing (produced 1981).
- Weimar 2 (produced 1981).
- Money: A Jazz Opera, with George Gruntz, music by Gruntz (produced
1982).
- Primitive World, music by David Murray (produced 1984).
- General Hag's Skeezag (produced 1991).
SCREENPLAYS:
- Dutchman, 1967;
- Black Spring, 1967;
- A Fable, 1971;
- Supercoon, 1971.
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