Composers and their stage works 



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)
  1. A Good Girl Is Hard to Find (produced 1958).
  2. Dante (produced 1961; as The 8th Ditch, produced 1964).
  3. The Toilet (produced 1964).
  4. Dutchman (produced 1964).
  5. The Slave (produced 1964).
  6. The Baptism (produced 1964).
  7. Jello (produced 1965). 1970.
  8. Experimental Death Unit #1 (also director: produced 1965).
  9. A Black Mass (also director: produced 1966).
  10. Arm Yrself or Harm Yrself (produced 1967). 1967.
  11. Slave Ship: A Historical Pageant (produced 1967). 1967.
  12. Madheart (also director: produced 1967).
  13. Great Goodness of Life (A Coon Show) (also director: produced 1967).
  14. Home on the Range (produced 1968). 1968.
  15. Police. 1968.
  16. The Death of Malcolm X, 1969.
  17. Rockgroup. 1969.
  18. Insurrection (produced 1969).
  19. Junkies are Full of (SHHH ... ), 1970
  20. Bloodrites (produced 1970).
  21. Black Power Chant. 1972.
  22. Columbia the Gem of the Ocean (produced 1973).
  23. A Recent Killing (produced 1973).
  24. The New Ark's a Moverin (produced 1974).
  25. The Sidnee Poet Heroical (also director: produced 1975). 1979.
  26. S-1 (also director: produced 1976).
  27. America More or Less, with Frank Chin and Leslie Marmon Silko, music by Tony Greco, lyrics by Arnold Weinstein (produced 1976).
  28. The Motion of History (also director: produced 1977).
  29. The Motion of History and Other Plays (includes S-1 and Slave Ship). 1978.
  30. What was the Relationship of the Lone Ranger to the Means of Production? (produced 1979).
  31. At the Dim'crackr Convention (produced 1980).
  32. Boy and Tarzan Appear in a Clearing (produced 1981).
  33. Weimar 2 (produced 1981).
  34. Money: A Jazz Opera, with George Gruntz, music by Gruntz (produced 1982).
  35. Primitive World, music by David Murray (produced 1984).
  36. General Hag's Skeezag (produced 1991).

SCREENPLAYS:

  1. Dutchman, 1967;
  2. Black Spring, 1967;
  3. A Fable, 1971;
  4. Supercoon, 1971.