Journal

Audio

Stompin’ and Beatin’ and Screamin’: Jerry Hunt Live, 1963–88

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Twenty-five years of live recordings

Interview

Texas Country Reporter

Jerry Hunt and Bob Phillips

An unaired conversation about rural life for public TV.

Essay

The Contemporary Arts of Attica

E. C. Feiss

Cover of the Attica Book, illustration by Antonio Frasconi.

The Attica Book instigates an alternate history, where minimalism and mass incarceration emerge simultaneously on the Lower East Side.

Archival

The Fink Archive

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Catwalk leading to "Times Square," Attica Correctional Facility, New York

A collection of previously hidden photos exonerating the Attica Brothers, secured by human rights lawyer Elizabeth Fink.

Audio

Coming Together: A May Day Broadcast

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Six hours of music and interviews celebrating work inspired by the Attica rebellion.

Essay

“Attica is in Front of Me”: Mingus, Rzewski, Shepp

David Grundy

Front cover of Frederic Rzewski’s Attica / Coming Together / Les Moutons De Panurge (detail), 1974.

Responses to the Attica rebellion by Frederic Rzewski, Archie Shepp, and Charles Mingus pursued the question: how to use the resources of improvisation to provide ways for Black life to survive in the American necropolis.

Archival

The Meaning of Attica

Val Wilmer

Cover of Archie Shepp’s Attica Blues (detail), 1972).

An article based on an interview conducted with Archie Shepp, Beaver Harris, and William Kunstler for the November 1972 issue of Jazz Magazine, here translated from the French.

Essay

Indifferent Brutality, Incessant Noise

Ciarán Finlayson

Untitled collage from Fighting Back! Attica Memorial to the People — 1974, published by Attica Brothers Legal Defense.

Introducing “Coming Together,” a group of texts, images, and recordings reflecting on the Attica rebellion fifty years after landmark recordings by several American composers.

Archival