KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ A Reading by John Giorno & William Burroughs, Nov. 7, 1974

Analog Audio

Event Type

Spoken Word

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1974.11.07.c1

Program Length

79 min

Dates

1974-11-07 | broadcast
| 1974-11-07 | created

Description

Michael Reynolds introduces a live reading before an audience of over 1,000 at the Pauley Ballroom of U. C. Berkeley given by America's most noted writers, William S. Burroughs and John Giorno. Giorno (b. 1936) reads his newest work "Subduing Demons in America" and his "Suicide Sutra.” Burroughs reads excerpts from "Nova Express,” "The Wild Boys" and other works.

Warning: Contains scatological phraseology and other obscenities

Genres

Poetry
Literature

Musical Selections

Subduing Demons in America (1974) (29:04) / John Giorno -- Suicide Sutra (ca. 1973) (7:56) / John Giorno -- Nova Express [excerpt] (c. 1964) (2:54) / William S. Burroughs -- Cities to the Red Night: Virus B-23 [a work in progress, finally published in 1981] (9:04) / William S. Burroughs -- The Wild Boys [excerpt] (c. 1971) (23:56) / William S. Burroughs

Subjects

Poetry
Literature, Experimental
Cut-ups (Literary form)
Spoken word
Homosexuality
Drug abuse

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Bedoian, Victor
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997
Giorno, John