KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ An Informal Conversation with Harvey Matusow and Friends

Analog Audio

Event Type

Lectures and Panel Discussions

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1972.12.18

Program Length

48 mins

Dates

| broadcast
| 1972-12-18 | created

Description

On December 18, 1972 in the KPFA Control Room a group of people got together for an informal and unstructured conversation. The jovial group included KPFA Music Director Charles Amirkhanian, Sheila and Larry Booth of Half Moon Bay, composer Annea Lockwood and her husband at that time, Harvey Matusow. Sounding more like friends at a party rather than any official type of radio show, the group listens as Matusow, (inventor of the stringless yo-yo, former informant for the House Committee on Un-American Activities, impresario and clown), offers an alternative view of famous American figures, and phones people at random to discover their problems. The rest of the group occasionally join in for some spontaneous and improvised words from their sponsors. Towards the end of the program they are joined by John Lifton and Pamela Zoline.

Genres

Current Events

Musical Selections

[improvised music and spoken word performance]

Subjects

History -- United States
Conversations

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related place

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Matusow, Harvey, 1926-
Lockwood, Annea, 1939-
Booth, Larry
Booth, Sheila R.
Lifton, John
Zoline, Pamela, 1941-