BLACK DRAMA vinyl LP - DJ MARK FARINA MUSHROOM JAZZ - Folkways Records Near MINT

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If you have ever heard mix cds or mixes from DJ Mark Farina, you've heard Barbara Ann Teer's voice. She is the source of those female vocal samples from the Om Records legendary Mushroom Jazz cd series and appears on many of Mark's underground house and MJ mixtapes from the popular Jazid Up / Mushroom Jazz weeklies throughout the entire 90s starting from 50 cassette tape runs in 1992.

"Dancing for me - all my life, I've been dancing - it was always kind of a social thing. And now that I look back in retrospect, I know that whenever I was unhappy, not feeling well, or depressed, I would dance. I usually dance around a table. And now that I have more knowledge, the concept of dancing around a table - table - circle - circle is completion, circle is wholeness, 360 degrees that kind of thing, but the music and the movement around the tableand around the table - when I finished I always felt great. So now I say that that was a form of unconscious therapy, but all I knew was that I felt raised, I felt lifted. So I love to dance all of a sudden. It became my life, It's like liquor raises your spirits, well dancing for me raised my spirits and so they kept pushing me into the field of dance.

A need to be in an atmosphere that is free, that is open, that is striving for truth and not somebody else dictating to you to do your thing which you know how to do better than anybody else.

...the need to be in an environment that is free, that is open, that is devoid of dictators telling you how to do your thing..."

Folkways Records and Service Corporation - FL 9712 Long Playing Non-Breakable Micro Groove 33 1/3 RPM vinyl record

Vinyl is in Mint/Near Mint condition. I say that because I don't know that any record could be truly considered mint once the plastic seal has been broken but I do feel comfortable saying that, in my opinion as a collector - not an expert, it seems to be in mint condition. No scratches, warps, or marks. No fingerprints because I know how to hold a record properly (Ha Ha - I hate the way most people leave fingerprints on records!). The sleeve shows wear which is normal given the age. The pictures show the actual items and their condition. Includes liner notes.

On this recording, Folkways records brings to the listener the wisdom of two leading black artists - Barbara Ann Teer, Founder and Director of the National Black Theatre and Charlie L. Russell, a playwright whose work in-corporates humor, political
consciousness for real black characters. Black Drama offers the autobiographical accounts of two leading African-American figures in live theater during the 1970s: Barbara Ann Teer and Charlie L. Russell. Russell, author of the play Five on a Black Hand Side shares his motivation behind writing plays designed with a black audience in mind while Teer describes her journey from dance student to founder of the NBT.