Cassette of Last Poets performance at Auburn Correctional Facility
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Object Details
- Recorded by
- The Last Poets, American, founded 1968
- Owned by
- Suliaman El-Hadi, American, 1936 - 1995
- Description
- Black cassette tape with white and pink label. Handwritten information appears on both sides of cassette tape. Side 1 of cassette tape has handwritten information reading, [THE Last PoEts & M.P.C. At/AubuRn CoRRECtional Facility/#2/4-29-78]. Side 2 of cassette tape has handwritten information reading, [PoEts & M.P.C.].
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Qaddafi El-Hadi in memory of Suliaman El-Hadi
- April 29, 1978
- Object number
- 2014.40.6
- Type
- audio cassettes
- Medium
- plastic and tape
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 2 9/16 × 4 × 1/2 in. (6.5 × 10.2 × 1.3 cm)
- Place depicted
- Auburn, Cayuga County, New York, United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Media Arts-Audio Recordings
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Hip-hop (Music)
- Prisons
- Spoken word (Poetry)
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2014.40.6
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd59ff2de24-c8cf-44c2-a951-51c84a1b115a
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