Music has always been an integral part of the African American experience. Documentaries on the Civil Rights Movement frequently highlight important albums and concerts, and for many people, listening to jazz, R&B, and hip-hop has animated learning about African American history. Amidst the fighting and frustration of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, the aggravation of the 1992 LA Uprisings, and all that ensued in the intervening years, the radio played on, broadcasting music by Horace Tapscott, Sam Cooke, Ice Cube, Elaine Brown, 2Pac, Watts Prophets, and Charles Wright, among many others. Trouble Every Day: LA 1965/1992--an immersive listening environments--is presented in conjunction with No Justice, No Peace: LA 1992 to highlight the music of civil rights struggles.

TRACK LIST 

1. Riot(Can We All Just Get Along?) - Flying Lotus (2008) 
2. Uprising (LAPD Police Scanner edit)- Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Black (1986)
3. What Can Wash Away? -Ben Henderson's "Fabulous" Watts Community Choir (1970) 
4. Interviews from Wattstax (1973) 
5. Flight 17 (First Movement) - Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (1978)
6. A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke (1964) 
7. Dem Niggers Ain't Playin - The Watts Prophets (1971)
8. Jesse Jackson Interview from Wattstax (1973) 
9. What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye/Public Enemy edit (1988/1971) 
10. April 1992 Emergency Broadcast System Activation 
11. We Had to Tear This Mothafucka Up - Ice Cube (1992) 
12. Pledge of Allegiance? - The Watts Prophets (1969) 
13. Simi Valley Blues (It's Not Right What You Did edit) - Branford Marsalis (1992) 
14. The Day The Niggaz Took Over - Dr. Dre ft. Daz Dillinger, RBX, and Snoop Dogg (1992) 
15. It Was A Good Day - Ice Cube w/Sa-I-Gu edit (1992/1993) 
16. Black Korea - Ice Cube (1991) 
17. A cappella riot verse - Dumbfounded (2016) 
18. 6 in the Mornin' - Ice-T (1986) 
19. Stompin' to Tha 90's - Yo-Yo (1990) 
20. Batterman  w/Florence & Normandie edit - Toddy Tee (1985) 
21. Fuck Tha Police  w/ Gang Truce edit - N.W.A. (1988) 
22. Tolerate - Freestyle Fellowship (1993)
23. To Live & Die in LA  (Dragnet edit) - Tupac Shakur (1996) 
24. We Must Love Black People w/The "Los Angeles Plan" meets "Night of The Living Dead" - The Watts Prophets (1969/1974/1966) 
25. Pacific Coast Blues - Dinah Washington (1955) 
26. All the Young Fine Men - Elaine Brown (1973) 
27. Black California - Dorothy Morrison (1970) 
28. This Land is Your Land - Compton City Schools (1969) 







Trouble Every Day: LA 1965/1992 is organized by Naima J. Keith, Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Programs, CAAM; Josh Kun, Professor of Communication, USC; and artist Genevieve Gaignard.

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To research, collect, preserve, and interpret for public enrichment the history, art and culture of African Americans with an emphasis on California and the western United States.

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