Research Catalog

Title

Arthur Bell interviews Bob Livingston, 1978-12-16.

Publication

1978.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Livingston, Robert, 1932-1979
• Carlos, Wendy
• Bell, Arthur (Arthur Irving)

Found In

Arthur Bell collection of recorded interviews, 1970-1980.

Description

2 streaming audio files (approximately 93 min) : digital, stereo.

Summary

• CD 1, tracks 1-7. Arthur Bell interviews Bob [Robert] L. Livingston, first openly gay man appointed to the New York City Human Rights Commission in 1977 by Mayor Abraham Beame. Livingston discusses his life and political career as a gay activist, his support of gay and lesbian rights movement, founding one of the city's first homosexual rights groups, the New York Political Action Council, and gay bar life in New York City in the 1970's (December 16, 1978).
• CD 1, tracks 8-10 and CD 2. American composer and electronic musician Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos; November 14, 1939) discusses her life and career as a composer, and shares her experience writing music for the 1980 film "The shining," produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. She talks about her long-term collaboration with another performing artist Rachel Elkind. She also recounts the details of her transsexual process, her reassignment surgery (May 1972), and after surgery hormonal treatments [1980?].

Alternative Title

Arthur Bell collection of recorded interviews.

Subject

• Livingston, Robert, 1932-1979 > Interviews
• Carlos, Wendy > Interviews
• Elkind, Rachel
• Gay activists > United States > Interviews
• Gay bars > New York (State) > New York
• Electronic music
• Composers > United States > Interviews
• Transsexuals > United States > Interviews
• Transgender people > Medical care > United States
• Gender transition > Risk factors
• Transsexualism > Social aspects > United States
• Gender nonconformity > United States
• Transsexuals > Surgery
• Gender transition

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Sound recordings.

Note

• Interview by Arthur Bell, most probably conducted for his popular column "Bell tells" in the Village Voice.
• Title supplied by cataloger from information on original cassette.
• Streaming files were created in two parts; track IDs have been inserted every five minutes on service compact disc for reference purposes.

Access (note)

• Patrons can access streaming audio file online only onsite at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Access to original items restricted.

Additional Formats (note)

• Service compact discs (2 audio discs : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original, available in *LDC 52796.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of Arthur Bell collection of recorded interviews, 1970-1980, *L (Special) 90-32.

Call Number

*LDC 52796

OCLC

861191819

Title

Arthur Bell interviews Bob Livingston, 1978-12-16.

Production

1978.

Type of Content

spoken word

Type of Medium

computer

audio

Type of Carrier

audio disc

Event

Recorded 1978 December 16 (CD 1, tracks 1-7) and [1980?] (CD 1, tracks 8-10 and CD 2) [New York, N.Y.]

Access

Patrons can access streaming audio file online only onsite at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Access to original items restricted.

Linking Entry

Forms part of Arthur Bell collection of recorded interviews, 1970-1980, *L (Special) 90-32.

Additional Formats

Service compact discs (2 audio discs : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original, available in *LDC 52796.

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Added Author

Livingston, Robert, 1932-1979, interviewee.

Carlos, Wendy, interviewee.

Bell, Arthur (Arthur Irving), interviewer.

Bell, Arthur (Arthur Irving), donor.

Added Title

Arthur Bell collection of recorded interviews.

Found In:

Arthur Bell collection of recorded interviews, 1970-1980.

Research Call Number

*LDC 52796

*LTC 4527