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Pages: 322
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Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-11 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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“Sites provides crucial context on how Chicago’s Afrocentrist philosophy, religion, and jazz scenes helped turn Blount into Sun Ra.” —Chicago Reader Sun
A Pure Solar World
Language: en
Pages: 373
Authors: Paul Youngquist
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-25 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows, he pioneered free-form improvisation in an ensemble setting
The Immeasurable Equation
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Pages: 541
Authors: Sun Ra
Categories: African American philosophers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

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A talented pianist and composer in his own right, Sun Ra (1914 - 1993) founded and conducted one of jazz's last great big bands from the 1950s until he left pla
Space Is the Place
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Pages: 315
Authors: John Szwed
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-30 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra—aka Herman Blount—was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and s
Touching Photographs
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Margaret Olin
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Photography does more than simply represent the world. It acts in the world, connecting people to form relationships and shaping relationships to create communi