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A Pure Solar World : Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism / Paul Youngquist.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781477311172
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.65092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • ML410.S978 Y68 2016
  • ML410.S978 Y68 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prelude to Infinity -- Intro: Wonder Inn -- 1. Alien -- 2. Marienville -- 3. Bronzeville -- 4. Thmei -- 5. Egypt -- 6. Washington Park -- 7. Arkestra -- 8. Immeasurable Equation -- 9. El Saturn -- 10. Isotope Teleportation -- 11. Cry of Jazz -- 12. Sputnik -- 13. Rocketry -- 14. Tomorrowland -- 15. Interplanetary Exotica -- 16. Space Music -- 17. Myth-Science -- 18. Black Man in the Cosmos -- 19. Space Is the Place -- 20. Tokens of Happiness -- 21. Continuation -- Outro: Extensions Out -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Credits and Permissions -- Index
Summary: 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 with the devoted band he called the “Arkestra.” Sun Ra took jazz from the inner city to outer space, infusing traditional swing with far-out harmonies, rhythms, and sounds. Described as the father of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra created “space music” as a means of building a better future for American blacks here on earth. A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism offers a spirited introduction to the life and work of this legendary but underappreciated musician, composer, and poet. Paul Youngquist explores and assesses Sun Ra’s wide-ranging creative output—music, public preaching, graphic design, film and stage performance, and poetry—and connects his diverse undertakings to the culture and politics of his times, including the space race, the rise of technocracy, the civil rights movement, and even space-age bachelor-pad music. By thoroughly examining the astro-black mythology that Sun Ra espoused, Youngquist masterfully demonstrates that he offered both a holistic response to a planet desperately in need of new visions and vibrations and a new kind of political activism that used popular culture to advance social change. In a nation obsessed with space and confused about race, Sun Ra aimed not just at assimilation for the socially disfranchised but even more at a wholesale transformation of American society and a more creative, egalitarian world.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prelude to Infinity -- Intro: Wonder Inn -- 1. Alien -- 2. Marienville -- 3. Bronzeville -- 4. Thmei -- 5. Egypt -- 6. Washington Park -- 7. Arkestra -- 8. Immeasurable Equation -- 9. El Saturn -- 10. Isotope Teleportation -- 11. Cry of Jazz -- 12. Sputnik -- 13. Rocketry -- 14. Tomorrowland -- 15. Interplanetary Exotica -- 16. Space Music -- 17. Myth-Science -- 18. Black Man in the Cosmos -- 19. Space Is the Place -- 20. Tokens of Happiness -- 21. Continuation -- Outro: Extensions Out -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Credits and Permissions -- Index

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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 with the devoted band he called the “Arkestra.” Sun Ra took jazz from the inner city to outer space, infusing traditional swing with far-out harmonies, rhythms, and sounds. Described as the father of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra created “space music” as a means of building a better future for American blacks here on earth. A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism offers a spirited introduction to the life and work of this legendary but underappreciated musician, composer, and poet. Paul Youngquist explores and assesses Sun Ra’s wide-ranging creative output—music, public preaching, graphic design, film and stage performance, and poetry—and connects his diverse undertakings to the culture and politics of his times, including the space race, the rise of technocracy, the civil rights movement, and even space-age bachelor-pad music. By thoroughly examining the astro-black mythology that Sun Ra espoused, Youngquist masterfully demonstrates that he offered both a holistic response to a planet desperately in need of new visions and vibrations and a new kind of political activism that used popular culture to advance social change. In a nation obsessed with space and confused about race, Sun Ra aimed not just at assimilation for the socially disfranchised but even more at a wholesale transformation of American society and a more creative, egalitarian world.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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