TY  - BOOK
AU  - Youngquist,Paul
TI  - A pure solar world: Sun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism 
T2  - Discovering America
SN  - 9781477311172
AV  - ML410 .P874 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Sun Ra.
KW  - Afrofuturism
KW  - Jazz musicians
KW  - Biography
KW  - Jazz
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Prelude to infinity --; Intro: Wonder Inn --; Alien --; Marienville --; Bronzeville --; Thmei --; Egypt --; Washington Park --; Arkestra --; Immeasurable equation --; El Saturn --; Isotope teleportation --; Cry of jazz --; Sputnik --; Rocketry --; Tomorrowland --; Interplanetary exotica --; Space music --; Myth science --; Black man in the cosmos --; Space is the place --; Tokens of infinity --; Continuation --; Outro: Extensions out; 2; b
N2  - 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. This is 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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