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100 1 _aYoungquist, Paul,
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245 1 0 _aA pure solar world :
_bSun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism /
_cPaul Youngquist.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c(c)2016.
300 _a1 online resource (viii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :
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336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aDiscovering America
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505 0 0 _aPrelude to infinity --
_tIntro: Wonder Inn --
_tAlien --
_tMarienville --
_tBronzeville --
_tThmei --
_tEgypt --
_tWashington Park --
_tArkestra --
_tImmeasurable equation --
_tEl Saturn --
_tIsotope teleportation --
_tCry of jazz --
_tSputnik --
_tRocketry --
_tTomorrowland --
_tInterplanetary exotica --
_tSpace music --
_tMyth science --
_tBlack man in the cosmos --
_tSpace is the place --
_tTokens of infinity --
_tContinuation --
_tOutro: Extensions out.
520 8 _aSun 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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600 0 0 _aSun Ra.
650 0 _aAfrofuturism.
650 0 _aJazz musicians
_vBiography.
650 0 _aJazz
_xHistory and criticism.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1346883&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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