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100 1 $aYoungquist, Paul,$eauthor.
245 12 $aA pure solar world :$bSun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism /$cPaul Youngquist.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aAustin :$bUniversity of Texas Press,$c2016.
264 4 $c©2016
300 $aviii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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490 1 $aDiscovering America
505 0 $aPrelude 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 311-321), discography (pages 323-331) and index.
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.
600 00 $aSun Ra.
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650 0 $aJazz musicians$vBiography.
650 0 $aJazz$xHistory and criticism.
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650 7 $aJazz musicians.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00982205
650 7 $aMUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aMUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aBiographies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919896
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830 0 $aDiscovering America series.
852 00 $bmus$hML410.S978$iY68 2016
852 00 $bbar$hML410.S978$iY68 2016