A pure solar world : Sun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism
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A pure solar world : Sun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism
（Discovering America series）
University of Texas Press, c2016
1st ed
- : cloth
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注記
Bibliography: p. [311]-321
Discography: p. [323]-331
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
* Acknowledgments * 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 Infinity *21. Continuation * Outro: Extensions Out * Notes * Bibliography * Discography * Credits and Permissions * Index
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