ISBN:
9780226732107
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022673210X
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9780226732077
,
022673207X
Language:
English
Pages:
313 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele, Karten
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23 cm
Series Statement:
Historical studies of urban America
DDC:
781.65092
Keywords:
Sun Ra
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Sun Ra
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Geschichte 1946-1961
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Afrofuturismus
;
African American musicians Biography
;
Afrofuturism
;
Jazz History and criticism
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Chicago, Ill.
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South Side (Chicago, Ill History 20th century
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Biografie
;
Biografie
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Biografie
;
Biografie
Abstract:
Urban routes, utopian pathways -- Birmingham. Downtown sounds ; Industrial school to territory band -- Leadership dreams -- Chicago. South Side music scene ; "Sound so loud it will wake up the dead" ; Utopian Chicago ; African space ; Wonder Inn, 1960 -- Lineages/legacies
Abstract:
"William T. Sites details the life of visionary musician Sun Ra in Chicago, from 1946 until 1961. Sun Ra's South Side was a site of unorthodox religious and cultural activism where Afrocentric philosophies flourished, storefront prophets sold "dream-book bibles," and Elijah Muhammad was building the Nation of Islam. It was also an unruly musical crossroads where styles circulated and mashed together in clubs and community dancehalls. Sun Ra drew from a vast array of intellectual sources (radical nationalism, antinomian Christianity, black mythology, and science fiction) and from multiple musical traditions (swing, jazz, blues, Latin dance music, "space-age pop," and other exotica) to promulgate visions of the city that did not conform to the orthodoxies of metropolitan elites, black or white
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