Ebook: Space is the place: the lives and times of Sun Ra
Author: Sun Ra, Szwed John F
- Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Composers & Musicians, Jazz musicians--United States, MUSIC--Instruction & Study--Theory, Jazz musicians, Biography, Biographies, Sun Ra, Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians, MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory, United States
- Year: 1997
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- City: New York;United States
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
Incarnations of the Intergalactic Arkestra. His repertoire ranging from boogie-woogie, swing, and bebop to free form, fusion, and whatever, Sun Ra was above all a paragon of contradictions: profundity and vaudeville; technical pianistic virtuosity and irony; assiduous attention to arrangements and encouragement of collective improvisation; respect for tradition and celebration of the fresh. Some might have been bemused by his Afro-Platonic neo-hermeticism; others might.;Sun Ra - a/k/a Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount - was born in Alabama on May 22, 1914. But like Father Divine and Elijah Muhammad, he made a lifelong effort to obscure many of the facts of his early life. After years as a rehearsal pianist for nightclub revues and in blues and swing bands, including Wynonie Harris's and Fletcher Henderson's, Sun Ra set out in the 1950s to find a way to impart his views about the galaxy, black people, and spiritual matters through the various.;Have laughed at his egregious excesses. But Sun Ra was at once the last of the great romantic composers, one of the premier avant-gardists of the latter half of the twentieth century, and a black cultural nationalist who extended Afrocentrism from ancient Egypt to the heavens.
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