Paul Youngquist

A Pure Solar World

Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism

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Produktbeschreibung

Surveying the range of Sun Raâ s extraordinary creativity, this book explores how the father of Afrofuturism brought â space musicâ to a planet in need of transformation, supporting the aspirations of black people in an inhospitable white world.

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Produktdetails

• Discovering America
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9780292726369
• ISBN-10: 0292726368
• Artikelnr.: 44829163

Autorenporträt

Paul Youngquist is professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder. He writes on music, popular literature, and Caribbean history. He is the author of Cyberfiction: After the Future, among other titles.

Inhaltsangabe

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