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Sun Ra's Chicago : Afrofuturism & the city
- Title
- Sun Ra's Chicago : Afrofuturism & the city / William Sites.
- Author
- Sites, William
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- 313 pages : illustrations, maps, music; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Historical studies of urban America
- Uniform Title
- Historical studies of urban America.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-568
- ISBN
- 9780226732077
- 022673207X
- LCCN
- 2020007541
- OCLC
- 1142893055
- Author
- Sites, William, author.
- Title
- Sun Ra's Chicago : Afrofuturism & the city / William Sites.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Historical studies of urban AmericaHistorical studies of urban America.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-568