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Sun Ra portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <197-?>
- 1970-1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Sun Ra Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sun Ra [video recording] : a joyful noise / a film by Robert Mugge.
- Moving image
- New York, N.Y. : Rhapsody Films, c1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *LVH 606 (F) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.The earthly recordings of Sun Ra / by Robert L. Campbell.
- Text
- Redwood, New York : Cadence Jazz Books ; Distributed by North Country Distributors, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *L 95-353 Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Omniverse Sun Ra : comprehensive pictorial and annotated discography, including record title index, composition index, personnel index, instrument index, Saturn record label and vinyl number index, record label index and essays, photo documents, tapeography, filmography, bibliography / Hartmut Geerken, Bernhard Hefele ; Photography by Val Wilmer.
- Text
- Wartaweil : Waitawhile, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *L 96-607 Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
New York Jazz Museum photograph collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [195-]-[197-]
- 197-197
- 34 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/6bfa5670-c6b3-012f-11a8-58d385a7bc34Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 32 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 33 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 34 Offsite Space is the place : the lives and times of Sun Ra / John F. Szwed.
- Text
- New York : Pantheon Books, c1997.
- 1997
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 97-723 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 97-668 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Blutopia : visions of the future and revisions of the past in the work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton / Graham Lock.
- Text
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1999.
- 1999
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 00-140 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 00-433 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
It's after the end of the world! Don't you know that yet? : Black creative musicians in Chicago (1946-1976) / by Thomas A. Newsome.
- Text
- 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JMD 02-1087 Offsite Sun Ra research.
- Text
- Millbrae, CA : Peter Hinds, 1995-
- 1995-present
- 4 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JMM 05-8 11-26 (Mar. 1997-Dec. 1999) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JMM 05-8 27-35 (Jan. 2000-Oct. 2001) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JMM 05-8 no. 36-40 (dates not provided) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Sun Ra quarterly.
- Text
- Millbrae, CA : Omni Press, c1996-c1997.
- 1996-1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JMK 05-3 Issue 1-5 (June 1996-June 1997) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The immeasurable equation : the collected poetry and prose / Sun Ra ; compiled and edited by James L. Wolf and Hartmut Geerken ; introductions and essays by James L. Wolf ... [et al.] ; photography by Robert Lax, Angelika Jakob.
- Text
- Wartaweil : Waitawhile, 2005.
- 2005
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Berg Coll Sun Ra I46 2005 Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 05-582 Offsite The wisdom of Sun-Ra : Sun Ra's polemical broadsheets and streetcorner leaflets / compiled and introduced by John Corbett.
- Text
- Chicago, Il. : WhiteWalls, c2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JMF 06-1822 Offsite Sun Ra collected works. vol. 1, Immeasurable equation / edited by Adam Abraham.
- Text
- Chandler, Ariz. : Phaelos Books, c2005.
- 2005
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 08-182 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
ASCAP presents the Billy Taylor interviews [sound recording] : Sun Ra ; Willie 'the lion' Smith / [interviewed by] Billy Taylor.
- Audio
- 19
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 42654 [CD] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Around New York. Margaret Leng-Tan and Robert Black [sound recording]
- Audio
- 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 43633 [CD] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Sun Ra and his myth-science Arkestra [videorecording] / une coproduction Pi Production/I.N.A. ; un film de Frank Cassenti.
- Moving image
- New York : Rhapsody Films, 1990.
- 1990-1984
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image VTH 4537 S Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Sun Ra : interviews & essays / edited by John Sinclair.
- Text
- London : Headpress, 2010.
- 2009
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JND 10-181 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Sun-Ra : traveling the spaceways : the astro black and other solar myths / edited by John Corbett, Anthony Elms, and Terri Kapsalis.
- Text
- New York, NY : WhiteWalls ; Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, [2010].
- 2010
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNF 11-255 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Picture infinity : Marshall Allen & the Sun Ra Arkestra / Sibylle Zerr.
- Text
- [Edingen-Neckarhausen] : Sibylle Zerr, 2011.
- 2011
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JND 12-10 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Sun Ra + Ayé Aton : space, interiors and exteriors, 1972 / edited by John Corbett ; forward by Glenn Ligon.
- Text
- Brooklyn, New York : PictureBox, 2013.
- 2013
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 13-1119 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sun Ra : palmiers et pyramides / Joseph Ghosn.
- Text
- Marseille : Mot et le reste, c2014.
- 2014
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JND 15-25 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Omniverse Sun Ra : comprehensive pictorial and annotated discography, including chronological discography and alphabetical record title, composition, personnel and record label indexes / Hartmut Geerken and Chris Trent ; essays, photo documents by Amiri Baraka [and 8 others] ; photography by Val Wilmer and Hartmut Geerken.
- Text
- [Essex, UK] : Art Yard, 2015.
- 2015-2015
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *L 17-1286 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Adventures in avant-pop / Bob Mielke.
- Text
- Kirksville, Missouri : Naciketas Press, 2013.
- 2013
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 18-248 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The execution of Sun Ra. Volume 2, The mysterious tale of a dark body sent to Earth to usher in an unprecedented era of cosmic regeneration and happiness / Thomas Stanley ; editing by Kirby Malone ; indexing by Diana Haught.
- Text
- Shelbyville, KY : Wasteland Press, ©2014.
- 2014
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNE 17-94 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
In a qu*A*re time and place : post-slavery temporalities, blaxploitation, and Sun Ra's Afrofuturism between Intersectionality and heterogeneity / Tim Stüttgen edited by the Tim Stüttgen Archiv.
- Text
- Berlin : B-books ; New York : Co-published with Autonomedia NY, ©2014.
- 2014
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNE 17-174 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The Wisdom of Sun Ra Collection.
- Mixed material
- circa 1950s.
- 1950-1959
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 942 box 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sun Ra : jazz messiah / by Mississippi Mahn.
- Text
- Brooklyn, New York : Rockwell Place Publishing, [2008]
- 2008
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 18-68 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sun Ra : a joyful noise / directed by Robert Mugge.
- Moving image
- New York, N.Y. : Rhapsody Films, 1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-572 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Space is the place / directed by John Coney.
- Moving image
- San Francisco : Harte Recordings, [2014]
- 2014
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Audio CD-767 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc DVD-2097 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc+ F 19-337 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Pathways to unknown worlds : Sun-Ra, El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-futurist underground 1954-68 / curated by John Corbett, Anthony Elms and Terri Kapsalis.
- Text
- Chicago : WhiteWalls, c2006.
- 2006
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JMF 07-1791 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 07-573 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The cosmo-biography of Sun Ra : the sound of joy is enlightening / Chris Raschka.
- Text
- Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2014.
- 2014
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 15-69 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A pure solar world : Sun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism / Paul Youngquist.
- Text
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
- 2016-2016
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 16-1938 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sun Ra's Chicago : Afrofuturism & the city / William Sites.
- Text
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- 2020-2020
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 21-568 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Space is the place : the lives and times of Sun Ra / John Szwed.
- Text
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
- 2020-1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNE 21-154 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Not available - Please for assistance.Sun Ra art on Saturn : the album cover art of Sun Ra's Saturn label / [edited by] Irwin Chusid and Chris Reisman ; image restorations by Barbara Economon ; designed by Laura Lindgren.
- Text
- Seattle : Fantagraphics Books, 2022.
- 2022-2022
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *LE+ 22-4728 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc+ G 23-37 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
A pure solar world : Sun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism / Paul Youngquist.
- Text
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2023.
- 2023-2016
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 23-510 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
A strange celestial road : my time in the Sun Ra Arkestra / Ahmed Abdullah with Louis Reyes Rivera.
- Text
- Brooklyn, New York : Blank Forms Editions, 2023.
- 2023
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML419.A065 S73 2023g Off-site Space is the place : the life and times of Sun Ra / John F. Szwed.
- Text
- New York : Pantheon Books, 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML410.S978 S73 1997 Off-site Sun Ra : un noir dans le cosmos / Aurélien Tchiemessom.
- Text
- Paris : L'Harmattan, [2004], ©2004.
- 2004-2004
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML410.S978 T345 2004g Off-site The wisdom of Sun-Ra : Sun Ra's polemical broadsheets and streetcorner leaflets / compiled and introduced by John Corbett.
- Text
- Chicago, Il. : WhiteWalls, c2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML410.S978 S72 2006 Off-site Sun-Ra : traveling the spaceways : the astro black and other solar myths / edited by John Corbett, Anthony Elms, and Terri Kapsalis.
- Text
- New York, NY : WhiteWalls ; Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- 2010
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML410.S978 T73 2010 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML410.S978 T73 2010 Off-site A strange celestial road : my time in the Sun Ra Arkestra / Ahmed Abdullah with Louis Reyes Rivera.
- Text
- Brooklyn, New York : Blank Forms Editions, 2023.
- 2023
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML419.A065 S73 2023 Off-site Sun Ra + Ayé Aton : space, interiors and exteriors, 1972 / edited by John Corbett ; forward by Glenn Ligon.
- Text
- Brooklyn, New York : PictureBox, 2013.
- 2013
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML88.S93 S86 2013 Off-site
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