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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 101
EAN: 9780945323075
ISBN: 0945323077
Label: WhiteWalls
Manufacturer: WhiteWalls
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: August 01, 2006
Publisher: WhiteWalls
Sales Rank: 98299
Studio: WhiteWalls
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From the Arkestra to his experiments with synthesizers, Sun Ra was one of the most inventive jazz musicians in history. Yet until now, there has not been a collection of his earliest writings that reveal the beginnings of his work as philosopher, mystic, and Afro-Futurist. This new volume unveils over forty newly discovered typewritten broadsheets on which Sun Ra expounded his wholly unique philosophical message.Â
While in Chicago during the mid-1950s, Sun Ra preached on street corners and occasionally created scripts to accompany his lectures—intricate texts that invoke science fiction, Biblical prophecy, etymology, and black nationalism. Until this point, the only broadsheet known to exist was one given to John Coltrane in 1956. These newly unearthed writings attest to the provocative brilliance that inspired Coltrane. Sun Ra annotated many of them by hand, and together the sheets reveal fascinating new aspects of his worldview.
The Wisdom of Sun Ra is an invaluable compendium of writings by one of the most intriguing and influential jazz figures of the century.
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Being that he was a freejazz pioneer, Sun Ra was also naturally a deepspace thinker. This book collects a bunch of early dispatches directly from the uniquely racially and numerically-obsessed mind of one of the true greats of modern music. This is a dimension only hinted at in his song lyrics. It is full-on cosmic weirdness to the highest degree. The book is equally as "unreadable" as his music is "unlistenable". It taps a vein that, thank god, very few of us have access to and it shines a ... Read More
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