Afrofuturism and the City
by William Sites
- Auteur(s)
- William Sites
- Uitgever, jaar
- Chicago : University of Chcago, 2020
- Omvang
- 314 p., geïllustreerd, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780226732107
Sun Ra (1914–93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an interstellar cosmology that claimed the planet Saturn as his true home. In ‘Sun Ra’s Chicago’ , William Sites dives into the life of the visionary, specifically during his stay in the city’s South Side (1946 to 1961) where he relaunched his career. The postwar South Side was a hotbed of unorthodox religious and cultural activism: 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 the man then known as Sonny Blount drew from an array of intellectual and musical sources - from radical nationalism, revisionist Christianity, and science fiction to jazz, blues, Latin dance music, and pop exotica - to construct a philosophy and performance style that imagined a new identity and future for African Americans. ‘ Sun Ra’s Chicago’ shows that late twentieth-century Afrofuturism emerged from a deep, utopian engagement with the city.
- Locatie in de bibliotheek
- Kast 29 - 4: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; zwarte kunst en cultuur
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