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Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City by William Sites, PB, 2020, NEW Copy
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- Condition
- Subject Area
- Music, Social Science, History
- Book Title
- Sun Ra's Chicago
- ISBN-13
- 9780226732107
- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education, High School, Middle School, Vocational School
- Personalized
- No
- Level
- Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Subject
- History & Criticism, United States / 20th Century, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Genres & Styles / Jazz
- ISBN
- 9780226732107
- Publication Name
- Sun Ra's Chicago : Afrofuturism and the City
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Series
- Historical Studies of Urban America Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 16.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 328 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022673210X
ISBN-13
9780226732107
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038660902
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Publication Name
Sun Ra's Chicago : Afrofuturism and the City
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Subject
History & Criticism, United States / 20th Century, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Genres & Styles / Jazz
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music, Social Science, History
Series
Historical Studies of Urban America Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2020-007541
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One of the ten best Chicago books of 2020 . Plenty of books have been written about Afrofuturist pioneer Sun Ra and his Arkestra, but Sites is the first to make Chicago his co-protagonist. . . . Sites provides crucial context on how Chicago's Afrocentrist philosophy, religion, and jazz scenes helped turn Blount into Sun Ra. , Sites's project in this work is to get back to this future city by understanding Sun Ra's geographic, intellectual, and galactic journeys. . . . Sites's considerable skills as an urban cartographer help to further remap Chicago. . . . In Sites's analysis, Sun Ra's work continues to rethink the U.S. city., Like its subject, Sun-Ra's Chicago is a category buster--social history, musicology, urban studies, hermeneutics, cultural reclamation--and as such, a revelation. Sites tells a story of countercultural ferment in 1950s south side Chicago that is detailed and provocative. Sun Ra, Alton Abraham, and the members and friends of the Arkestra were truly a 'creative class' long before that term, as we know it, was coined., Sun Ra's Chicago is a masterful account of the musician's formative years. Sites deftly applies a wider lens to his biography, analyzing the urban spaces and networks that shaped Sonny Blount's transformation from an itinerant musician into the otherworldly philosophical leader of the Arkestra. This book is essential reading not only for Sun Ra listeners but for readers interested in the crosscurrents of Black intellectual thought and the utopian possibilities, past and present, of America's cities., Four stars. A must-read for fans of the musician and his city. . . . Fascinating and thoroughly readable. . . Sites makes the engaging argument that the idiosyncratic jazz legend's penchant for interplanetary journeys and African American utopia was in fact inspired by urban life right on Earth., One of the most unique books to ever look at the music of Sun Ra. . . Digs very deep into Ra's early years - time that isn't covered in as much details as in other projects - and the book paints a picture of the city that's as vivid as the jazz legend himself. . . Sites comes at the project from a different perspective than most music writers - which makes for a very fresh volume that may well open up whole new territory in the exploration of jazz and community., "Highly readable. . . What Sites is good at is the detail of the period. . . He is good, too, on the economics of segregation, the racial divisions of the American working class, and the role of the black establishment. . . But best of all, especially to musicians and jazz fans, he is great about the musical life of Chicago, the Pershing and Du Sable venues, and the Jim Crow squalor of Calumet City, the sin suburb of Chicago. Where this book really scores is in its investigation of the sheer "otherness "of Sun Ra.", Like its subject, Sun Ra's Chicago is a category buster--social history, musicology, urban studies, hermeneutics, cultural reclamation--and as such, a revelation. Sites tells a story of countercultural ferment in 1950s south side Chicago that is detailed and provocative. Sun Ra, Alton Abraham, and the members and friends of the Arkestra were truly a 'creative class' long before that term, as we know it, was coined., Not the launching point for an introduction to the life of Sun Ra, but rather a deeper dive into the city life and utopian vision informing his work and philosophy, emphasizing that (Urban) Space Is the Place., Highly readable. . . What Sites is good at is the detail of the period. . . He is good, too, on the economics of segregation, the racial divisions of the American working class, and the role of the black establishment. . . But best of all, especially to musicians and jazz fans, he is great about the musical life of Chicago, the Pershing and Du Sable venues, and the Jim Crow squalor of Calumet City, the sin suburb of Chicago. Where this book really scores is in its investigation of the sheer 'otherness 'of Sun Ra., An important contribution. . . Sites draws on an impressive number of disciplines to ground Ra's spacebound theatrics in material history. . . . He cites work from urban studies, African American studies, theology, and literary theory. . . It's difficult to imagine anyone other than Sites writing a work that demands mastery of these specific disciplines.
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
Urban Routes, Utopian Pathways Part I : Birmingham 1 Downtown Sounds 2 Industrial School to Territory Band 3 Leadership Dreams Part II : Chicago 4 South Side Music Scene 5 "Sound So Loud It Will Wake Up the Dead" 6 Utopian Chicago 7 African Space 8 Wonder Inn, 1960 Lineages/Legacies Acknowledgments Notes Index
Synopsis
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 brings this visionary musician back to earth--specifically to the city's South Side, where from 1946 to 1961 he lived and 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--and that by excavating the postwar black experience of Sun Ra's South Side milieu, we can come to see the possibilities of urban life in new ways.
LC Classification Number
ML410.S978S58 2020
Copyright Date
2020
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