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Title A pure solar world : Sun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism / Paul Youngquist.
Author Youngquist, Paul, author.
Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
©2016
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  781.65092 SUNRA    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Discovering America
Contents Prelude to infinity -- Intro : Wonder Inn -- Alien -- Marienville -- Bronzeville -- Thmei -- Egypt -- Washington Park -- Arkestra -- Immeasurable equation -- El Saturn -- Isotope teleportation -- Cry of jazz -- Sputnik -- Rocketry -- Tomorrowland -- Interplanetary exotica -- Space music -- Myth science -- Black man in the cosmos -- Space is the place -- Tokens of happiness -- Continuation -- Outro : extensions out.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
Subject Sun Ra.
Jazz musicians -- Biography.
Jazz -- History and criticism.
ISBN 9780292726369 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : $27.95
0292726368 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
Gov't Document No. Z UA380.8 Y882pu txdocs
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