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BOOK
Title Space is the place : the lives and times of Sun Ra / John Szwed
Imprint Durham : Duke University Press, 2020
©1997

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 Stadsbibl:Ljusets kalender vån 2 Konst, foto, musik, film, teater, sport  780.92 Sun Ra engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript xxxiv, 476 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations 24 cm
Note "This is a paperback re-issue of the 1997 hardcover title published by Pantheon"--Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-425), discography (pages 427-448), and index
"Sun Ra--a/k/a Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount--was born in Alabama on May 22, 1914. But like Father Divine and Elijah Muhammad, he made a lifelong effort to obscure many of the facts of his early life. After years as a rehearsal pianist for nightclub revues and in blues and swing bands, including Wynonie Harris's and Fletcher Henderson's, Sun Ra set out in the 1950s to find a way to impart his values about the galaxy, Black people, and spiritual matters through the various incarnations of the Intergalactic Arkestra. His repertoire ranging from boogie-woogie, swing, and bebop to free form, fusion, and whatever, Sun Ra was above all a paragon of contradictions: profundity and vaudeville; technical pianistic virtuosity and irony; assiduous attention to arrangements and encouragement of collective improvisation; respect for tradition and celebration of the fresh"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Sun Ra
Sun Ra.
Jazz
Tonsättare
Jazzmusiker
Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography
Composers -- United States -- Biography
Jazz -- History and criticism
Musiciens de jazz -- États-Unis -- Biographies
Compositeurs -- États-Unis -- Biographies
Composers.
Jazz.
Jazz musicians.
United States.
Biografier
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Classmark 781.65092
ISBN/ISSN 9781478008415 häftad
9781478012054 (ebok)
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