Pathways to Unkown Worlds: El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68 - Brossura

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9780945323105: Pathways to Unkown Worlds: El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68

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ISBN 10: 0945323107 ISBN 13: 9780945323105

Casa editrice: Whitewalls Inc, 2007

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Philosopher, Afro-futurist, and jazz legend Sun Ra (1914–93) constructed much of his complicated public persona during his sojourn in Chicago in the mid-1950s. Working with a still-shadowy underground fraternal organization, Ra amassed a library of books on the occult, Egyptology, race studies, Theosophy, and religion—all in service of drawing elliptical connections between these disparate bodies of knowledge. This work became the foundation of the personal mythology Ra employed in the 1960s when he began fronting his Myth-Science Arkestra and started drawing attention from more mainstream jazz fans.
Pathways to Unknown Worlds presents a kaleidoscopic range of materials from those years, including original record cover designs and production materials, paper ephemera, and photographs. These materials—most previously unseen—dramatically flesh out the story of Sun Ra’s mystical journey of discovery and his lofty goals for the dissemination of his new knowledge; they are certain to fascinate and delight Ra’s legion of fans.

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John Corbett is a widely recognized jazz scholar and a former artistic director of the Berlin Jazz Festival. He teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.Anthony Elms is the editor of WhiteWalls and the assistant director of Gallery 400, and he has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Terri Kapsalis is a Chicago-based writer and performer and a founding member of Theater Oobleck. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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