The Wisdom of Sun Ra: Sun Ra's Polemical Broadsheets and Streetcorner Leaflets
by Sun Ra
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Author: Sun RaEditor: Anthony Elms
Editor: John Corbett
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-01
ISBN: 0945323077
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: WhiteWalls
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Book Review: The Reach For A Better World
Summary: 4 Stars
Being that he was a freejazz pioneer, Sun Ra was also naturally a deepspace thinker. This book collects a bunch of early dispatches directly from the uniquely racially and numerically-obsessed mind of one of the true greats of modern music. This is a dimension only hinted at in his song lyrics. It is full-on cosmic weirdness to the highest degree. The book is equally as "unreadable" as his music is "unlistenable". It taps a vein that, thank god, very few of us have access to and it shines a bright light on some of what made this complex man tick. Up until now, his primarily white audiences probably have had no clue what he was really about, unless they happened to catch his low-budge cultfilm "Space is the Place". Here, his apparent frustrations about being black in America are turned into kooky political/religious ranting prose and his fascination with numbers is woven in as if it were just part of the same sort of cosmic conversation. Madness or genius? You decide. Bonus: the book features nice scans of the original, typed papers, plus much more legible transcriptions. It's a lot to ask of a reader, but also a cool supplement to the available music. It is a very short read, thus the less-than-best rating.
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