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 (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-01
ISBN: 0945323077
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: WhiteWalls
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Book Review: An Indispensable Text
Summary: 5 Stars
The discovery of these texts in 2000 and their excellent and faithful reproduction in this edition have marked a new era in Sun Ra scholarship, and another key text in Black cultural production saved from the ashes.
They were found in a chest in a house slated for demolition in Chicago marked with the words "One of Everything" in Ra's handwriting, which would have made a nice title for the text, except that coming from a figure like Ra, any declaration of the wholeness or completeness of an archive/discography sounds more like a taunt. For years Ra's intellectual and theological formation in Birmingham, and then Chicago, has been a guesswork. While lovers of Sun Ra's music have spent years tracing the emergence of Ra's revolutionary sound from New York to its bebop/hardbop origins in Chicago, listening to every note and unpressed arrangement for the moment of transition, a similar archival work has been scarcely possible in tracing the development of Ra's discourse, which plays an integral role in the music.
While the broadsheets offer few definitive answers, they will become the source text for this and many other questions of Ra's intellectual formation. They are also in themselves a powerful literary work, and read like something between Nietzsche's aphorisms and a pentecostal Ishmael Reed.
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