Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
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Born Herman Poole Blount in Alabama in 1914, he reinvented himself in the 1950s as Sun Ra, the great surrealist of jazz whose free-form performances with his Arkestra amply justified the description "'jspace music." His mystical beliefs were equally avant-garde; Yale professor John Szwed sympathetically explains some fairly far-out notions as "driven by a hunger for totality that only music could express." Szwed recovers the biographical facts Sun Ra was often at pains to obscure, without losing sight of the overriding role imagination played in this visionary life.
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The New York Times Book Review, Brent Staples
... Szwed has produced a rare jazz biography--one that takes full account of the history that shaped the music and its central personalities. An anthropologist, historian and musicologist who teaches at Yale, Szwed brings an impressive array of skills to this job. He needs them all to track down a subject whose every word seems intended to protect him from scrutiny.
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edition.
Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra,John F. Szwed,Da Capo Press,0306808552,Biography,Biography & Autobiography,Biography / Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Composers & Musicians - General,Composers & Musicians - Jazz,Genres & Styles - Jazz,Jazz musicians,People of Color,Sun Ra,United States
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