Sun Ras Chicago
Sun Ras Chicago Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. In Sun Ra's Chicago, William Sites brings this visionary musician back…
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Sun Ras Chicago
Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. In Sun Ra's Chicago, William Sites brings this visionary musician back to earth--specifically to the city's South Side, where from 1946 to 1961 he lived and launched his career. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an interstellar cosmology that claimed the planet Saturn as his true home.
It was also an unruly musical crossroads where styles circulated and mashed together in clubs and community dancehalls. The postwar South Side was a hotbed of unorthodox religious and cultural activism where Afrocentric philosophies flourished, storefront prophets sold "dream-book bibles," and Elijah Muhammad was building the Nation of Islam. Sun Ra drew from a vast