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A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism (Discovering America),New
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Surveying the range of Sun Ras extraordinary creativity, this book explores how the father of Afrofuturism brought space music to a planet in need of transformation, supporting the aspirations of black people in an inhospitable white world.Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows, he pioneered freeform improvisation in an ensemble setting with the devoted band he called the Arkestra. Sun Ra took jazz from the inner city to outer space, infusing traditional swing with farout harmonies, rhythms, and sounds. Described as the father of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra created space music as a means of building a better future for American blacks here on earth.A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism offers a spirited introduction to the life and work of this legendary but underappreciated musician, composer, and poet. Paul Youngquist explores and assesses Sun Ras wideranging creative outputmusic, public preaching, graphic design, film and stage performance, and poetryand connects his diverse undertakings to the culture and politics of his times, including the space race, the rise of technocracy, the civil rights movement, and even spaceage bachelorpad music. By thoroughly examining the astroblack mythology that Sun Ra espoused, Youngquist masterfully demonstrates that he offered both a holistic response to a planet desperately in need of new visions and vibrations and a new kind of political activism that used popular culture to advance social change. In a nation obsessed with space and confused about race, Sun Ra aimed not just at assimilation for the socially disfranchised but even more at a wholesale transformation of American society and a more creative, egalitarian world.
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