profile
NNDB
This is a beta version of NNDB
Search: for

Sun Ra

Jazz Musician, Pianist, Composer (22-May-1914 — 30-May-1993)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS


Robert L. Campbell. The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra. North Country Distributors. 1994. 252pp.

John Corbett (editor). The Wisdom of Sun-Ra: Sun Ra's Polemical Broadsheets and Streetcorner Leaflets. WhiteWalls. 2006. 141pp.

John Corbett; Anthony Elms; Glenn Ligon; Terri Kapsalis. Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun-Ra, El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-futurist Underground, 1954-68. WhiteWalls. 2007. 128pp.

Graham Lock. Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Duke University Press. 1999. 314pp.

John F. Szwed. Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra. Da Capo Press. 1998. 496pp.


AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

  1. NNDB [link]

  2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

  3. Internet Movie Database [link]

  4. Wikipedia [link]

  5. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th Edition (p.1000)




Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile



Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications