Space is the place : the lives and times of Sun Ra /
"Sun Ra--a/k/a Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount--was born in Alabama on May 22, 1914. But like Father Divine and Elijah Muhammad, he made a lifelong effort to obscure many of the facts of his early life. After years as a rehearsal pianist for nightclub revues and in blues and swing bands,...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2020
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