The execution of Sun Ra
Subtitle: The mysterious tale of a dark body sent to Earth to usher in an unprecedented era of cosmic regeneration and happiness
By: Thomas Stanley ; editing by Kirby Malone ; indexing by Diana Haught
Publisher: Wasteland Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Shelbyville, KY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781600479977
Subjects: Jazz; Interviews; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Biography; Jazz musicians
Other titles: Mysterious tale of a dark body sent to Earth to usher in an unprecedented era of cosmic regeneration and happiness .
Description: Titled in homage to a Sun Ra pun on the double meaning of the word execute, Thomas Stanley's work offers less an exegesis of the copious legacy of the iconoclastic artist's unique cosmospeak than an active intellectual response to Sun Ra's thickly layered take on the condition and fate of intelligent life on Earth.
Notes: Includes discographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Calling planet Earth; title: Authority; title: Evolution; title: Asexual reproduction; title: Antichristos; title: Hidden fire; title: Catalytic converter; title: Over Jordan; title: Natural mystic/Native sky; title: Twins; title: Time rebel; title: Dark matter; title: Media dreams; title: Nothing is; title: Transmolecularization; title: Outerspace and spacemen; title: Sleeping Beauty/False profit; title: Somewhere there; title: Coda one/Solving for X; title: Appendix 1. The immeasurable mixtape; title: Appendix 2. Sun Ra interviewed by Thomas Stanley; title: Appendix 3. Sun Ra speaks [transcriptions from various sources].