Blutopia
Subtitle: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780822324409
Subjects: Sun Ra; History & Criticism - General; Criticism and interpretation; Music; Music/Songbooks; History and criticism; Composers & Musicians - Jazz; Genres & Styles - Jazz; African American Studies; paper; 1899-1974; Braxton, Anthony; Ellington, Duke,; Jazz
First sentence: The three quotations above point to the main themes I will be exploring in this book: music as an alternative form of history, music as the gateway to "another reality," and the self-representation of African American musicians in relation to the "invented nigger" of racial stereotyping.