A pioneer of «Afrofuturism,» bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big band. While attending Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, he had an out of body experience during which he was transported into outer space. coque samsung gala y a10 As biographer John Szwed records him coque samsung j3 2016 or saying, «my whole body changed into something else. I landed on a planet that I identified as Saturn.» While there, aliens with «little antenna on each ear. A little antenna on each eye» instructed him to drop out of college and speak through his music. And that’s just what he did, changing his name from Herman Blount and never looking back.
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Luckily for us, some sly student captured one of those lectures on tape.
Henry Dumas: Poetry for My People eds. Hale Charfield Eugene Redmond, Carbondale: coque samsung a8 2018 silicone Southern Illinois University Press 1971
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro American Writing, eds. Leroi Jones Larry Neal, New York: William Morrow 1968
David Livingston: Missionary Travels
Theodore P. Ford: God coque samsung cover x 3 Wills the Negro
Stylus, vol. 13, no. 1 (Spring 1971), Temple University
John S. Wilson: Jazz. Where It Came From, Where It’s At, United States Information Agency
Yosef A. A. Ben coque samsung galaxy a3 desigual Jochannan: Black Man of the Nile and His Family, Alkibu Ian Books 1972
Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney: The Ruins, or, coque en silicone samsung galaxy a10 Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires, and the amazon coque samsung trend 2 lite Law of Nature, London: Pioneer Press 1921
The Source Book of Man’s Life and Death (Ra’s description; = The King James Bible)
Pjotr Demianovitch Ouspensky: A New Model of the Universe. Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art, New York: Knopf 1956
Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language. An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages, ed. Lancelot Hogben, New York: Norton Co. 1944
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I recommend you get in touch with the Hinds brothers, who published a Sun Ra Research, for a decade or so().
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