"My Music is Words" -- The Poetics of Sun Ra

This thesis argues for a critical examination of the published writings of Le Sony'r Ra, also known as Sun Ra, a groundbreaking jazz musician and philosopher of the 20th century. Recent redistribution of Sun Ra's musical output, which includes hundreds of releases on many record labels fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bowles, Nathaniel Earl
Other Authors: English
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32031
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04292008-173116/