Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City
William Sites
The University of Chicago Press
Sun Ra. Wildly prolific. Unfailingly eccentric. Renowned for extravagant performances with his Arkestra. Sites focuses on the postwar period of 1946 to 1961 in Chicago when and where Sun Ra relaunched his career amidst a vast array of intellectual, musical, and political influences during a time of unorthodox religious and cultural activism.