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Sun Ra: A Profile

Peter Blouw

Published: 2010-08-25

A short biography of the improviser Sun Ra that examines the impact and significance of his performance practices within the context of arguments favoring the social implications of improvised music.

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Listening itself, an improvisative act engaged in by everyone, announces a practice of active engagement with the world, where we sift, interpret, store and forget, in parallel with action and fundamentally articulated with it ("Mobilitas Animi" 113).

– George E. Lewis