SIGNED The Execution of Sun Ra The Mysterious Tale of a Dark Body Sent to Earth

Description: The Execution of Sun Ra : The Mysterious Tale of a Dark Body Sent to Earth to Usher in an Unprecedented Era of Cosmic Regeneration and Happiness (Volume II) by Thomas Stanley. Wasteland Press, Shelbyville, 2014. Illustrated 241 page first edition trade paperback in new condition. Book is signed by the author (see photo). "One thing I learned from Sun Ra is that you take him lightly at your own peril. He spoke of serious things, and needs to be taken seriously. The time is right for a new book on Ra, and Thomas Stanley’s is the right book. You can never be certain with Sun Ra, but I’m betting he’d have loved it."-John Szwed, author of Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra"Sun Ra has an intrinsic instinct of music as language…there is a sense of language being transmitted as code – and this also translates from a trans-African type of construct to something that could be construed as signals being sent in outer space…he turns everything upside down in a gnostic type of way, and his synthesis is one of the few and unique blends of jazz and mysticism." Matthew Shipp, pianist, composer, bandleader. Thomas Stanley is a writer, audio activist and scholar. He received his doctorate for research documenting the unique compositional strategies of Butch Morris. He is coauthor of George Clinton and P-Funk: An Oral History. He has taught radical black music, sound art and critical theory at the University of Maryland and George Mason University. $3.99 domestic U.S. shipping. Payment must be received within 24 hours of sale.

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