title: A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism (Discovering America)
author: Paul Youngquist
description: "Youngquist has published an excellent critical take on Sun Ras creation myth and its relation to broader currents of Americas postwar social imaginary. " (<i>PopMatters</i> 2016-12-08)<br /><br />"[Youngquist] writes with spirited engagement: like much of the best writing on Sun Ra, he is an unapologetic convert, and there is a winning evangelism to his analysis. . . . his writing is fired by the sense that Sun Ra's musical metaphysic truly matters in the here and now." (<i>The Wire</i> 2017-02-01)<br /><br />"The title is well chosen. Sun Ras legacy is as much the vision of another world, and another way of being, as it is a unique approach to music. . . . [His] relationship with pop culture is equally fascinating and the impact he made on a wide range of artists who achieved far greater mainstream commercial success . . . is significant to say the least. Youngquists prose is vivid and concise, making a subject some might still find forbidding anything but. A welcome invitation to the spaceways." (<i>Jazzwise</i>)<br /><br />"Sun Ra left Earth a better place than he found it. Youngquists deep dive into this art is creative, discursive, and probing. . . . A strictly formal critique of the musician would have generated its own insights, but by pulling the music of Sun Ra into its broader context, Youngquist engages readers in something grander. Theyboth Sun Ra and Youngquistgive the contentious politics of resistance, the starlit frontiers of imagination, and the contours of hope a fresh look. As Sun Ra would agree, it is only a fresh look at our world that will rocket people to a new and more splendid universe." (<i>Rain Taxi</i> 2017-05-01)<br /><br />"I am bowled over. Youngquist explainsbetter than anyone before and, in many particular regards, for the first timehow Sun Ras poetically logical illogic and musically purposeful nothingness offered, and offers, a pathway for escaping the often-degrading experience of being African American in America. Youngquist dances seamlessly between hip insider talk and scholarly observation, between fiction and history, between celebration and criticism. This book is terrific, sensational. What a delight." (Barry Kernfeld, editor of <cite>The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz</cite> and author of <cite>What to Listen for in Jazz</cite>)<br /><br />"A Pure Solar World is a major accomplishment. Working through the tangle of incomplete and misleading information surrounding Sun Ra and Saturn Records, Paul Youngquist provides the most thoroughly researched work on Sun Ra to be published in recent years. To anyone with a serious interest in comprehending the Ra universe, this volume will be an invaluable guide." (Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University, author of Integral Music: Languages of African-American Innovation)
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  # Order of the Black Sun
  
  
  ### Books 22 - 24
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Preston William Child
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [The Einstein Equation