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It’s Black History Month, so is there a better time to discuss the space music of Sun Ra? Stick to the facts and you have in Herman Poole Blount (Ra’s birth name) a highly prolific and influential black musician. Take the artist at his word and you have a being from another planet, come to Earth to save us with a message of cosmic liberation.
As always, it’s best to tread a middle path between the reality and the myth. In this post we’ll explore Sun Ra’s origins and contributions, as well as just what Afrofuturism is all about. So don your favorite space robe and light-up Egyptian headpiece because we’ve quite the celestial crash course ahead of us.
Space Music: Parliament Funkadelic and the P-Funk Mothership
by Robert Lamb | January 14, 2010
At this point in the Space Music series, we must turn our attention to the P-Funk Mothership AKA the Holy Mothership. You probably know this as the vaguely Apollo-esque UFO that P-funk icon George Clinton emerged from onstage during live performances of Parliament Funkadelic. But it is so much more. Click into the funk to you’ll get a crash course in the mythology, as well as tie-ins to actual science.
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