Sun Ra, Berkeley lecture from 1971

[Joe]

"Sensitive Skin’s Sir Andre Bemler writes about the release of a rare recording of a Sun Ra lecture during his stint as a Berkeley professor in 1971—Herman “Sonny” Blount was artist-in-residence at the University of California campus that spring, and apparently taught a course listed as “Sun Ra 171” but also called “The Black Man in the Universe,” or “The Black Man In the Cosmos.”"

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/05/listen-to-sun-ras-berkeley-lecture/

Direct link: http://blog.sensitiveskinmagazine.com/2011/professor-sun-ra/

Edited May 9, 2011 by Joe

[sidewinder]

“Apparently there was always some confusion regarding the course, and students had difficulty in picking up books from the required reading list, although one listing, The Source Book of Man’s Life and Death (i.e, The Bible, ‘King James’), whose author was listed as ‘God,’ was available from ‘numerous’ publishers.”

Love it !

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

this came out on of of Tranceparency's sets a while back. very interesting to hear

[jostber]

Here's a couple of more links with the book reference list:

http://blog.sensitiveskinmagazine.com/2011/professor-sun-ra/

http://homepage.uab.edu/moudry/sunra171.htm

[jazzbo]

When I heard that lecture on Transparency I decided not to pursue Sun Ra's philosophical thoughts because it turned me off and away from him. His shtick seemed so full of nonsense, especially his word derivation thing. I've followed that direction away from his spoken or written philosophy, happily.