William Sites, Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.27048Keywords:
Afrofuturism , history of jazz, Sun RaAbstract
William Sites, Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 313 pp. ISBN 9780226732107 (pbk). $30.00.
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