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03288aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 057DA6FED2B111ED872B743748ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230404012110 008 220326t20222022waua 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2022935192 020 $a 1683966589 020 $a 9781683966586 040 $d SILO 050 4 $a NC1883.3.S86 $b A4 2022 050 4 $a ML410.S978 $b S86 2022 082 04 $a 741.66 $2 23 100 0 $a Sun Ra. 245 10 $a Sun Ra art on Saturn : $b the album cover art of Sun Ra's Saturn label / $c [edited by] Irwin Chusid and Chris Reisman ; image restorations by Barbara Economon ; designed by Laura Lindgren. 246 30 $a Art on Saturn. 246 30 $a Album cover art of Sun Ra's Saturn label. 250 $a First Fantagraphics Books edition. 264 1 $a Seattle, WA : $b Fantagraphics Books, Inc., $c 2022. 300 $a 237 pages : $b chiefly color illustrations ; $c 31 cm. 520 $a "Considered the foremost exponent of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra mastered a wide array of styles that spanned jazz, R&B, exotica, Afro-hybrids, electronic, big band, solo piano, orchestral, experimental, and chamber works. In his 45-year recording career, he issued an epic number of albums and he was one of the first Black musicians to own an independent label, which he named Saturn, after the planet on which he claimed to have been born. The covers of Saturn LPs, issued from 1957 to 1988, are iconic--some rolled off commercial printing presses but many were hand-crafted. These records were sold at concerts, club dates, and by mail order. As collectibles, original handmade Saturn covers sell for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars. More than just packaging for a slab of vinyl, they are works of art in their own right. Sun Ra: Art on Saturn is the first comprehensive collection of all Saturn printed covers, along with hundreds of the best hand-designed, one-of-a-kind sleeves and disc labels, decorated by Ra himself and members of his Arkestra. Essays by Sun Ra catalog preservationist Irwin Chusid, noted Ra scholar John Corbett, and Glenn Jones, who in the 1970s signed Ra to a distribution deal that put countless homemade covers into circulation, add unique insights into the interplanetary life and work of Sun Ra and his Saturn partner Alton Abraham. Historians have written extensively about Sun Ra and his music. This book is a tribute to the covers and to the uncredited visual artists and their rich imaginations. From the simple to the baroque to the absurd, the covers that sheathed Ra's discs reflect the tenaciousness of a genius who refused to compromise or relinquish control of his destiny."--Amazon.com. 610 20 $a Saturn Records. 600 00 $a Sun Ra. 610 20 $a Sun Ra Arkestra. 650 0 $a Sound recordings $x Album covers $v Pictorial works. 650 0 $a Afrofuturism. 650 7 $a Sound recordings $x Album covers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01127035. 655 7 $a Pictorial works. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423874. 700 1 $a Chusid, Irwin, $e editor. 700 1 $a Reisman, Chris, $e editor. 700 1 $a Economon, Barbara, $e restorationist. 700 1 $a Lindgren, Laura, $e designer. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230404020048.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=057DA6FED2B111ED872B743748ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search