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For all the words portraying Sun Ra’s visionary attitude, that might be something others have projected onto him, for his real views and self-importance were th
by vr46 2y ago
For all the words portraying Sun Ra’s visionary attitude, that might be something others have projected onto him, for his real views and self-importance were the opposite of some of the suggestions written here.
For example, he objected to the late, great, Carla Bley, being in the Guild because she was a woman!
“In one meeting, Sun Ra said aloud to all the members of the group that I would sink the ship because that’s what women do. I was furious. I got up and said, ‘You son of a…’ I really yelled at him.”
- tslocum 2y agoThis quote is taken from the following interview: https://thequietus.com/interviews/carla-bley-interview/ https://thequietus.com/interviews/carla-bley-interview/ Another quote: "Sun Ra and I did get along from that point on."
- vr46 2y agoYes, after she apologized for yelling at him. I mean, he evoked sailor superstition to claim women were bad luck on a ship. Talk about old-fashioned. As far out as the music was, everything about him was fabricated, but music and mystique aside, it’s still disappointing to again see an African-American man contributing to the marginalization of women, a long tradition that ought to be understood just as well as the contribution to culture.