In the Spring of 1971 Herman “Sonny” Blount, aka Sun Ra, was artist-in-residence at the University of Califonia at Berkeley, where he offered a lecture course, variably described as African-American Studies 198, “The Black Man in the Universe”, or “The Black Man In the Cosmos,” or perhaps it was AAS 171. 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.
Supposedly enrollment was sparse, but the classes filled up anyway as folks wandered in off the streets, and Berkeley back then (and perhaps now) didn’t mind civilian walk-ins. Ra would lecture for the first part of the class, then treat everybody to keyboard solos, or perhaps Arkestra performances for the second half.
Pencils sharpened? Here’s what’s believed to be the sole existing recording of one of those lectures:
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Dear Sir,
Can you tell me where / how you got this magnificent recording? I would like to reference it accurately for my research. Thanks so much for sharing it.
-Kelly Gabron
The .mp3 -file of Sun Ra’s Berkeley 1971 lecture has disappeared – can you add that again? Would be appreciated, by me and many others!
It’s back online now! Thanks for your patience!
I can’t wait to listen. we used to go to shows in a small club in Toronto the band would play well beyond closing time. Watching him push the envelope was magical.
The MP3 file isn’t loading for me. It just hangs.
Hmmm…just looks, it’s working for me. It’s a big file, took about 5-10 seconds to appear. We’re working on improving our audio presentations…
More here: http://www.ubu.com/sound/ra.html
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Can you add the audio again I cant get it
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