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Space is the place /

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Jazz musician Sun Ra returns to Earth, after being reported lost after his last European tour, and focuses his concern on the fate of humanity and the rights of African Americans.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sun Ra (Composer, Actor, Conductor, Instrumentalist, arranger of music,)
Corporate Author: Intergalactic Myth-Science Solar Arkestra
Other Authors: Smith, Joshua (Screenwriter) (Screenwriter), Johnson, Ray (Actor) (Actor), Brooks, Christopher (Christopher S.) (Actor), Deloney, Barbara (Actor), Leder, Erika (Actor), Bailey, John (Actor), Brewer, Clarence (Actor), Burns, Walter (Actor), Upton, Morgan, 1930-1991 (Actor), Ayala, Sinthia (Actor), Stallings, La Shaa (Actor), Parker, Tiny (Actor)
Format: Video DVD CD
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: San Francisco : Harte Recordings, [2014]
Edition:40th anniversary edition.
Subjects:
Sun Ra > Drama.
African American jazz musicians > Drama.
Race relations > Drama.
Sun Ra.
African American jazz musicians.
Race relations.
Science fiction films.
Blaxploitation films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Motion picture music.
Jazz.
Film soundtracks.
Drama.
Table of Contents:
  • Uncut version (with optional audio commentary by producer Jim Newman; 82 min.)
  • Original version (65 min.)
  • Home movies (silent; 8 min.) (1971).
  • Soundtrack: It's after the end of the world (3:28)
  • Under different stars (3:58)
  • Discipline 33 (3:24)
  • Watusa (7:14)
  • Calling planet Earth (3:07)
  • I am the alter-destiny (1:12)
  • Satellites are spinning (2:35)
  • Cosmic forces (3:11)
  • Outer Spaceways Incorporated (3:03)
  • We travel the spaceways (2:31)
  • The overseer (3:08)
  • Blackman/Love in outer space (16:55)
  • Mysterious crystal (5:55)
  • I am the brother of the wind (5:56)
  • We'll wait for you (4:15)
  • Space is the place (4:29)
  • Jimmy Fey interviews Ra (2:05)
  • Sonny Ray at nightclub (2:26).
  • Book: Space is still the place : foreword / by Wayne Coyen
  • Introduction / by David Katznelson
  • Some thoughts on space / by Jim Newman
  • I shot Sun Ra / by Seth Hill
  • Tales from "space" / by Tom Bullock
  • The director's memoirs / by John Coney
  • Excerpt from Music as fuel / by John Szwed
  • The cosmic overseer / Robby Phillips interviews Ray Johnson
  • A letter / from Sun Ra to Jim Newman
  • Photographs from Space is the place
  • Credits
  • About the soundtrack.