Sun Ra

Authors

90.9 WMPG FM

Files

Description

WMPG celebrates the lives of Black men and women throughout the month of February. Sun Ra was a prolific jazz composer and orchestra leader who released more than one hundred albums. He was a central figure of Afro-Futurism, expanding the horizons Black people could reach.

Publisher

90.9 WMPG FM

City

Portland, Maine

Keywords

Musician, Jazz, Black History Month

Disciplines

African American Studies | Africana Studies | African History | American Art and Architecture | American Film Studies | American Literature | American Popular Culture | American Studies | Art and Design | Children's and Young Adult Literature | Contemporary Art | Creative Writing | Cultural History | Digital Humanities | English Language and Literature | Fashion Design | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Fiction | Film and Media Studies | Film Production | Fine Arts | Hip Hop Studies | History | History of Gender | History of Religion | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Holocaust and Genocide Studies | Intellectual History | Interdisciplinary Arts and Media | Islamic World and Near East History | Labor History | Latin American History | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America | Literature in English, British Isles | Literature in English, North America | Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority | Modern Literature | Music | Music Performance | Nonfiction | Oral History | Other American Studies | Other Arts and Humanities | Other English Language and Literature | Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Other Film and Media Studies | Other History | Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Other Music | Poetry | Political History | Public History | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Radio | Screenwriting | Social History | United States History | Visual Studies | Women's History | Women's Studies

Recommended Citation

90.9 WMPG FM, "Sun Ra" (2020). Black History Month Segments. 17.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/wmpg_bhm/17