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Philosopher, Afro-futurist, and jazz legend Sun Ra (1914-93) constructed much of his complicated public persona during his sojourn i n Chicago in the mid-1950s. Working with a still-shadowy underground fraternal organization, Ra amassed a library of books on the oc cult, Egyptology, race studies, Theosophy, and religion - all in service of drawing elliptical connections between these disparate b odies of knowledge. This work became the foundation of the personal mythology Ra employed in the 1960s when he began fronting his My th-Scien...[Leer más]