LEROI JONES A Black Mass LP '68 SUN RA/Amiri Baraka
  $   272

 


$ 272 Sold For
Apr 19, 2005 Sold Date
Apr 12, 2005 Start Date
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Monster rarity! Very tiny private ressing on Jihad label. Here's a bit of info....."The play A Black Mass was written in Harlem in 1965, much of it probably at my desk at The Black Arts Repertory Theater School at West 130th Street and Lenox (now Malcolm X. Blvd.). It was first performed at the RKO Proctors Theater, Newark as a companion piece to J-E-L-L-O, a satire on the Jack Benny show where Rochester turns militant. The reason it was Newark is because late in 1965, I decided to walk away from the BARTS because with the mounting internal strife, the phoneomenon of 'diminishing returns' had set in so disruptively that the vision of bringing Black Art into the community and creating what we were later to understand as Cultural Revolution could no longer succeed at that venue. Black Mass shows the heavy influence of the Nation of Islam even though, after Malcolm's murder, I became alienated from that Nation, essentially as a means of registering my allegiance to Malcolm. Even the Jacoub story I had gotten from Malcolm when he was still more directly motivated by Elijah Muhammad's teachings. Sun Ra was one of the most consistent and supportive artists associated with the BARTS. He was there several days a week, teaching all who would listen. Interestingly, it is just recently that John Swed's book Space Is The Place points out how much my own thinking was influenced by Ra, and congruently how the Black Arts experience added a more openly Black nationalist edge to Ra's actually scientific philosophical musings on the Universe. At any rate, when I conceived of doing Black Mass to music, Ra was the only musician in my mind. Not just because of the 'otherworldliness' of the tale, but the sensuous 'outness' I knew Ra, with his (then titled, the name changed continuously) Myth-Science Arkestra, would bring, which I felt would give a material life to the text."

JACKET CONDITION VGVG+

VINYL CONDITION VG++

NOTES US original. Some minor ripples in the front slick that has taken some wear (hand pasted slick on plain black jacket)

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