Later that day, the 34-year old Dumas was shot to death by a New York City transit officer inside the 125 th Street Station no witness accounts were recorded. On May 23, 1968, Dumas attended a rehearsal in Harlem by Sun Ra and his Arkestra.
Dumas learned at his side, and composed lyrics and chants to accompany some of the music. Here was a model, initiated by artists of a preceding generation and embodied in Sun Ra, for reimagining the future through the culture and concerns of the African diaspora. 1914) had evolved out of the big band era to create “cosmic swing,” one of the signature sounds of the Black Arts Movement in the late 1950’s and 1960’s.
“The metagenesis of Sunra is said to have come about through the intercourse of the sun with the comet X,” Henry Dumas wrote in his mythopoetic legend of the birth and mission of the composer, pianist and mythscientist in “The Metagenesis of Sunra (to Sun Ra and His Arkestra).” Sun Ra (b.
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