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The Magic City: Birmingham selon Sun Ra

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Pablo Guarise and Guillaume Maupin

On May 22, 1914, Herman Poole Blount arrived on Earth in Birmingham, Alabama, nicknamed 'the Magic City'—an industrial Southern city marked by segregation. After leaving the city at the age of 32, he would become Sun Ra, one of the most eccentric and prolific jazz musicians of the century, as well as the founder of a strange cosmic philosophy. 

The Magic City is both a portrait of the artist as a young man and a portrait of a city through time. It tells the story of the musician’s early years in this city-universe that is at once political and magical, ordinary and fantastical, unsettling and fascinating.

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