The Sun Ra Arkestra is an American jazz group formed in the mid-1950s and led by keyboardist/composer Sun Ra until his death in 1993. The group is considered a pioneer of afrofuturism …
Month: June 2023
June 3, 2023 – Les Angles Mortes presents Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro
In 1932 Shirley Graham Du Bois composed the opera Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro. Perhaps the first opera ever written by a Black women, it premiered to wide acclaim, before fading into history …