Have A Merry Merry: Audio Geek in Space

Via New Black Man and Professor Kim comes an interview with Professor Tricia Rose (African Studies, Brown University, pictured right, photo © Frank Stewart) on Sun Ra (pictured below, courtesy Perfect Sound Forever), hip hop and Afrofuturism.



Plus, there's a 1927 song "The White Flyer to Heaven" which Studio 360 lists as "featuring Reverend A.W. Nix, a black preacher. Some consider this the earliest example of Afro-futurism. (Courtesy of Kevin Nutt.)"