Sun Ra Arkestra | ROUTES https://routes-mag.com A Guide to African-American Culture Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:23:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Afrofuturism Music Festival: Nicole Mitchell and Angel Bat Dawid https://routes-mag.com/nicole-mitchell-and-angel-bat-dawid-female-bandleaders/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nicole-mitchell-and-angel-bat-dawid-female-bandleaders https://routes-mag.com/nicole-mitchell-and-angel-bat-dawid-female-bandleaders/#respond Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:00:05 +0000 https://routes-mag.com/?p=38420 African-American and AfroFuturistic dynamic duos fused in one concert As part of the this year’s Carnegie Hall Afrofuturism Music Festival, this show presented bandleaders Nicole Mitchell with her

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]]> https://routes-mag.com/nicole-mitchell-and-angel-bat-dawid-female-bandleaders/feed/ 0 AfroFuturism and Transgenerational Trauma from Slavery Past https://routes-mag.com/afrofuturism-and-transgenerational-trauma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=afrofuturism-and-transgenerational-trauma https://routes-mag.com/afrofuturism-and-transgenerational-trauma/#respond Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:26:11 +0000 https://routes-mag.com/?p=38187 As we close out our February issue, I find myself reflecting on the topics our Routes’ writers and photographers have shared. A recurring theme in

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]]> https://routes-mag.com/afrofuturism-and-transgenerational-trauma/feed/ 0 Sun Ra and his Arkestra then (1992) and now (2022) https://routes-mag.com/sun-ra-and-his-arkestra/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sun-ra-and-his-arkestra https://routes-mag.com/sun-ra-and-his-arkestra/#respond Sat, 26 Feb 2022 13:59:08 +0000 https://routes-mag.com/?p=37934 When the 2022 Afrofuturism series was announced by Carnegie Hall, I scrolled eagerly through the rather eclectic line-up of the festival. I was hoping it

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]]> https://routes-mag.com/sun-ra-and-his-arkestra/feed/ 0 Hartmut Geerken’s Sun Ra Archive Finds A Home in Germany https://routes-mag.com/sun-ra-archive-finds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sun-ra-archive-finds https://routes-mag.com/sun-ra-archive-finds/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2022 20:20:32 +0000 https://routes-mag.com/?p=37741 On Halloween 2020, amidst the height and dread of the COVID-19 pandemic, I received a telephone call from Munich, Germany. The caller was Hartmut Geerken.

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