7/5/2023 0 Comments Ytasha womackSpotlighting the spiritual ethos in Black music will reveal that Ra wasn’t as anomalous as many writers have suggested. But the spiritual metaphysics that gave rise to Afrofuturist characteristics are seldom discussed. It’s widely known that Sun Ra projected values, viewpoints, and images that we conceptualize as Afrofuturism before the term became operative. Several prominent characteristics associated with Afrofuturism, particularly flight and freedom, are manifestations of a spiritual ethos that shaped Black musicians’ worldviews and approaches to music-making in four centuries. But While Afrofuturism has been characterized as a philosophy, a movement, and a cultural aesthetic, among other things, there has been little discussion of the spiritual principles that essentially comprise the conceptual foundation of Afrofuturism in music. And when the focus shifts to Black music, the following names often appear: Sun Ra, Parliament-Funkadelic, Grace Jones, OutKast, Erykah Badu, Flying Lotus, and Janelle Monáe. Even the great Zora Neale Hurston has been described as an Afrofuturist. Womack, Ishmael Reed, and Mark Dery who coined the term in 1992. The term Afrofuturism invokes writers such as Octavia E.
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