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Space Is the Place: Sun Ra, the P-Funk Mothership and Afrofuturism's Aliens

Sun Ra said he was from Saturn; George Clinton landed a spaceship on stage every night; Outkast declared themselves ATLiens and Janelle Monáe built an android from the future. How Black music made the alien its own, the term Afrofuturism, the Mothership in the Smithsonian, and the Nation of Islam's real Mother Plane.