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RE: musical genres

Alex-
In a message dated 5/6/03 7:55:04 AM, lubet001 (at) umn(dot)edu writes:

>It's not generally known but Sun Ra's real name was John Ra, from which
>the 
>term 'genre' is derived,

Oh, my God, that's awful.

I still liked it, of course.

According to Ira Gitler, Sun Ra's real name was Herman "Sunny" Blount or Lee; 
aka Sonny Bourke; Le Sony'r Ra.

Steve

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