How Long to Read Space Is the Place

How Long Does it Take to Read Space Is the Place?

It takes the average reader 14 hours and 40 minutes to read Space Is the Place by John F. Szwed

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Always riveting, Space Is the Place is the definitive biography of "one of the great big-band leaders, pianists, and surrealists of jazz" (The New York Times)—unparalleled for his purposeful outlandishness, a man who exerted a powerful influence over a vast array of artists. Sun Ra—a/k/a Herman Poole "Sonny Blount—was born in Alabama on May 22, 1914. But like Father Divine and Elijah Muhammad, he made a lifelong effort to obscure many of the facts of his early life. After years as a rehearsal pianist for nightclub revues and in blues and swing bands, including Wynonie Harris's and Fletcher Henderson's, Sun Ra set out in the 1950s to find a way to impart his views about the galaxy, black people, and spiritual matters through the various incarnations of the Intergalactic Arkestra. His repertoire ranging from boogie-woogie, swing, and bebop to free form, fusion, and whatever, Sun Ra was above all a paragon of contradictions: profundity and vaudeville; technical pianistic virtuosity and irony; assiduous attention to arrangements and encouragement of collective improvisation; respect for tradition and celebration of the fresh. Some might have been bemused by his Afro-Platonic neo-hermeticism; others might have laughed at his egregious excesses. But Sun Ra was at once one of the great avant-gardists of the latter half of the twentieth century and a black cultural nationalist who extended Afrocentrism from ancient Egypt to the heavens.

How long is Space Is the Place?

Space Is the Place by John F. Szwed is 857 pages long, and a total of 220,249 words.

This makes it 289% the length of the average book. It also has 269% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Space Is the Place Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 20 hours and 3 minutes to read Space Is the Place aloud.

What Reading Level is Space Is the Place?

Space Is the Place is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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