In this discussion I utilize pianist, composer, band leader, and sound scientist Sun Ra, and his ensemble the Arkestra to address sonic ethics in two ways: first to re-examine the treatment of Alton Sterling, a Black man lynched by the Baton Rouge, LA, in 2016 and, second, to consider broader possibilities of how Afro-surrealist ethics, situated as sonic pedagogies, provide possibilities, simultaneously in formal and informal educational spaces/places, to disrupt ideological constructs situating Black life as equated to death.
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