❝ So glib you can’t predict whether it’s a prayer for war or a warning against it, Sun Ra’s “Nuclear War’’ (1982) is a preemptive war memorial, a song sculpted at the altar of imminent danger, but in a spirit of maddening and defiant play… This might be the most effective protest song ever made because rather than decry injustice until it becomes saccharine and unbearable to listen, stuck in time reifying that injustice by denouncing it, “Nuclear War” joins the unjust activity, revels in it as an accomplice as if the potential suffering of nuclear fallout is up to its potential victims. ❞ *
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