Sun Ra ran his Arkestra under disciplined, quasi-military house rules.

Evidence

There was also a pay phone as well as a kitchen where Sun Ra sometimes cooked for the band. House rules forbade drugs and alcohol. Nor were the musicians allowed to bring women. Another visitor, the jazz writer Val Wilmer, thought Sun Ra ran the Arkestra like an army. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 899

Categorization

• XREF: Discipline inside an avant-garde scene complicates the stereotype that such scenes run purely on drugs and chaos — relevant to the reader’s material-conditions thesis.