Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus — Black On Both Sides
A Song for Soweto
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Hip-hop architecture, in its new definition, will embody the spirit of hip-hop’s birth, and use the tools of the architect to create structures and built environments. It will be practiced by those raised in architecture’s traditions and hip-hop’s realities. It will be both antiestablishment and socially responsible. It will embrace the... See more
The Fifth Pillar: A Case for Hip-Hop Architecture
This sound of freedom, which expressed resistance, hope, faith, determination, resilience, courage, and pride, was carried in the syntax and tones of black voices, male and female, individual and collective. The spirituals became a primary genre of black musical expression and the black community, like the one Coltrane grew up in,