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Recognized by the Hip-Hop Education Center as “one of the most original, perceptive and engaging social commentators in America today,” Dr. Joan Morgan (@joanmorgan) is a powerful figure in the history of Hip-Hop Journalism.
Born in Jamaica and raised in the South Bronx, she began as a freelancer at the Village Voice,... See more
criticalminded_communityinstagram.comMore than anyone else today, Michael Ford has worked tirelessly to find and identify examples of hip-hop influenced architecture and made many arguments to define architecture’s role in hip-hop’s inception. While I call Moses the “true father,” this is a notion first forwarded by Ford, who has routinely coined Le Corbusier and Robert Moses the... See more
The Fifth Pillar: A Case for Hip-Hop Architecture
Not DJ Kool Herc. Not The Sugarhill Gang. Not Crazy Legs. Not even Cornbread. The true father of hip-hop is Moses. The tyrannical, mercilessly efficient head of several New York City public works organizations, Robert Moses, did more in his fifty-year tenure to shape the physical and cultural conditions required for hip-hop’s birth than any other... See more
The Fifth Pillar: A Case for Hip-Hop Architecture
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Hip-hop is a subculture—a movement that comprises an entire generation of performers, artists, thinkers and designers, and began with young urban blacks and Latinos. Even as the art forms find acceptance and legitimacy within contemporary culture—in fashion, film, television, literature, poetry, and education—there is a core of hip-hop that... See more
The Fifth Pillar: A Case for Hip-Hop Architecture
What is ignored or neglected by the media -- but will be studied by historians?
Here's the full list of 25 examples: https://t.co/yzj9yGjDz9