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All these losses, for me, carry equal weight, precisely because, for Black, research and writing about building held as much transformational potential as design and construction. Indeed, it might be true that, for Black, such a duality did not exist. Perhaps, for him, writing and spatial thinking were one and the same. This is what most excites me... See more
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Max Boot • Invisible Armies
His body of work produced in this period with the great quartet is characterized by greater and greater melodic and rhythmic freedom. This is the period in which Coltrane turns decidedly to Africa and the Third World for influences, producing song titles and arrangements that explicitly gesture to Africa; it is also the period when song titles and
... See moreLeonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
