Cultural capital (aruda) jumps a quantum level in African America

From African American Blues comes every modern musical art form thats hard / funky from rock & roll to rap and I would even argue reggae. From this rich cultural capital infinite expressions are possible, this core sonic expression has culminated from the experience of Blacks in America. Three core ingredients stand out in my mind and they are the experience ( social and environmental conditions ) the instruments available for use and the inherent rhythm sensibility as well as the none audio sophistication of demeanor stemming from Africa. The African American cultural capital has to large degree resided in musical expressions. If one were to take away music would the cultural capitol still exist ? I would say yes it would exist in the pulse of the heart and the collective social disposition waiting for the tools or conduits of release. My most urgent postulation deals solely with the economy of the African American Cultural Capital in all its forms adulterated and pure. I presume if African Americans took sole control of this capital there would be no need for reparations or the sight of loitering and meandering youth cause they would be working in the factories of Art production. The emergence of industrialized high design as a vessel for the expression of this same cultural capital allows for the mistake of the past not to be repeated. Its Time to Invent the Future.

Neb Aketu. May 2006

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492 Warren Street is a proposed 4 story residence that is designed by Neb Aketu in the Sasa Hiphop Architecture style. The material and design impetus is the result of studying society and humanosity at the exact moment that culture is created.

The concrete and wood materials have a aurodactic relational function that ties into way a dancer and drummer communicate with one another. The 4th floor is mostly open to the morning sun allowing for light to permeate the entire structure.

2006 Neb Aketu