Deserted downtown should mean new dance, music & graffiti culture

"'San Francisco is now less expensive and less crowded, and its tech workers are more productive. Those are good things,' Bloom says." - San Francisco Examiner.

If history doesnt repeat itself what will see fill the vaccuum of pandemic flight? According to the City University of New York's Sounds and Scenes of New York City: Hip-Hop | Music of the Oppressed:
...in the 1960s, the vacancy rates were at their highest in the South Bronx because of desegregation policies bussing students of color to different schools to put desegregation policies in action. Most parents soon followed suit and moved closer to the schools. The vacant spots made the perfect destination for block parties from whence the culture of hip-hop came about.

That late 1970's and early 1980's culture is still being portrayed in new streaming series. But it was captured in one memorable early film, produced at a time before the music, dance and graffiti trio became widely known as hip hop.


An arts revolution is probably happening right now, but we're too old, too online, or too diasporic to see it?




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