"i used to love to dream," by A.D. Carson, was named a 2021 Prose Category Award Winner (Best eProduct). Read the full list of winners here. [embed class="is-loading"]https://twitter.com/aydeethegreat/status/1354863822364925955?s=20&t=x22-W8Ra47VPkBXNUKPN9A[/embed]...
December 8, 2020 Dan Heuchert, [email protected] In addition to releasing the first-ever peer reviewed rap album, University of Virginia professor of hip-hop A.D. Carson has seen another example of his work climb the music charts this year. Carson, who joined the faculty of the McIntire Department of Music...
A.D. Carson's new album, i used to love to dream, is a mixtap/e/ssay that performs hip-hop scholarship using sampled and live instrumentation; repurposed music, film, and news clips; and original rap lyrics. As a genre, the mixtap/e/ssay brings together the mixtape—a self-produced or independently released...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here’s the song itself. Take a listen. Editor’s note: Welcome to the latest installment of “On Words,” an occasional series in which faculty members write about evocative words and phrases. A.D. Carson, assistant professor of hip-hop and the Global...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Here is a project I did with Sundress Publications. Read their description of the series here. Click the image to read the Rap & Storytellingly Invention craft chap.If you have any problems with the audio I've uploaded the...