A.D. Carson - Department of Music, University of Virginia
About this episode
Ashley Newby interviews A.D. Carson about his work in music and Black Studies.
This is Ashley Newby and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods. Today's conversation is with A.D. Carson, who teachings in the Department of Music at University of Virginia. His work as a rapper, educator, writer, and commentator deals with race, place, history, literature, hip hop, rhetorics & performance. His books include Being Dope: Hip Hop & Theory through Mixtape Memoir , COLD , and The City . His mixtape, i used to love to dream , was the first-ever rap album peer-reviewed for publication with an academic press. It received a Prose Award (Best eProduct) from the Association of American Publishers and was a finalist for the Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award from the American Council of Learned Societies. His work has been published by The Guardian , Rolling…
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