I Used to Love to Dream, by A. D. Carson

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Review| August 01 2022 I Used to Love to Dream, by A. D. Carson I Used to Love to Dream, by A. D. Carson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. URL: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11738372 Jasmine A. Henry Jasmine A. Henry JASMINE A. HENRY is a Predoctoral Fellow at William Paterson University and Future of Music Faculty Fellow at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Her research focuses on the intersection of race, placemaking, DIY sonic practices, and music technologies within contemporary East Coast electronic dance music scenes. She currently serves as Media Lab Director at the Newark School of the Arts, where she provides marginalized community members with access to music technologies and industry knowledge. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2022) 75 (2): 409–419. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2022.75.2.409 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jasmine A. Henry; I Used to Love to Dream, by A. D. Carson. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 August 2022; 75 (2): 409–419. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2022.75.2.409 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Few scholars have had as highly publicized a junior faculty career as A. D. Carson, Assistant Professor of Hip-Hop and the Global South at the University of Virginia (UVA). In 2017, Carson made national headlines as the Clemson University doctoral candidate who submitted his dissertation in the form of a thirty-four-track rap album entitled “Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes and Revolutions.” Carson used the album to reflect upon his experience of living in Clemson, South Carolina, as a Black graduate student navigating a predominantly white Southern university campus structured by physical markers and histories of white supremacy. Rather than using traditional modes of academic writing, he employed rap performance as his central methodology to illuminate and articulate issues of race and racism in predominantly white academic spaces and Black communities. In doing so, he put into practice a powerful method of documenting, processing, and working through the trauma... You do not currently have access to this content.