A.D. Carson
@aydeethegreat
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Fictional Character | Music Maker | Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia | Doer of Things
Imagination, USA
Joined August 2009
“Much appreciation to the folks at @cvilleweekly for talking to me about ‘Owning My Masters (Mastered).’ S/o to @UVA, @ClemsonUniv, & @UofMPress.”
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RT @DrMaDMo: Our commitment to celebrity worship (within the context of a neoliberal capitalist and rapidly turning fascist society) is a b…
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“Re: genre and the hold it has on us. It’s not just about music or books…it’s for sure about people. When I wrote my dissertation, it HAD to be an album — a rap album — to insist that folks (and my committee) contend with how genre communicates and what it communicates”
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@tracie_canada @ucpress @DukeTrinity @BlackThinkTank_ @DukeAAAS @AmericanAnthro Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉
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RT @tracie_canada: i've waited excitedly for months for this special delivery from @ucpress and it's finally here! THRILLED that my copies…
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RT @Phil_Lewis_: I talked to the Black residents of Altadena who say they’ve lost everything but hope. “When you escape tragedy, you say,…
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RT @jeremotographs: Today I was granted access to speak with incarcerated firefighters. They told me: - they hadn’t showered in 5 days -…
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“I really just hope that we can celebrate the wins for hip-hop and for hip-hop artists like Lupe by acknowledging their actual remarkable accomplishments. Misinformation detracts from the rightful kudos they deserve. 🙏🏾🫡”
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“I’ve been professor of hip-hop at @UVA since 2017. I got tenure by writing rap albums and teaching classes on writing rap and mixtapes. My dissertation album was just published by @UofMPress. I don’t claim to be the first anything but I been here.”
@mymixtapez @aydeethegreat might beg to differ!
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RT @DrMaDMo: Not #Blacksound being ranked as the no.1 music book in 2024 by a publishing unit (CHOICE) of the American Library Association…
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RT @SebastianAvenue: Happy Birthday Zora Neale Hurston “If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” https…
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RT @Harmony_Holiday: Underappreciated in her own time, estate appreciated posthumously, happy birthday to Zora Neale Hurston
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RT @NewBlackMan: 'You may never have heard of Brooklyn, Illinois. You might not be aware it’s one of the country’s first Black settlements,…
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