A.D. Carson’s new book, Being Dope: Hip Hop and Theory through Mixtape Memoir, explores race, history and culture through music and storytelling. Released by Oxford University Press on Dec. 10, Being ...
Dr. A.D. Carson, the professor who defended a rap album as his Ph.D. dissertation, is redefining Hip-Hop as both scholarship and culture. Bars and Books! Hip-Hop has always been a culture of ...
I’m from the small Central Illinois town of Decatur. My hometown is one of the sites where the war on drugs and many of its battles took place. In 2018, Decatur was listed at number seven in USA Today ...