Join Amplified host Stacey Copeland in conversation with Dr. A.D. Carson, assistant professor of Hip Hop and the Global South in the Department of Music at the University of Virginia, to talk about bridging the worlds of rap and academic publishing, and their experience in non-traditional peer review, asking 'who are the peers anyway?'. 

Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. Find the full transcript for this episode and the rest of our audio blog series at: https://amplifypodcastnetwork.ca/blog/

Guest Bio

A.D. Carson is an award-winning rapper, performance artist, and educator from Decatur, Illinois. He received a Ph.D. from Clemson University in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design. His most recent album is iv: talking to ghosts, and his academically peer-reviewed album, i used to love to dream, was published by University of Michigan Press in 2020. Dr. Carson is currently assistant professor of Hip-Hop & the Global South in the Department of Music at the University of Virginia. [social: @aydeethegreat]

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Song featured in the intro by A.D. Carson - “Asterisk”. (2020). I used to love to dream. University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11738372.cmp.12

Amplified Intro + Outro Music: Pxl Cray – Blue Dot Studios (2016)

Written and produced by: Stacey Copeland

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