The 2024 project has been mastered, peer-reviewed, reorganized into two playlists, and published through University of Michigan Press.
In 2017, the unmastered version of the project was presented as a dissertation for the Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design Ph.D. program at Clemson University.
The 34 songs in the final playlists were selected from an archive of songs shared on Soundcloud between 2013 and 2017.
It’s not a matter
of simply rapping.
I really happen
to have a strategy
being enacted.
“[W]hat happens once the black voice becomes disembodied, severed from its source, [re]contextualized, and [re]embodied and appropriated, or even before this point?” [37]
Alexander G. Weheliye, Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity.
Published by University of Michigan Press (2024)
Video content for Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions.
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