PROCESS & PROGRESS

Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions was presented as a dissertation for the Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design Ph.D. program at Clemson University in 2017. At the time, the primary music playlist for the album was hosted on Bandcamp. The 34 songs in that playlist were selected from an archive of songs posted on Soundcloud between 2013 and 2017, while I was a student in the doctoral program. I have intentionally left all of these versions of the project online so listeners might be able to trace changes I have made to the tracks. Some have been drastic, and others have been rather subtle. The most dramatic change in the 2024 publication of Owning My Masters is that the project has been mastered, peer-reviewed, and published through University of Michigan Press. The mastered version consists of entirely updated tracks which have been arranged in two playlists—Volume 1 and Volume 2.  Listeners should feel welcome to continue to access previously published drafts of the album on Bandcamp (2017) and Soundcloud (2013-2017).