Virtual (requires Zoom)
Music colloquia provide a weekly forum for presentation and discussion of recent research by distinguished visitors and CWRU faculty and graduate students in musicology, historical performance practice, and music education.
All talks happen on Fridays at 4 PM (Eastern Time) and are free and open to the public. Please email Kevin Whitman at kbw29@case.edu for the Zoom meeting information.
About the Talk
"i used to love to dream: Going Into Language"
In the talk I will discuss my most recent album, i used to love to dream. It is the third in a series titled Sleepwalking. In the talk I will discuss its composition, development, and the process of publishing it with University of Michigan Press. I will also briefly discuss the projects that precede i used to love to dream—my 2017 dissertation album and digital archive, Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions (which will be mastered and published with University of Michigan Press this spring), and Sleepwalking, vols. 1 & 2.
About the Speaker
A.D. Carson (he | him) is a performance artist and educator from Decatur, Illinois. Dr. Carson is an assistant professor of Hip Hop in the Department of Music at the University of Virginia.