Unlocking Hidden Stories: How CRAFT Transforms Erasure into a Sonic Journey
But I kept returning to the concept of what I had done with that original mixtape/essay — how I had removed all the extra words in songs I’d already pruned from the soundtrack of those years, and I had left behind only the utterly unleavable. The true words at the core of my experience.
I’ll say it again: isn’t a mixtape just an erasure essay after all?
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I meant to convince you that not only are erasure essays mixtapes, and mixtapes erasure essays, but also that erasure essays are the natural way to understand teenagers, by the transitive property.
