Unlocking Hidden Stories: How CRAFT Transforms Erasure into a Sonic Journey
A mixtape requires the removal of disrupting elements from the original sources.
A mixtape tells a story by what a narrator decides to keep. A mixtape is an erasure essay, is what I am saying, and that is why I want to talk to you about how teenage girls have been writing erasure essays for decades.
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I am also trying to find a way to collar you by the bathroom line to drunkenly insist that you hold still so I can tell you THAT BOYFRIEND AND I USED SONG LYRICS IN OUR EMAIL TITLES TO COMMUNICATE TO EACH OTHER and that MY EMAILS WERE A FORM OF ERASURE ESSAY WRITING because I never used the actual lyric I wanted him to hear, I always used the line right before it — I encoded every one of my emails to him, inexplicably expecting he would scan the next verse in the song I’d quoted to determine what I had really wanted to say; all he’d had to do was scratch his fingernail across the liner notes to see what was left behind.
