City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects CUNY Graduate Center 9-2020 All Day in the Trey-Fold: Sound, Objecthood, and Place in the Mixtapes of DJ Screw Matthew K. Carter The Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3982 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact:
[email protected] All Day in the Trey-Fold: Sound, Objecthood, and Place in the Mixtapes of DJ Screw by Matthew K. Carter A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2020 © 2020 MATTHEW K. CARTER All Rights Reserved ii All Day in the Trey-Fold: Sound, Objecthood, and Place in the Mixtapes of DJ Screw by Matthew K. Carter This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Music in satisfaction of the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Shaugn O’Donnell Date Chair of Examining Committee Norman Carey Date Executive Officer Supervisory Committee: Chadwick Jenkins, Advisor Jeffrey Taylor, First Reader Shaugn O’Donnell, Second Reader Graham Harman, External Reader THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iii Abstract All Day in the Treyfold: Sound, Objecthood, and Place in the Mixtapes of DJ Screw by Matthew K. Carter Advisor: Chadwick Jenkins This dissertation traces the impact of the mixtapes of DJ Screw on the emergence of Houston hip hop culture in the 1990s.