Forewords by Calvin Lewis, Myron Hodges, and Wayne Kramer
List of Figures
Note to the reader
Introduction
The Book as a Multi-Movement Musical Piece
Uncovering Histories
The Musicality of Prison
A Brief Overview of Louisiana Behind Bars

1. Astonishment
2. Association
3. Politics
4. Surfaces
5. Inflection
6. Recapitulation

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Benjamin J. Harbert is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Performing Arts Department at Georgetown University. He is the author of American Music Documentary: Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnomusicology, director of the documentary Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians, and a co-editor of The Arab Avant Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity.

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