Description: Instrument of the State by Benjamin J. Harbert Louisiana State Penitentiary is one of the largest and most brutal maximum-security prisons in the United States. Built on the grounds of a former plantation, the prison is commonly referred to as "Angola" apropos of the country of origin for many of the enslaved people who inhabited the land. Despite notoriously inhumane conditions within the prison, people incarcerated at Angola have sustained a rich and dynamic musical legacy since the late nineteenth century,attracting folklorists such as John and Alan Lomax and Harry Oster. Well-known musicians including Huddie William "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, Charles Neville, and James Booker played a part in this history,in addition to a litany of others who proved vital to the prisons musical culture but for various reasons were unable to establish their careers upon release. In Instrument of the State, author Benjamin J. Harbert interweaves oral history and archival research to show how incarcerated musicians find small but essential freedoms by performing jazz, R&B, country, gospel, rock, and fusion throughout the Twentieth Century. In doing so, he expands folkloricdefinitions of "prison music." considering the ways in which music manifests among the incarcerated and the prisons administration as a lens to better understand state power and the fragments of hope and joy that remainin its wake. Instrument of the State acts as an indictment of the carceral state, highlighting the many ways in which the US penal system disproportionately affects African American people through desperate profiteering of a deliberately underfunded state agency. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography 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. Table of Contents Forewords by Calvin Lewis, Myron Hodges, and Wayne KramerList of FiguresNote to the readerIntroductionThe Book as a Multi-Movement Musical PieceUncovering HistoriesThe Musicality of PrisonA Brief Overview of Louisiana Behind Bars1. Astonishment2. Association3. Politics4. Surfaces5. Inflection6. RecapitulationNotesBibliographyIndex Details ISBN019751751X Author Benjamin J. Harbert Year 2023 ISBN-13 9780197517512 Format Paperback Subtitle A Century of Music in Louisianas Angola Prison Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Series AMERICAN MUSICSPHERES SERIES Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2023-06-28 UK Release Date 2023-06-28 ISBN-10 019751751X Alternative 9780197517505 DEWEY 365.668 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-09-19 Publication Date 2023-08-18 US Release Date 2023-08-18 Pages 368 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:143168048;
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