Music as Ethics offers a comparative ethnography of the relationship of music to ethics in four communities in Virginia, covering a wide range of demographic contexts and musical …
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This is a case study of the Oberlin Music at Grafton (OMAG) Choir in which the author explored prison singers' choral music experiences, specifically their possible intrapersonal …
Carceral music-making in the United States has been recorded and broadcast since the 1930s. Folklorists visited prisons and captured sound recordings, prison wardens broadcast …
Murder ballads, or narrative songs centered on a murder and/or its aftermath, were historically used as a tool to emphasize a criminal's guilt, cruelty, and inhumanity. Ballads …
This research draws on Clifford Geertz's understanding of ethnography as “thick description” and applies it through David Bodenhamer's notion of “deep mapping” in order to analyze …