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Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians. Benjamin J. Harbert, director. Films Media Group, 2012, DVD.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2016

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Copyright © The Society for American Music 2016 

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References

1 Cindy Chang, “How Louisiana Became the World's Prison Capital,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, 13 March 2012.

2 Scherdin, Lill, ed., Capital Punishment: A Hazard to a Sustainable Criminal Justice System? (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014), 38 Google Scholar.

3 It is not clear whether the creators of the works have formal training, receive any instruction, or whether a composition program exists at the prison.

4 Pierpaolo Polzonetti, “Don Giovanni Goes to Prison: Teaching Opera Behind Bars,” Musicology Now (blog), American Musicological Society, 16 February, 2016, http://musicologynow.ams-net.org/2016/02/don-giovanni-goes-to-prison-teaching_16.html.