In Prison: Afroamerican Prison Music from Blues to Review
No country in the world locks up more of its citizens than the USA and nearly half of the 2.2 million prisoners are African Americans. One out of eight African American men between 20 and 35 is in prison: a circumstance which has serious effects upon African American society and culture - not least upon it's music. This collection brings together work songs of the chain gangs, imprisoned bluesmen like Robert Pete Williams, the prison-soul of the Escorts, the enraged hip hop accusations of Tupac Shakur, Brand Nubian and K-Solo as well as prison songs by Bobby Womack, Curtis Mayfield, the Last Poets, Nina Simone, the Temptations and more. Trikont. 2006.
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