The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music
Wed 21 Oct, 18:30 · Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue · New York
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Colin Asher talks with the historian Jefferson Cowie about the prison roots of American popular music, the songs and singers that came out of Southern penitentiaries and quietly shaped everything after. In the Graduate Center's Elebash Recital Hall on Fifth Avenue. Free, early evening, and a genuinely underexplored piece of cultural history.
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