Wall Street Journal: American culture expert discusses prison folklore

Release Date: September 4, 2010 This content is archived.

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An article in the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog interviews Bruce Jackson, Samuel P. Capen Professor of American Culture, about the work he began in the early 1960s, visiting prisons in the South, first to record folk songs and then to interview inmates about their lives in and out of the criminal justice system.

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