Abstract
Abstract
The 1950s was a unique period of reform that gave jazz musicians new opportunities to build an active jazz scene, though not without serious challenges. Chapter 2 develops the idea of association, a collaborative music-making that relies on the institution’s support and therefore is tied to the multiple missions of incarceration. Association, the act of coming together for a common purpose, is inherent to music anywhere. But the folkloric notions of prison music as an individual endeavor obscured the prolific jazz practices that dominated Angola’s musical activity in the 1950s. This chapter reveals how jazz depended on and supported prisoner associations that flourished during a decade of progressive reform. The focus on jazz, prisoner-run media and the shift to a modern prison building show how collective activity can secure small individual freedoms. The chapter follows the rise and fall of the Cavaliers, the Rhythm Makers, the All-Stars, and the Nic Nacs.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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