From Lead Belly to Tupac: a prison history of music

from All Things Considered · host Sarah Robbins

In his book 'The Midnight Special', author Colin Asher traces how prisons and the criminal justice system shaped American music, from Lead Belly and Johnny Cash to Tupac.

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