Free shipping on orders over $89 - Limited time only - T&Cs apply
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $89
Prison Song : Music and Incarceration in the United States - David Metzer

Prison Song

Music and Incarceration in the United States

By: David Metzer

eBook | 20 April 2026

At a Glance

eBook

RRP $15.42

$12.42

19%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $3.10 with

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

From Johnny Cash to Jay-Z, musicians have long used their voices to challenge the injustices of the prison system. Prison Song: Music and Incarceration in the United States reveals how musicians have confronted the prison system by telling the life stories of imprisoned individuals, creating empathetic bonds between listeners and those individuals, and critiquing the racial and social inequalities that incarceration preys upon. Prison Song takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach to explore how artists across genres—hip hop, country, blues, folk, rock, jazz, and classical—have protested the prison system. David Metzer examines the works of incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and non-incarcerated musicians from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including prison records, government reports, legislation, court decisions, and scholarship from carceral studies, each chapter reveals how musicians responded to developments in the prison system at particular historical moments and how their works have shaped public understanding of the prison system in the United States.

on

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionArts & EntertainmentMusicPolitics & GovernmentPolitical Activism

Other Editions and Formats

Hardcover

Published: 20th April 2026

Available for Backorder. We will order this from our supplier however there isn't a current ETA.

View Product

More in Music

The Road to Woodstock - Michael Lang

eBOOK

The Road to Woodstock

eBook

RRP $25.99

$20.89

20%
OFF
Parental Advisory : Music Censorship in America - Eric D. Nuzum

eBOOK

Parental Advisory

Music Censorship in America

eBook

RRP $25.99

$20.89

20%
OFF
The Beatles : Every Little Thing - Maxwell Mackenzie

eBOOK

The Beatles

Every Little Thing

eBook

RRP $24.99

$20.01

20%
OFF
Everybody Hurts : An Essential Guide to Emo Culture - Trevor Kelley

eBOOK

Everybody Hurts

An Essential Guide to Emo Culture

eBook

RRP $24.99

$20.01

20%
OFF
Between a Heart and a Rock Place : A Memoir - Pat Benatar

eBOOK

Between a Heart and a Rock Place

A Memoir

eBook

RRP $33.99

$27.27

20%
OFF
A Night Without Armor : Poems - Jewel

eBOOK

A Night Without Armor

Poems

eBook

RRP $25.99

$20.89

20%
OFF
Elia Kazan : A Biography - Richard Schickel

eBOOK

Elia Kazan

A Biography

eBook

RRP $21.99

$17.59

20%
OFF
Worlds of Sound : The Story of Smithsonian Folkways - Richard Carlin

eBOOK

Worlds of Sound

The Story of Smithsonian Folkways

eBook

RRP $24.99

$20.01

20%
OFF
Beatlesongs - William J. Dowlding

eBOOK

Beatlesongs

eBook

$20.99

This product is categorised by