Jailhouse Blues: The Music of Parchman Farm

A listening session and presentation on 1930s women's prison music led by Duke undergraduate Trisha Santanam (Trinity '26), a member of the Rosetta Reitz Archive Bass Connections team and recipient of a Bass Connections Student Research Award. The program will include a listening and interpretation session focused on select recordings from the album, "Jailhouse Blues," released by Rosetta Records in 1987 in collaboration with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. This album features Library of Congress field recordings of African American women incarcerated in Parchman Penitentiary in the 1930s. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments served.