Prison Voices Project | The Power of Language

Prison Voices Project

The Power of Language

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"Words matter.  They shape perceptions and understanding, both of past and present events and of future possibilities, and, therefore, future events." - Eddie Ellis

Here is the information that was included in the notice that I received from Community Solutions of El Paso.  Thank you Carolyn!  Click on the link above to tune in tomorrow at 10 AM (ET).

What is the the impact of language on people who are incarcerated or who are returning to communities from lock-up? Cory Greene & Whitney Richards-Calathes presented "Coming Home from Lock Up: Community Perspectives for Imagining Re-entry" at the Prison Studies Conference at the Graduate Center at CUNY in New York City. They argue that we should shift away from the concept of re-entry for those returning from lock-up and use the concept of re-settlement. Prison Voices Project producers Dr. Karanja Keita Carroll, Dr. Alexandra Cox and Cory Fischer-Hoffman engage and elaborate on these themes. 

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Louis Armstrong & 'The Power of Mentors'

Louis Armstrong & King Oliver

The Power of Mentors

"At age eleven Armstrong was sent to a home for juvenile delinquents and stayed there for 18 months.  He loved playing various instruments in the marching band, working his way up to the cornet under the tutelage of the director, Peter Davis.  After he left the home he started hanging around older musicians, asking if he could sit in and play with them.  Eventually he knew enough tunes to substitute in a pinch.  Oliver become his idol.  Like Armstrong, Oliver had dark skin, was raised with church music and blues, and had no father in his life.  Oliver noticed his progress and invited him to his house for lessons at his kitchen table, teaching him "the modern way of phrasing on the cornet," as Armstrong described it.  Oliver taught by example and by verbal instruction how to play a strong lead and not get lost in "figurations," how to play second and thus contribute to collective improvisation, how to attack notes with punch and sustain them with fire."

-Thomas Brothers

Citations
Brothers, Thomas. Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2014. 5. Print.

Joseph "King Oliver" & Louis Armstrong. ca. 1918. Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans. Web. http://www.knowla.org/image/105/&ref=entry&refID=837.