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Description
Guitar workshop with Johnny Fortune (1943-2006). Session performer, bassist, and guitarist, Fortune played for artists such as Sam Cooke and Terry Stafford. Fortune was perhaps best known for his 1963 hit "Soul Surfer." During the workshop, Fortune plays and answers questions. Music created by inmates in the California prison system. The William James Association Prison Arts Project (PAP) began as a pilot project in 1977 at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville, with funding provided by the San Francisco Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. The success of this initial program led to the formation of Arts-in-Corrections, an administrative office within the California Department of Corrections, which oversaw the staffing of artist-facilitators at all prisons in California. In 2009, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation laid off staff in education, vocational, substance abuse, and other inmates programs, including the one Artist Facilitator at each prison.
Type
moving image
Format
Master Sound Color Video8
Form/Genre
Documentary films
Extent
1 Tape of 1
Identifier
calauem_00003
Language
English
Subject
Music in prisons--California Guitar music California Institution for Men Fortune, Johnny, 1943-2006
Place
California Institution for Men (Chino, Calif.)
Provenance
University of California, Los Angeles, Ethnomusicology Archive California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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