Music, connection, and social life in the criminal justice system

Millions of people are finding themselves imprisoned today, be it behind bars, in open-air occupied territories, in refugee camps and immigration detention centres. If music can be of any benefit to those of us who find ourselves in these situations, then it is our duty as music researchers to gain a better understanding of how it works, if music is indeed useful in places of detention. This is the starting position for Prisons of Note, a four-year research project based at the University of Oslo that investigates experiences ...