Crowbar Tech
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About the Book
Crowbar Tech describes in a humorous but serious and factual way what it was like teaching music along with various other miscellaneous undertakings in a maximum-security prison for twenty three years. This is a true story, written from the author's viewpoint, how life was perceived by him within the prison walls.
The following is an excerpt from an article written by Dave Zurawik titled "On the Wings of Song" and published in the Milwaukee Sentinel,
It's Monday morning,
About the Author
I lived in white, small town America, and by taking this job I had meaningful, life-affirming artistic and intellectual interactions with men from backgrounds unlike my own. People that I hadn’t learned much about in school. Not only was there the peculiar, quasi-military prison culture, there were people from everywhere. Native Americans, South Americans, Mexicans, Central Americans, taught me their culture and their music. I was transformed. Music started as a love, an escape, and became a medium for transferring joy, virtuosity and hope.