Prison Performing Arts Program

1. What makes this fieldsite a good fieldsite for this research?
The fieldsite is great because prison is the center of the actual subculture so every observation is a direct one.

2. What observations does the author make that are particularly useful in talking about this subculture?
The prisoners have a deep emotional connection to their character and the play. Being people that have had to contemplate doing a violents crime, then going through it, as well as facing the consequences, affected their interpretion of their roles.

3. What are the norms and values subculture?
They normally went over their lines whenever they got the chance and they truly valued the two or so hours they spent with the performing arts coach because they felt like humans and like they were doing somethin good.

4. What interview technique does the author use that works well with this subculture?
He was careful not to ask anything too offending or too personal. He was very polite with the prisoners and asked them several though provoking questions. He seemed very dedicated.