Dr. Emilie Amrein (University of San Diego) and Dr. Andre DeQuadros (Boston University) hosted an hour-long session with Jody Kerchner (OMAG Choir founder/director) and Jerome Thompson (OMAG Choir founding member & restored citizen) on March 10, 2021 as a part of The Choral Commons Prison Arts series on Facebook.
In this conversation, we discuss how the choir began and issues of “white saviorism,” deprivation of the opposite gender, the impact of prison choir, solitary confinement, freedom practice and liberation even inside of a prison, and building community.
Singing Behind Bars 