![]() | Prophet Singer Mark Allan Jackson is assistant professor of English and folklore at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. Over the years, his writing has been published in a variety of journals, such as American Music , Popular Music and Society , the Journal of American Folklore , and the Exquisite Corpse . Two collections of old-time labor music that he compiled and edited have been released as part of the West Virginia University Press Sound Archives, and he is currently working on a book about how the blues comments on the southern penal system. |
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