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El Sistema

El Sistema is a social action and a music program in South America's Venezuela in the year

1975. The founder was called Jose Antonio Abreu. The program provides participation from an

early age for the musical ensemble, and they are grouped according to the well-defined

principles (Parsons, Talcott, José, and José). The focus of El Sistema is to provide joyful music

as a vehicle for social development. The main aim of the movement is to offer the disadvantages

in society the opportunity to learn music together. The backbone of El Sistema is participation in

classical music such as orchestral ensembles. The participants also take part in folk music, jazz

and other special programs designed for diversity. The students take part I retreats which include

the intensive workshops. Participation in these workshops is free for all students.

Music at Sing Sing Prison

Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum prison that is located within one hundred

kilometers from New York City. Currently, the capacity for Sing Sing Facility is estimated to be

1,600 prisoners, and while the prisoners serve their sentence, the officials prepare them for the

world outside the facility. The prison offers technical training and other education forms, and

once or twice a month, an artist from New York come to Sing Sing Facility and work with the 30

detainees where they are involved in the Musical Connections Programs. When interviewed,

some prisoners confess to not knowing anything about music, which they learned during the

program. Some of the graduates who spent four years with the program are now out of the
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facility and earning their living writing operatic works (Floyd) The Musical connections at Sing

Sing has one goal, it connects people, when they make the artistic decisions, they learn how to

sort out problems.

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Works Cited

Parsons, Talcott, José Jiménez Blanco, and José Cazorla Pérez. El sistema social. No. HN28 P3.
Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 2015.

Floyd, Janet. "Dislocations of the Self: Eliza Farnham at Sing Sing Prison." Journal of American
Studies 40.2 (2006): 311-325.