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Wright State University has joined the movement to preserve and promote Dayton’s funk music heritage.
The university’s Special Collections and Archives department will collect funk-music related documents as part of a partnership with Dayton Funk Dynasty Group. The non-profit organization announced its plans a year ago for the Funk Hall of Fame and Museum in Dayton, partly as an economic driver. The university has been working with Dayton Funk Dynasty since October.
University Libraries Archivist Gino Pasi said there is a demand from the community for research material on Dayton funk artists as well as other popular Dayton acts.
“We saw it as an opportunity to shed light on Dayton music, which has struck gold a couple of times on a national level,” Pasi said. “It is forward thinking as much as it is looking to the past. It is civic pride.”
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