{"id":29701,"date":"2014-04-18T09:11:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T13:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=29701"},"modified":"2014-04-18T09:11:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T13:11:21","slug":"wright-state-wants-funk-music-memorabilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/18\/wright-state-wants-funk-music-memorabilia\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State wants funk music memorabilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wright State University has joined the movement to preserve and promote Dayton\u2019s funk music heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The university\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw it as an opportunity to shed light on Dayton music, which has struck gold a couple of times on a national level,\u201d Pasi said. \u201cIt is forward thinking as much as it is looking to the past. It is civic pride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/entertainment\/music\/wright-state-wants-funk-music-memorabilia\/nfcQw\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dayton Daily News<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Wright State University has joined the movement to preserve and promote Dayton\u2019s funk music heritage. The university\u2019s Special Collections and Archives department will collect funk-music related documents as part of a partnership with Dayton Funk Dynasty Group. The non-profit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/18\/wright-state-wants-funk-music-memorabilia\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":25053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2114,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libraries","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29703,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701\/revisions\/29703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}