{"id":40802244282,"date":"2020-02-03T10:52:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802244282"},"modified":"2020-03-10T09:37:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T13:37:15","slug":"professor-rapolla-produces-art-of-the-protest-song-event-at-the-grammy-museum-experience-in-newark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/professor-rapolla-produces-art-of-the-protest-song-event-at-the-grammy-museum-experience-in-newark\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Rapolla\u00a0Produces\u00a0\u2018Art Of The Protest Song\u2019 Event at the GRAMMY Museum Experience\u00a0in Newark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe\u00a0Rapolla, chair of the Monmouth University music and theatre\u00a0department, is producing\u00a0the “Art of the Protest Song” event on Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey as part of community programming for the GRAMMY Museum Experience. The\u00a0event is\u00a0a celebration of\u00a0a unique musical genre, combining both “classic” protest songs from social\/political movements throughout history, and contemporary, original songs on the events and issues of today.<\/p>\n

The “Art of the Protest Song” was introduced in 2014 by songwriter and musician Bill Valenti. The program includes a brief overview and examples of how topical music has impacted and reflected social, political and cultural movements in our history, as well as five performances by singer\/songwriters\u2014Tess Lira, Frank Lombardi, Natalia Zukerman, Valenti, and ALICIA\u2014that illustrate the power of music to change the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cMusic has played such an important role throughout history. This is such an engaging\u202fway\u202fto illustrate its impact, while listening to some great\u00a0and meaningful\u00a0songs by this\u202fdiverse group of songwriters,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Rapolla.<\/p>\n

Rapolla\u00a0collaborated with Mark Conklin, director of the GRAMMY Museum Experience, to book the artists and organize and promote the event. Rapolla will also\u00a0be giving a short presentation on how music has impacted\u00a0history, culture, and social issues throughout time.<\/p>\n

Monmouth\u202fstudents and faculty\u202fare scheduled to\u00a0attend,\u00a0Rapolla\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Tickets are priced at $15 and are available now at GRAMMYMuseumEXP.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The GRAMMY Museum Experience, located at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, is an interactive, experiential museum that commemorates the history of the GRAMMY Awards with a special focus on New Jersey.<\/p>\n

About Monmouth’s GRAMMY Museum Affiliation<\/strong><\/p>\n

In October of 2014, Monmouth University was named a higher education affiliate of the Los Angeles-based GRAMMY Museum. The partnership provides access to GRAMMY Museum content for educational purposes, curriculum resources, research programs, professional development seminars, collaborative marketing and promotions, project-based learning and unique student internship opportunities. GRAMMY Museum Director and Monmouth University alumnus Bob Santelli facilitated the partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe\u00a0Rapolla, chair of the Monmouth University music and theatre\u00a0department, is producing\u00a0the “Art of the Protest Song” event on Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey as part of community programming for the GRAMMY Museum Experience. The\u00a0event is\u00a0a celebration of\u00a0a unique musical genre, combining both “classic” protest songs from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":40802244302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,1],"tags":[],"person":[],"audience":[],"school":[65,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802244282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","category-uncategorized","school-music-theatre-arts","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802244282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802244282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802244282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802244303,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802244282\/revisions\/40802244303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802244302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802244282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802244282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802244282"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802244282"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802244282"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802244282"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802244282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}