{"id":9059,"date":"2017-02-24T08:53:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T13:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=9059"},"modified":"2017-02-24T08:53:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T13:53:46","slug":"wwii-swing-bands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wwii-swing-bands\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit | WWII Japanese Incarceration Swing Bands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/exhibit-wwii-japanese-incarceration-swing-bands\/orwig-exhibit-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9060\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9060\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/Orwig-Exhibit-5-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/Orwig-Exhibit-5-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/Orwig-Exhibit-5-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>WWII Japanese Incarceration Swing Bands<\/i>, a new exhibit in Orwig Music Library curated by Ethnomusicology PhD student\u00a0Julian Saporiti,\u00a0shines a light on the 75th Anniversary of the Japanese American Incarceration. On February 19th, 1942, President Roosevelt bowed to racist, anti-Japanese hysteria and signed Executive Order 9066 which removed\u00a0120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom were citizens, from their homes on the west coast. They were relocated to concentration camps, under armed guard and behind barbed wire.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit also pays tribute to the musicians who, of their own accord, formed swing bands and performed at weekly dances in almost all of the ten camps to boost morale among the young people in the camps. The Brown Music Department hopes that by focusing on this tragic and sadly relevant part of our American history, those who visit this exhibit to will be encouraged to heed the words of many of those who lived through it: \u201cDo not let this happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/exhibit-wwii-japanese-incarceration-swing-bands\/orwig-exhibit-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9061\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9061\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/Orwig-Exhibit-2-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates:<\/strong>\u00a0February 19\u00a0&#8211; May 19, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/hours\/index.php?cur_library=hours_orwig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orwig Music Library\u00a0Hours<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brown.edu\/Facilities\/Facilities_Management\/maps\/index.php#building\/ORWIG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orwig Music Library,<\/a> 1 Orchard Avenue, Providence, RI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWII Japanese Incarceration Swing Bands, a new exhibit in Orwig Music Library curated by Ethnomusicology PhD student\u00a0Julian Saporiti,\u00a0shines a light on the 75th Anniversary of the Japanese American Incarceration. On February 19th, 1942, President Roosevelt bowed to racist, anti-Japanese hysteria and signed Executive Order 9066 which removed\u00a0120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom were <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wwii-swing-bands\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Exhibit | WWII Japanese Incarceration Swing Bands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}