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Funk Pedagogy: An Ethnographic, Historical, And Practical Study Of Funk Music In Dayton, Ohio, Caleb Vanden Eynden

Content Presented at the First and Second Dayton Funk Symposia

This presentation will discuss an honors thesis research project completed as an undergraduate music student at the University of Dayton. Titled “Traditional Funk: An Ethnographic, Historical, and Practical Study of Funk Music in Dayton, Ohio,” the thesis explores traditional funk style, Dayton’s musical history, and how funk music can be incorporated into music programs and curricula across Dayton area schools. During his student teaching semester, Vanden Eynden had an opportunity to teach a unit on Dayton funk to students at Springboro High School. This presentation will explore some of the findings from this project and share ideas for its future …

Pour Some Water On Me: Prince And The Ohio Players, De Angela Duff

Content Presented at the First and Second Dayton Funk Symposia

In Prince’s incomplete and posthumous memoir, The Beautiful Ones, The Ohio Players is referenced four times. However, Prince’s love of The Ohio Players was evident, decades before the release of this book. Prince has covered Ohio Players’ classics, such as “Skin Tight,” “I Want To Be Free,” “Love Rollercoaster,” and “Heaven Must Be Like This,” in numerous rehearsals, shows, and after shows over the years. However, The Ohio Players are rarely discussed by music critics as one of Prince’s influences. This presentation will attempt to deconstruct why, while also exploring Prince’s funk roots and influences.

Books With Looks, Isabella Fusillo

University Libraries Blog Archive

There are pretty rare books, and there are pretty, rare books. Isabella Fusillo '22 curates a cart of the archives' lovely literature.

Keynote Address — Funk And Afro Futurism: The Past, Present, And Future Of The Funk, Frederick Vincent

Content Presented at the First and Second Dayton Funk Symposia

Dr. Frederick “Rickey” Vincent is author of the award-winning Funk: The Music, the People and the Rhythm of The One (1996), the first definitive treatment of funk music and culture. His address addresses:

• Liberation in the Moment: Other Worlds and Black Liberation (from Soul Train to “Wakanda Forever”)
• The Rhythm Revolution: Liberation, Motion, and Black Identity (JB and The One)
• Transcendence: The Higher Plane of the Funk Groove (Sly and the body/mind/spirit unification)
• The Collective: Tribalism in a Post-Industrial World (Funk blends genres, blends cultures as long as it’s “On the One”)
• The Epic: P-Funk Earth Tour and Beyond (The …

Program: 2021 Dayton Funk Symposium And Line Dance Party, University Of Dayton

Content Presented at the First and Second Dayton Funk Symposia

Program includes a welcome from Sharon Davis Gratto, Graul Chair in Arts and Languages; a schedule of presentations; and biographies of presenters, performers, and panelists.

My Winter Wonderland, Lucie Frost

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

It’s 67 degrees out, going up to 84 today in San Antonio. Do you know what that means? Boot weather. Winter is finally here.

The Pajama Game, Jerry Zezima

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Every day, no matter what time I get up, I look like I just rolled out of bed.

Humor Writer Of The Month: Liz Alterman, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Liz Alterman, whose memoir Sad Sacked will be released this month, is our Humor Writer of the Month for November.

Program: Through The Looking Glass, And What You Found There, University Of Dayton, Teejai Dorsey

Dance and Theater Programs

Co-produced by the Theatre, Dance, and Performance Technology program and the Department of Music

What do you see when you look in the mirror? If you were on the other side looking back, in a land of opposites, how would your perception of reality be altered? Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There reflect the larger truths that underscore our social experience in this constantly changing nonsensical world. Journey with us through a wonderland of mystery and delight while exploring who we were, who we are, and who we are yet to become in this dramatic …

Introduction To Special Issue, Music In World Religions: A Response To Isabel Laack, Heather Maclachlan

Department of Music Faculty Publications

This article serves to introduce a special issue of Religions, titled Music in World Religions. A 2015 article by religion scholar Isabel Laack claimed that the study of music and religion has been neglected by Laack’s peers in the field of religions. Responding to Laack, I argue that scholars of music have been making important contributions to the study of music and religion and, indeed, have been addressing the twelve specific topics she highlights for decades. After summarizing academic works which respond to Laack’s twelve categories of inquiry, I introduce each of the articles in this special issue, showing that …

The Experience Of A White Professor Teaching Diversity Courses In The Midwest, Corinne Brion

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

Facilitators of diversity courses in higher education institutions face multiple challenges because these courses are emotionally charged for students and facilitators alike. To date, there is a limited number of recent papers that focus on the reflections of professors from the dominant culture who teach diversity online and face-to-face graduate courses. The present paper fills this gap by describing the experiences of a White, French assistant professor in the Midwest of the United States. This paper also provides recommendations for practitioners.

Native American Heritage Resources: History, Images, Language, Arts, Maureen Schlangen

University Libraries Blog Archive

Technology has made documents, images, music, art and languages more accessible for the study of Native American culture and history.

Channel Your Inner Erma — And Win!, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Sharpen your pencils! Flex your fingers over the keyboard! Entries for the Erma Bombeck Writing Competition will be accepted Nov. 30-Jan. 4.

Resampling And Super-Resolution Of Hexagonally Sampled Images Using Deep Learning, Dylan Flaute, Russell C. Hardie, Hamed Elwarfalli

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Super-resolution (SR) aims to increase the resolution of imagery. Applications include security, medical imaging, and object recognition. We propose a deep learning-based SR system that takes a hexagonally sampled low-resolution image as an input and generates a rectangularly sampled SR image as an output. For training and testing, we use a realistic observation model that includes optical degradation from diffraction and sensor degradation from detector integration. Our SR approach first uses non-uniform interpolation to partially upsample the observed hexagonal imagery and convert it to a rectangular grid. We then leverage a state-of-the-art convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture designed for SR …

A Woodland Path, Diane Osman, Amy Rohmiller, Shari Neilson, Henry Handley

University Libraries Blog Archive

UD students are exploring history and legacy through archival items, library materials and Woodland Cemetery stories in a new PATH-eligible online module.

More Memes: Popular Visual Literacy Program Offered Again, Jillian Ewalt, Bridget Retzloff

University Libraries Blog Archive

Capitalizing on a visual trend from social media, librarians Jillian Ewalt and Bridget Retzloff use a lighthearted learning module to teach visual literacy and spur creativity. It's open to all through Nov. 15.

Ask An Archivist, Amy Rohmiller, Stephanie Shreffler, Kayla Harris, Katy Kelly

University Libraries Blog Archive

For American Archives Month, the University Libraries archivists answer intriguing questions about UD archives and beyond.

You Might Not Realize It, But You're Probably Reading An Open Access Article ..., Simon Robins

University Libraries Blog Archive

To celebrate Open Access Week (Oct. 25-31), coordinator of electronic resources and discovery Simon Robins describes UD's usage of open access content in learning and research.

National Institutes Of Health Awards $1.65 Million To University Of Dayton Researchers To Study Genetic Basis Of Childhood Diseases And Birth Defects In Human Eye, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The National Institutes of Health awarded University of Dayton geneticists Amit Singh and Madhuri Kango-Singh a five-year, $1.65 million grant to study how genes regulate three-dimensional patterning and growth during early eye development to understand the genetic basis of childhood retinal diseases and birth defects in the human eye.

Soaring On Eagle's Wings, Eric F. Spina

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

University of Dayton President Eric F. Spina ​reflects on the Marianist influence throughout campus during a vow ceremony for the newest cohort of Marianist Educational Associates.

Program: Laced, University Of Dayton, Teejai Dorsey

Dance and Theater Programs

by Sam Mueller

The Kilroys List 2020, selected play

October 20-23, 2021

Fitz Hall’s Black Box Theatre & Live-Streamed

The night after a queer bar outside of Tampa, Florida is vandalized, three twenty-something bartenders gather to grieve, rage, and above all, piece together the events of the night before. Fiery and poetic, Laced ferociously celebrates the spaces in which we find our truest selves. In a time of renewed culture wars against queer youth, this play centers the voices of those intersectional identities we should be listening to now.

Ud To Dedicate Hathcock Hall, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton will honor the legacy of Jessie S. Hathcock, a noted educator and humanitarian who was the first African American woman to graduate from UD, by formally dedicating a building in her name on Oct. 22.

Ud Men For Gender Equity Newsletter, October 2021, University Of Dayton. Women's Center

UD Men for Gender Equity Newsletter

Welcome Message

Upcoming Engagement Opportunities:

• Men's Virtual Coffee Hour
• Men's Work in Gender Equity: From Self-Reflection to Action

Results of the Women's Center 2021 Survey on COVID-19, Gender and Caretaking

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month!

1. Awe-Inspiring TED Talks
2. Did You Know? Scholarly Literature Rarely Features Latina Academics

Announcements

Share Your Experience

Create Art From Clay, Larry Burgess

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Forming art out of the Earth.

Grandpa Was A Flyer Fan, Thomas M. Columbus

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Ella Dapore remembers her grandfather, a life-long Flyer fan.

Making Memes: Teaching Visual Literacy In A (Fun) Remote Environment, Jillian M. Ewalt, Bridget Retzloff

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

How can you use humor to relieve pandemic fatigue while teaching visual literacy? At the University of Dayton, librarians developed an asynchronous session on visual literacy and internet memes. The session introduced students to fair use, public domain and Creative Commons images and tools for determining how they could be remixed or reused. The interactive tutorial included an active learning component where students created their own fun and lighthearted memes. Memes were shared with permission via the library’s social media channels and not only showcased student work but built community through humor in spite of pandemic isolation. This poster covers …

Dayton Literary Peace Prize Prize Marks 15th Anniversary, Scott N. West

University Libraries Blog Archive

Scott West shares the newest winners and finalists and invites readers to stop in, browse and check out a book from the Libraries' complete collection of Dayton Literary Peace Prize honorees.

Write Down Everything!, Mandy Fernandez

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

As English professor Brother Tom Price told Erma Bombeck “You can write,” I want to encourage everyone I know and even those I don’t know or will never meet to “Write down everything!” That’s my three words of advice.

Greater West Dayton Incubator Names New Director, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Whitney Barkley, a small business owner who brings experience working with small companies and international nonprofits, has been named director of the Greater West Dayton Incubator, an initiative to support Black, woman and other underrepresented entrepreneurs.

What It Takes To Bridge The Access And Success Gap For Lower-Income Students, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

Higher education, national organizations and legislators across the country are advocating to double the Pell grant, writes University of Dayton President Eric Spina in Diverse Issues in Higher Education. It's a transformative opportunity to improve enrollment of lower-income students at a time when they continue to experience the most adverse impacts of the pandemic.