{"id":765,"date":"2015-10-06T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/?p=765"},"modified":"2015-10-06T15:10:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T15:10:14","slug":"minnesota-musical-group-draws-on-scott-gacs-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/2015\/10\/06\/minnesota-musical-group-draws-on-scott-gacs-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Musical Group Draws on Scott Gac\u2019s Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, <a href=\"http:\/\/internet2.trincoll.edu\/facProfiles\/Default.aspx?fid=1299444\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Gac<\/a>, undergraduate and graduate director of American studies and associate professor, published <a href=\"http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\/book.asp?isbn=9780300111989\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Singing For Freedom<\/em><\/a>, a book about New Hampshire\u2019s Hutchinson Family Singers, America\u2019s most popular musical act in the years leading up to the Civil War. This year, he collaborated with Minnesota\u2019s Rose Ensemble on a musical adaptation of their story and recreation of their performances.<\/p>\n<p>The Hutchinson Family Singers were pioneers of the American protest song and transformed American popular culture. In April, Gac joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2015\/04\/30\/hutchinson-family-singers\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Public Radio<\/a> to talk about the Hutchinson family, their 19th century superstardom, and the Rose Ensemble\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sA1CmPoPOYg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, Scott Gac, undergraduate and graduate director of American studies and associate professor, published Singing For Freedom, a book about New Hampshire\u2019s Hutchinson Family Singers, America\u2019s most popular musical act in the years leading up to the Civil War. This year, he collaborated with Minnesota\u2019s Rose Ensemble on a musical adaptation of their story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1424,"featured_media":767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[220,221,51,219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}