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For \u201cMaking Music Behind Barbed Wire<\/a>\u201d on Saturday, Takasawa and soprano Yuriko Nonaka, a guest artist, will perform traditional folks songs, piano and vocal pieces by Japanese composers, and popular songs by George Gershwin and Cole Porter \u2013 with each work punctuating a point of Takasawa\u2019s talk on the internment camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During World War II, the U.S. incarcerated about 127,000 people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, in about 75 concentration camps, mostly on the West Coast \u2013 in what today is considered one of the worst violations of American civil rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy focus for the lecture and recital is to shed some light on how the residents kept their spirits up and remained productive under the most unusual circumstances,\u201d said Takasawa. \u201cResidents largely managed their camp themselves, children went to school, and there were religious and social gatherings. Cultural and social activities were a large part of the life in these camps, which helped the residents forget their daily inconveniences temporarily and cope with the injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThrough learning about the daily life of camp residents, I would like the audience members to learn how people can be resilient under unfortunate circumstances,\u201d he added. \u201cThe Japanese Americans somehow made the most of the situation and still were able to create something beautiful in such things as musical performances, artworks, and gardens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Takasawa has researched the interments for the last couple of years, conducting interviews, reviewing archival work, visiting camp sites and areas and neighborhoods associated with Japanese Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt has been over 40 years since I moved to the United States from my childhood hometown in Japan, and I have increasingly been interested in the lives of immigrants, Japanese Americans in particular,\u201d said Takasawa, who will present his research at a music conference in Japan in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMaking Music Behind Barbed Wire\u201d starts at 3 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Fine Arts Center, 105 Upper College Road, on the Kingston campus. Tickets are $15 for general admission; $10 for students and seniors; children under 12 are admitted free. For tickets, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On <\/strong>Sunday, March 26<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>the Music Department hosts VOICES 21C, a Boston-based, community-focused artists\u2019 collective, for a concert that explores mass incarceration in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have a strong relationship with them. They have many 溏心vlog免费B站 alumni who sing with them,\u201d said Mark Conley, director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Concert Choir. \u201cThey do important work and they are at the forefront of the movement to take on issues of social justice. It\u2019s important for our students to be exposed to their message.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n VOICES 21C, directed by Andr\u00e9 de Quadros, is dedicated to advancing issues of social justice in the U.S. and abroad, highlighting voices of those who have been silenced, forgotten or marginalized and challenging the understanding of race and the prison industrial complex. The choir will perform about a dozen works that will include spoken-word artists Truth and Onyx White, who were formerly incarcerated. The Concert Choir will perform welcoming and closing songs, and may join VOICES 21C during its set, Conley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The performance is at 5:30 p.m. Sunday in the Concert Hall of the Fine Arts Center, 105 Upper College Road. Tickets are $15 for general admission; $10 for students and seniors; children under 12 are admitted free. For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 21, 2023 \u2013 On back to back nights this weekend, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Concert Hall will ring with the sound of music and issues of social justice. 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