{"id":1514,"date":"2023-05-29T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2023-05-29T18:11:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T18:11:10","slug":"story-11-al-naipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/2023\/05\/29\/story-11-al-naipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Story #11: Al Naipo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1515\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/05\/11-Al-Naipo-50-for-50-300x169.png\" alt=\"Profile picture and text: 50 FOR 50 STORIES: Story #11: Al Naipo\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/05\/11-Al-Naipo-50-for-50-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/05\/11-Al-Naipo-50-for-50-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/05\/11-Al-Naipo-50-for-50-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/05\/11-Al-Naipo-50-for-50-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/05\/11-Al-Naipo-50-for-50-1280x720.png 1280w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/05\/11-Al-Naipo-50-for-50.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Story #11: Al Naipo<\/h1>\n<p class=\"story-byline\"><strong>By Olivia Corish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This week, we hear from Al Naipo! Naipo is a USC alum who participated in JEP in 1980 \u2013 here\u2019s his story.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201dAs a USC student participating in JEP, I was able to return to high school\u2026 Not mine, but Manual Arts High, just a few blocks from campus. I had actually been there a few years earlier to play in a football game representing my school, Westchester High.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy assignment was to teach a class of students on a few topics of my choosing. I thought it might be interesting to look at music, specifically, how one genre like Country or Western may have influenced Rock n Roll or Rhythm &amp; Blues. I could see that some of the students thought that was crazy, especially since it appeared that many in this inner-city school were not familiar with Country music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cNow, add to the fact that here I was, an African-American, and a big guy at that, talking about country music of which I knew quite a bit because my dad listened to it all the time, which meant I did too. The students were a bit perplexed but many became interested as I was able to make some connections by playing songs with some tunes they were familiar with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI truly enjoyed my time at JEP. It&#8217;s something that I likely would&#8217;ve never done had it not been for that program. Some 40 years later, I wonder if any of those students remember those lessons. I know I do and I always will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[37,12,13],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-50-for-50-stories","category-archive","tag-37","tag-50-for-50","tag-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Story #11: Al Naipo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/2023\/05\/29\/story-11-al-naipo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Story #11: Al Naipo - 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