New Zealand in the 20^th century

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

New Zealand was the first country to give women the vote (1893) and to offer State pensions and state housing for workers.  Declining to join the Australian Federation in 1901, New Zealand became an independent 'dominion' in 1907. As part of the British Commonwealth, thousands of New Zealanders served and died overseas in the First World; the battle of Gallipoli in Turkey is regarded as a coming of age for the country.   

Nov 30, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT.

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1960s Brutalism

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

Brutalism, an architectural movement of mid-20th century Modernism, used ‘raw concrete’ as the primarily material of choice.  The Brutalist aesthetic is praised by some but criticized by others as intimidating, unwelcoming, cold and isolated from traces of the outside non-urban world.

November 23, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm      

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Journalism in the 20^th century

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

“Journalism is the reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting of news…Many news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government officials and institutions accountable to the public, while media critics have raised questions about holding the press itself accountable…. As powerful influences of public opinion, news organizations and journalists have a responsibility to act in the interest of the betterment of human society.”  The New York Times    

January 16, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-

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Charles Lindbergh and the kidnapping case

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

American pilot Charles Lindbergh, famous for his 1927 record-breaking flight from New York City to Paris, was a Nazi sympathizer who believed in eugenics and racial superiority.  The kidnapping of Lindbergh’s son, together with inefficient evidence, created suspicion that he masterminded of a conspiracy in the kidnap and murder of his little boy.

Nov 9, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm

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Privatization in the 20^th century

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

The transfer of  a nonprofit organizationor a profit business, enterprise, agency, public service, or public property from the public sector(a government) to the private sector has consequences on many levels.  Privatization also means government outsourcing of services or functions to private firms for services such as revenue collection, education, law enforcement, and prison management.

November 2, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm      

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San Francisco’s Chinatown

Established in 1848, San Francisco’s Chinatown is the oldest Chinatown in North America and has the largest, concentrated Chinese community outside of Asia.  San Francisco’s Chinatown’s history and culture reveal a significant aspect of immigration to North America from the East.

October 26, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

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The Controversy of the Sacco and Venzetti trial

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

During the early 1900s turmoil between labor and capital the guilty verdict of the infamous Boston Sacco and Venzetti murder case triggered riots and cries of innocence.  The climate of opinion, influenced by their foreignness as Italian immigrants and their anarchist political beliefs, was said to condemn them without a fair trial.  The actual truth of their role in the murders, however, may never be known.

October 19, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm and in KGGV.FM  archives    

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Walt Disney his theme park vision

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

Walt Disney, a commercial illustrator at the age of 18, moved to Hollywood, California in the early 1920s and set up the Disney Brothers Studio.  The character of Mickey Mouse was created in 1928. Disney later introduced synchronized sound, full-color three-strip Technicolor, feature-length cartoons and technical developments in cameras. 

October 12, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm and in KGGV.FM  archives    

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The Rise of the Mellon family Dynasty

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

The Gilded Age “rags to riches” story of the influential American Mellon family is often overlooked in discussions of wealthy American dynasties. The Mellons have been principal investors and majority owners of Gult Oil (Cheveron-Texaco), Alcoa, Westinghouse, H.J. Heinz, Newsweek, U.S. Steel, General Motors,s and many other corporations.  

October 5, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm and in KGGV.FM  archives    

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The German American Bund c. 1930s

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

The German American Bund, an American Nazi organization established in 1936, consisted only of American citizens of German descent.  Its main goal was to promote a favorable view of Nazi Germany.

September 28, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm and in KGGV.FM  archives    

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Brave New World

Brave New World, a 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley, is set in London around six hundred years in the future.  Human life has been entirely industrialized and controlled by a few people at the top of a World State.

September 21, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm and in KGGV.FM  archives 

Beneath the Waves history/music  host Gerry Takano

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Failures and Successes of 20^th c US PUBLIC HOUSING

20th century public housing was an altruistic government concept to help people, priced out of market rate housing, remain in urban locations rather than move away from the city.

September 14, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm and in KGGV.FM archives 

Beneath the Waves history/music  host Gerry Takano

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