US Progressivism during the 20^th c

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

Progress is defined as improvements in the  human condition through economic development, modernization, arts and the application of science and technology.

Jan. 4 2017, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT. 

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What’s Music Got to Do with it?

 Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

from Baroque to contemporary melodies….. a recap of this year’s selection of music and their directly and indirect association with 2016’s Beneath the Waves program topics. 

Dec.28, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT. 

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 US Philanthropy in the 20^th century

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

In 1835 French political scientist and historian Alexis de Tocqueville observed that private initiatives for public good were a distinguishing feature of the American character and culture and a key to American democracy.  What happened in the 20^th century USA? 

Dec.21, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT. 

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San Francisco’s Saint Francis Hotel

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

Dec 14 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT. 

The  St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California, originally built in 1904 and reconstructed after the 1906 earthquake, was financed by the trustees of the estate of Charles Crocker, one of "The Big Four" railroad magnates who built part of the transcontinental railway.  St Francis Hotel was a major jazz destination during the 1920s, hosted numerous politicians and celebrities and began an iconic part of the city.  

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RED VIENNA  (1918 – 1934)

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

Vienna, the capital of Austria, was coined Red Vienna between 1918 and 1934, when the Social Democrats had the majority and the city was democratically governed for the first time.

Dec 7, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT.  

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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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The Mechanics of Color  

Wednesday, 12noon – 2pm PT   February 24-, 2016

(re-broadcasted on the next Friday, 2 - 4pm PT <KGGV.FM>)

Beneath the Waves host Gerry Takano

In 1982 American author Alice Walker (Color Purple), coined the term “colorism” and discussed how color is not synonymous to racism.  Skin color is only one mechanism used to assign, repress and limit individuals to a racial category.  Colorism is the dependence of social status on skin color alone. In order to understand discrimination based on colorism, differential treatment must not result from racial categorization, but from the social values associated with skin color.

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Militarism in early 20^th century Japan

Wednesday, 12noon – 2pm PT    February 17, 2016    

Beneath the Waves host Gerry Takano

After the Russo-Japanese War (1905), Japan determined not be subjugated and humiliated by European powers and proceeded to establish greater political and economic control of Asia.  During the 1920s Japan’s Imperial army and navy established military veto power over in the country’s Parliament.  In addition, a coup d'état ended with the killing of government’s leading members -- the incident strengthened military rule, chaos and instability in early 20th century Japan.

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the Warhol Experience

Wednesday, 12noon – 2pm PT    February 10, 2016    

Beneath the Waves     host Gerry Takano

"15 minutes of fame".. American pop artist Andy Warhol was a prominent figure in the 1960s avant garde art movement originating in New York City, NY USA. Warhol founded the magazine Interview, managed the rock group The Velvet Underground; Warhol was one of the first to use Amiga computers to generate art.  His NYC studio, The Factory, was a gathering place for intellectuals, openly gay men and lesbians, drag queens, playwrights, NYC street people, Hollywood celebrities, artists, and wealthy patrons.

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