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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