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What
Makes Our Show Spectacular:
Each
week is fashioned as an hour-long entry in an audio dictionary
– but this dictionary is not written by academics or
other adults, these are definitions created by teens from
Sonoma County to tell you their take on a certain expression.
Each
week, we choose either a slang expression used by a certain
groups of teens in conversation among friends, OR an expression
that some teens use in a very different way from the way adults
do. For example, one week it might be “shred,”
a very specialized used among skaters, and one week it might
be “freedom,” and we’d be looking at how
President Bush used the word in his inauguration speech versus
what local kids hear in that word.
We
put out the call to our team of youth from all over the county
to think of stories, songs, discussion points that tease out
the subtleties of the usage of the expression and the implications
of how and when it is used.
In
the same way that those huge Oxford English Dictionary entries
start off simple by giving you the most common definitions,
the teens kick off shows by introducing the expression, listing
some definitions from the web or reference books, and asking
people on the street what they think the expression means.
And
then, just like the OED branches out to multiple definitions
in different fields and history, giving examples of usage
in a sentence, we feature pre-produced stories that bring
up an aspect of the expression, it’s origin, usage,
or effect, in a very particular context. Our kids debate and
discuss the stories and then weave all these elements with
in-studio interviews and phone interviews and music related
to the expression.
At
the end of each show, with any luck, you’ll come away
with a new manifestation of two basic discoveries: how different
and unique expression is among a diverse group of youth, AND
how, despite the dramatic divides between youth around the
county, country and world, how common many of their concerns
can be when distilled to their essence in the course of an
hour-long radio magazine.
How’s
that for a teeny teen radio program’s goal? Ostentatious
enough for ya?
Without
further ado, we hope you’ll get listening- we post every
Monday, and we hope you’ll tell your friends, and send
any thoughts, criticisms or questions to: Tatiana_Harrison@krcb.org
or call 477 8116.
One
word of caution: these are not “radio edits,”
as in, since they’re on the web, we’ve left in
profanity and other elements that are not in line with FCC
standards and thus, might not be appropriate for some listeners.
Just a word of caution that you are getting the raw, real
expression of youth with these shows, so be prepared…
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