On ‘n Poppin’ – October 12, 2006
October 12, 2006
What happens when you cross a Death Metal musician covered with tattoos of Beethoven, a rapper pushing carts with platinum dreams, and a crusader against the California high school exit exam?
The answer: This show.
Trippin – October 5, 2006
October 5, 2006
Every week the hosts of our show choose a term of teen slang and they marshall all our resources to define that term through stories and discussion.
Today’s term is “trippin”, and we’re starting off the show with a clip from the classic movie about trippin, that made many people trip out.
Caution – our hosts are goin to be giving away the end of this movie, so if you haven’t seen The Sixth Sense, you might want to turn down your radio for a few moments right about now…
WTF – September 28, 2006
September 28, 2006
Few things are more identified with teen culture than instant messaging, an Internet service that enables you to create a kind of private chat room with another individual, like a telephone conversation but using text-based, not voice-based, communication.
And NOTHING is more identified with instant messaging then the term “WTF”. Want to know more?
Kingpin – September 21, 2006
September 21, 2006
How can one word’s definition include lines of NASA computer code AND lines from one of the most quoted speeches in American History?!? You’ll find out in the following show…
Kingpin: For truckers, the “pin around which a steer axle’s wheels pivot”, for bowlers, “the pin which must be struck at a specific angle if all the pins are to be knocked down”. And for youth? Well that’s just what you’re going to hear about in this hour that includes an interview with Steve Squyres, the man behind the Mars Rover!
Voice of Youth – September 14, 2006
September 14, 2006
What do write Toni Morrison, rapper Eminem, artist MC Escher, and founding father John Adams have in common?
They are all the inspirations for our newly renovated weekly show.
In fact, this first show out of the gate could have a sub-heading that reads: these are a few of our favorite things.
Our show’s goal every week is to be a comprehensive definition of a certain word or phrase, a definition that shows the spectrum of teens for whom the word or phrase has meaning.
And this week’s phrase? Voice of Youth
The past three weeks, the hosts of the weekly show, Greg Shimada, Amanda Wells, and Laquoia Simmons have been focused on rehauling this model, re-defining the mechanics of the process and the aesthetics of the product they want to achieve for their weekly show.
Each member of the team had to think of what they loved in the world, what thing or person or phenomenon they are drawn to and want to emulate in some way here at Voice of Youth.
In face, the exercise of defining who they were as a production team mirrored the exercise of every show.
And so in this definition of Voice of Youth, you will be treated to a sample of what’s been inspiration to the hosts and what that means for the radio you will be hearing every week at this time.
Back In The Day – August 17, 2006
August 17, 2006
And now it’s time for you to enjoy Voice of Youth’s weekly show – each week our youngest correspondents and storytellers define a popular word or saying of teen slang.
This week’s term : “back in the day,” a colloquial catch-all phrase for referring to the past, but a certain sort of past.
Kids, take it away –
Wassup – August 8, 2006
August 3, 2006
This week our hosts continue the tradition of defining a word or phrase of teen slang, but leap from amateur lexicographers to rookie linguists…
Laquoia, 20 years old, Tyme 19, and Amanda, 16 use one of the most familiar phrases associatied with youth and turn it upside down and inside out to underscore the essence of our show … that language is much more than a simple message conveying information…
The dissection of this simple term – that many teens use 20 times a day – demonstrates the most fundamental concepts of Derridian deconstruction and Chomskian linguistics – how the tone and context of the message, and identity of the sender and the receiver, can influence the meaning that is interpreted.
Some words you hear will be foreign, some sentiments or facts may not sit well with you – we strive each week to present youth in the stark reality they live and move in, with the hope that the more real information we have on how they’re living, the more we can understand why they are dying, whether it’s the death of their physical body or their hopes or aspirations.
Without further ado…
Gaffle – July 27, 2006
July 27, 2006
Entry of the week: “gaffle”, slang for “to steal.”Our hosts take you from Beirut to NYC in order to map out their definition.
Guests include veteran foreign correspondent Kate Seelye and acclaimed columnist “The Ethicist”, Randy Cohen.
Ever wondered what exactly Hezbollah is? Ever wondered if it’s ok to steal something back that’s been stolen from you? It’s all just a click away…
Gangster – July 20, 2006
July 20, 2006
Entry this time around : “gangster.” From Japan post-World War II to present-day San Quentin, what does it mean to be “gangster”?Get ready for discussion, stories, raw sound from the streets, and sentiments from the heart…
-and what better way to kick off the show than the very first scene in the classic gangster trilogy of cinema.
My Bad – July 13, 2006
July 13, 2006
The hour you’re about to hear- packed with discussions and stories, sounds from the street, words from the heart- is fashioned as a kind of aural dictionary entry.
Entry of the week : “My Bad,” a peculiar teen form of apology.
Along with learning some new lingo, you may gain a new understanding of that household word, “apology”… starting with a collection of apologies the Voice of Youth kids wrote that they are waiting for…
Guests include psychiatrist and apology expert Dr. Aaron Lazar, and reparations expert and lawyer Dr. Roy L. Brooks.
