When I'm in a car riding down the street there is only one radio station that I really enjoy, KXHT 107.1. The music they play is quite specific. They are a hip-hop and R&B station that plays mostly southeastern groups. Hip-hop is quite new to me having really only gotten into it in the early years of high school were as I liked rock since childhood. It was for this reason and a few others that I decided to interview a personality from Hot 107 as they are nicknamed.
Memphis is the first city that I have been to that has a station such as Hot 107 that plays only rap and R&B. Most other places will only have songs that are mainstream and then they are only played on the dance music stations. The other main reason I chose KXHT was its involvement on the campus at the University of Memphis.For my assignment I chose to interview one of the daytime radio personalities named Playboy. Playboy is actually a 25-year-old gentleman by the name of Tre Munson.
For his current job, radio personality and promotion assistant, he goes on the road and DJ's for special events both live and not. Most recently he and another disc jockey, Kid Fresh, hosted a step show in front of the UC at the University. He has done parties, concerts, charity events, and many other functions. About two weeks ago he also covered the after party for Method Man and Red Man, two nationally known rap music artists.Though he has only worked at the station for a few years he has already started on his way up the corporate later.
When he originally came to the station he did so by the means of simply filling out a job application. He did not meet with success at his first couple of attempts. He actually had to go in and fill out quite a few and after that had to keep calling and pestering them until the finally offered him a job. Not the job he wanted, however, he was first just a support member for a street team. He felt that it was still a good way to get his foot in the door and he would be able to show the station he could do more for them elsewhere.After a few months of street team he was finally selected to become a personality.
Windsor’s station, CKOK first came onto the air in 1932 and it was a station that played more “friendly and folksy” music. In 1933 the call letters were changed to CKLW and in 1941, it moved to its current position of AM800 . Throughout the years, television was drastically changing and was creating fierce competition with the radio industry. To be able to keep up with the times, CKLW had to change to stay in the game. One modification was the change of ownership. In 1963, RKO took over the station and CKLW became CKLW- The Big 8 and they focused on playing contemporary hits and rock and roll music, as we...
Today, CKLW is a news and information station for the Windsor-Essex community. Now in Windsor, Detroit radio dominates once again. Now, 68% of Windsorites listen to Detroit radio stations. The Big 8 still had a tremendous influence in shaping the face of radio, in creating megahits in music industry, and held a huge community presence in its hometown of Windsor, Ontario. CKLW was a small town radio station that became one of the biggest radio sensations of the 1960’s and1970’s. The Big 8 developed into an icon for not only music and radio; but, also brought out the music fanatic in everyone.
The fight for racial equality is one of the most prominent issues Americans have faced throughout history and even today; as the idea that enslaving individuals is unethical emerged, many great and innovative authors began writing about the issues that enslaved people had to face. Olaudah Equiano was no exception. In his work The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, he attempts to persuade his readers that the American way of slavery is brutal, inhumane, and unscrupulous. Equiano manages to do this by minimizing the apparent differences between himself and his primarily white audience, mentioning the cruelties that he and many other slaves had to face, and the advantages of treating your slaves correctly.
Memphis is considered to be a dangerous city by many around the country with not many attractions besides Martin Luther king, jr. What they do not know is that Memphis is full of rich music and history. Various genres have made an impact on people’s daily lives such as gospel, soul, funk, blues, jazz, R&B, pop, country, and rap. Stax records were found in in 1957 which was known as satellite radio at the time. Stax has made a major impact on helping the lives of people in Memphis. Stax has overlooked the obstacles of color and racism by giving many artists of different races the opportunity they dreamed of. Stax has made a major impact by helping the lives of people in Memphis, breaking color and racism barriers, and most importantly by making music. (Stax Museaum)
His identity was very twofold: African and English. For instance, Equiano had not just one African name, “Olaudah Equiano”, but a second English one as well. Equiano interchanged his African name with the name he was given by his master, “Gustavas Vassa”. In daily life Equiano used these two names, but the fact that Equiano takes the time to include both of these names in the title of his narrative shows that even his primary way of identifying himself – his name – was bicultural. This dichotomy of Equiano’s cultural identification may suggest that he does not fully participate in his African identity and he therefore cannot be a true representative of their humanity. If Equiano considers himself to be just as African as he is English, is his assimilation into European culture demonstrating the humanity of black
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A native of the Ibo tribe of Nigeria, Africa, and author of “An African Narrative by Olaudah Equiano (1791)”, Olaudah Equiano endured a cruel and inhumane life of slavery. Kidnapped and carried aboard a ship by both Africans and European traders, Equiano became a victim of slavery at the ripe age of eleven. Although Equiano was familiar with slavery, due to his father owning slaves, it became very apparent to him that the “Euro-American concept of slavery was quite different from the African one” (1791). Reduced to a lifestyle so harsh, he often saw death as an attractive alternative, with many of his fellow companions who existed in the same or sometimes worse lifestyle, in fact, choosing death to escape the ruthless, barbarous, and torturous treatment that was the life of a slave. Despite facing slavery on several fronts, Africa, West Indies and Europe, and though the treatment he received and the people he encountered differed, Equiano managed to survive. Though he
Equiano was the embodiment of politicized transition from oral to literature culture. After a forceful removal from Africa, Equiano found himself in West indie as a slave, he then had to adapt to the new culture and system of expression. Having come from a society where information and power was associated with oral expression, he quickly found out that in this new land reading and writing are the empowering tool with which an African can free himself. The conflict between the two cultures is depicted in Equiano’s first contact with a book, where he wrote of how he was often curious whenever he saw his master reading a book, and he was eager to talk to the book as he thought the books were eager to talk to him (Equiano 69)
During the late seventeen hundreds former slave, Olaudah Equiano, began his autobiography. In the introduction he clarifies his reason for writing the account; informing his audience that he does not seek fame and fortune and is merely a humble man who wishes to persuade the audience to promote the abolition of slavery and to articulate the horrors of enslavement. Equiano provides a voice for those who were not allowed to advocate for themselves and their rights. He aims to eradicate the idea that slaves are second class versions of a human beings that are treated as objects, diminishing their worth and personal value. Equiano pursues this goal by blending his belief of religion, slavery, and personal adventure with a complexity that appeals
In, conclusion the experiences of Equiano’s servitude in Africa differed from his experience in England. The African slave trade primarily was based upon providing jobs to families or punishment to real criminals. Many times the cruel example of being kidnapped from your village and forced into this way of life was also prevalent. This narrative contains the terrifying events of a young a child being held captive. The sources we have of the truth from this period of time are limited and hard to obtain. Servitude still exists to today in many parts of Africa and will remain a common part of their
These target groups spend an extraordinary amount of time listening to radio, especially in the car, and should be extremely receptive to the XM product due to their constant need for radio entertainment and willingness to pay for it.
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The first call I made was to a radio station program director who told me, ‘Yes, I know this record, and no, I’m not going to play it.’When I asked why, he said, ‘I think a song about older women with younger men might offend my male listeners. ‘I said, ‘Are you telling me you've played it and received complaints?’
Equiano stated that, “[t]ourtures, murder, and every other imaginable barbarity and iniquity are practiced upon the poor slaves with impunity (p.234).” European society considered enslaved individuals to be cattle. The living conditions of the slaves were the same or in some cases worse than livestock. Slaves were starved, beaten, and killed for some of the most obscene reasons such as: as stealing food to feed their children or trying to escape the horrendous wrath of their owners. However, Equiano explained how being a free slave was worse than being enslaved. He encountered a free slave in the Caribbean who was still treated as a slave. This individual was forced to move from the Caribbean to another location. Even though these individuals are coined as “free”, the freedom for former slaves is limited. The transition from a free individual to a slave and back to a “free” slave was a rare occurrence during the time of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Equiano’s experiences and determination to dissolve the enslavement of Africans made me reevaluate my standing on the influence of different countries on slavery. Equiano’s memoir would be an excellent source for history courses because it reveals the truth behind African enslavement
As per her research, India was the largest client of World Bank. She explained about some projects and their conditions and realities. In India there was the Narmada Valley Development Plan, according to this plan, the Indian government planned to build the Sardar Sarovar Dam across the Narmada River. According to Caufield land of 320,000 people was acquired, which involved a large portion of native people and the correct figure for them was 225,000 .In 1991, there was independent assessment was conducted by Bank for Project which concluded that it has badly affected the flora and fauna of India by pollution .There was a lot of silting and salinization in water due to the project causing a major ecological problem. Ironically it could provide only half the irrigation water promised. In 1992, bank abandoned the project. It was not the end there were many projects of the bank which acclaimed only criticism for e.g. Sardar Sarovar Project, Karjan Dam, Damanganga Project .In the Indonesia, the implementation of proposed project caused devastation of island soil. Bank was concentrated only on GNP and completely neglected the ecological factors that the soil on the external islands was poor. Caufield quotes with approval a former Bank economist, Herman Daly: “It doesn’t do you any good to have thousands of highly educated