Soundings

Producer: Nya Hughes From the rhyming styles of breakbeat poets and Bronx backyard jams of the 1980s, hip-hop sprang forth from the heart of urban black culture to give voice to the silenced narratives of black communities. The rhythm of resistance. Uncontainable, the sound waves traveled much farther than the national border. In the 1990s, young Cubans living in the barrio of Alamar resonated with the rhythms and attitude in the music and adopted the art form as their own. Moving through this rich oral history and into the present, we will hear the way hip-hop brought these two cultures together in a perfect storm. Thank you to Luna Gallegos, Laura Cantana, Rolando Almirante, Dr. Cecil Brown, Jeff Chang, “The Wizard”/ “El Brujo,” Yulier, La Rafa El Individuo, and Alejandra Zamora for your honesty and warmth throughout the interview process. Music: The Message – Grandmaster Flash Get By – Talib Kweli Latino & Proud – DJ Raff Tengo – Hermanos De Causa Mi Raza - El Individuo 1981 SPECIAL REPORT: “SOUTH B

How does one build a new home after losing all of one’s family? A son interviews his mother, a Cambodian refugee and genocide survivor, about her experience resettling in the U.S. He learns how her past has shaped his life. Producer: Bunnard Phan Featuring: Nickie Phan, Bunnard Phan, Music: Khnom Min Sok Chet Te by Pan Ron Chnam oun Dop-Pram Muy by Ros Sereysothea Orchestral version of “Unchained Melody” by the Righteous Brothers performed at The (Military) Music Show of Nations 2002 Bremen, Germany (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejm3Q5ZKr28)

Explore the ties between language and identity in South Africa with two women who see Afrikaans as the language of reconciliation. Two women in South Africa are currently challenging the assumption that Afrikaans is solely the language of the oppressor. One is a poet. The other runs a community radio station. Through a retelling of the true history of the language and the people who created the language, words arise that begin to break down the ties between language and identity over 20 years post-apartheid: “you can’t blame a language for what a group of people did with it.” Producer: Isaac Goldstein Music: The last offering, Sunhiilow No sudden movements, Rui Magic Torquoise, Sunhiilow Butterfly Lullaby, Possimiste

In Abra, a province of the northern Philippines, members of several indigenous communities - collectively called the Tinggian - are fighting to protect their histories. Listen to the stories of an elder charged with upholding a centuries-old peace pact; a pastor whose ancestors fought as revolutionaries; a mayor who evaded assassination to build a school in his hometown; and a weaver who’s made it her mission to revive a tradition of ritual and weaving. Producer: Ethan Chua Featuring: Elder Bansilan Sawadan Elder Johnny Guinaban Pastor Ruben Elder Norma Mina With thanks to: Ate Minda Guinaban Raffy Tejero The Center for Community Transformation (CCT) My parents, Ronald and Anabelle Chua Music Podington Bear

Producer: Alyssa Vann Description: This podcast explores the burgeoning natural hair movement in the Dominican Republic, where the vast majority of women prefer to straighten their hair. In doing so, it explores the intersections of race, gender, and history in the country’s capital. Music: All music recorded in the plaza in the Colonial District of Santo Domingo, or in salons.

As indigenous people from Mexico migrate to California, their languages and cultures are threatened. One indigenous trilingual rapper based in Fresno is fighting back. “We are taught that we're not valuable, we are taught that we have no history, we are ignorant, we don’t have richness of culture…. I’m trying to turn everything around.” Miguel Villegas Ventura came to the US at age 7 speaking only Mixteco, an indigenous language spoken by the Ñuu Savi nation in the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Guerrero and Puebla. He came of age in Fresno, California, amidst poverty, bullying and the constant pressure to hide his roots. But when Miguel learned the history of Una Isu, a 12th century Mixteco warrior, everything changed. Today Miguel demands respect and dignity through trilingual hip hop. Like Una Isu, he seeks to unite indigenous Mexicans who have found a new home in the United States. Producer: Jackie Botts Featuring voices of Miguel Villegas, Leoncio Vasquez and Irma Luna Music: “Mixteco es un Lengua

Sandbranch is a community outside of Dallas that hasn’t had running water or well water for decades, but the residents refuse to leave. Founded by former slaves, it used to be a thriving town of over 500 people. In the 1980s, its wells were contaminated. The residents have been fighting for running water ever since. Now, led by a pastor, an environmental lawyer, and past and present residents of the community, Sandbranch is on the brink of change. Producer: Claudia Heymach featuring: Eugene Keahey, Mary Nash, John Wiley Price, Mark McPherson, Ivory Hall, Chess Jones, and the choir of Mt Zion baptist church. Special Thanks: Carol Francois, Clay Jenkins, Edward Shore, the residents of Sandbranch, Catherine Girardeau, Jackson Roach, and Jake Warga. Music: Music used (Title(s), Artist, Album. Include links and permissions) From freesound.org: Slow Sad Tones by TJ Mothy https://freesound.org/people/TJ%20Mothy/sounds/92734/ Wind Howl 2 by swiftoid https://freesound.org/people/swiftoid/sounds/117610/

Producer: Megan Calfas After delivering one child, the Head Nurse Nassara turns around, changes her gloves, and delivers another. In Mnazi Mmoja Hospital, Zanzibar, 30-50 babies are born a day. Often, in the maternity ward, there are only 3-4 nurses working at a time. As the largest public hospital in Zanzibar, Mnazi Mmoja faces the island’s high rate of maternal mortality head on, yet, the root of the problem is hard to uncover--it’s tangled up in a much larger system. This piece would not be possible without the Program in Global Health Technologies at Boston University led by Dr. Zaman, the Stanford Storytelling Project, and the kindness of everyone at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital. Music: Rui -- “Caress me to Sleep”, “Selbstheilend”, “No sudden movements”, Johnny Ripper --”Nicolas”, Orbique-- “Simple”, Cuban Cowboys-- “Outro”

A touching and honest non-narrated produced portrait of one of the first people to be detained at JFK under the initial Trump travel ban order. Stanford PhD student traveling from Sudan: Nisrin Abdelrahman Aired on: http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/the-doc-project/segment/13703580 https://www.radioproject.org/2017/09/arrival-trumps-travel-refugee-ban/ http://kalw.org/post/stanford-grad-student-was-one-first-trump-travel-ban-detainees#stream/0 “80s interlude” (Album: Or Up We Fall), by Fanas “Theme 4”, “Sleep”, “Intermission” & “In a Dream” (soundtrack for a film that doesn't exist), by Johnny Ripper “Data” (don't), by Johnny Ripper

Final Script - Matt Klein START Its been pretty active with home burglaries and stuff like that - so we are going to do some supression, make contacts, stuff like that - do some traffic enforcement - {pause} see what happens Eddie’s an officer with the menlo park police department- We start the day by going to a recent hotspot for crime. We park and idle in a shady spot near an intersection and eddie begins to size up each car that drives by. He’s looking for suspicious vehicles and probable cause to pull them over. We pull over a chevy impala for having excessively tinted windows. Eddie tells me to stay in the cruiser so I watch him slowly approach the car- he waves and smiles at the grandma in the back seat, talks to the driver of the car for a couple of minutes- Suddenly he runs back to the cruiser, jumps in and we zoom off Eddie had seen a suspicious SUV fly by us with tinted windows and no license plates, so he gave the first vehicle a warning, and we chase after the SUV We pull them

Intro Hook: Cascade of 911 What’s Your Emergency sound bites. If you ever call 911, you’re probably in a bit of a panic, and don’t really care who answers as long as they answer quickly Ambient noise from police HQ Menlo Park Police this is John. (1. 05:00) When a call comes in, John answers. My name is John Murphy. I work for the Menlo Park Police Department. I am a dispatcher here. I have been in this field for 28 years. (1. 00:00) Ambient noise from Police HQ. Act I: Spring Romantic ideal Call comes in: Language/Stress Music/Hum of John and Office. He takes the call. If necessary, he uses a 10-code language to dispatch patrolman. I have no idea what’s going on, but John explains, There is a whole 10 code 11 code. He said 1186 means he is making a traffic stop in the 800 block of Sharron Park Drive. She recorded the location and told him to go to the licence plate. That is what he did and he gave a color of the vehicle he stopped. That officer just said I’m 10-8 I’ll be in route to Robert 50. 1

Jennifer Manry Final Podcast Transcript By: Hannah Nguyen and Lea Zawada [Typing on keyboards, faint radio chatter, the phone rings.] JM: 911 emergency. I grew up in a law enforcement family. I was running around the police department since I was born. [Cue Music] [Narration:] Jennifer Manry is a dispatcher at the Menlo Park Police Department. She’s just celebrated her 28th birthday. She’s wearing the blue polo of the MPPD and on one of the many screens is a photo of her pug, wearing the same uniform. She grew up listening to exciting stories of cop life. JM: My dad was a sergeant for 30 years and he was at redwood city police department. They would tell me stories as i got older. [Narration:] Like the time he was in a shootout. JM: The guy was pointing a gun at his pregnant girlfriend and he had my dad on the ground and my dad just took a chance and shot the guy. The only thing he brought home with him was if he had a stressful day you could always tell. He was a little bit quieter he was a

“Mike” LifeMoves by Crystal Escolero [Introduction] Hi my name’s Mike. Grew up in Santa Clara. Good neighborhood. Decent anyway. Not rich. Not exactly poor. Depends who you ask. I went straight to work, in a machine shop. That’s when IBM used to give all their jobs to all the little teeny companies in the bay area. So, I had a great job for six months. Next thing I know everyone got laid off and everybody was out of work. So, then getting a job after that was...you know, I just turned 18. When you turn 18, it’s like “Oh you’re not trying hard enough. Get a job you bum.” And there were no jobs to get. All you can do is find little part time jobs. So, you never make a dime to do anything. Except feed yourself, buy your cigarettes, and drink your beer. I just got stuck in that realm...

Title: The Unthinkable Brink (working title) Elisabeth Dee & Tyler Brooks Kim: I would say keep your head down. I would say be careful. I would say that self-preservation is your upmost responsibility because until you can come out in a safe and open and caring environment, the system that you’re growing up in is designed to destroy you. So you may have to keep your head down. And it may be the thing that drives you to the brink. The unthinkable brink. Elisabeth #1: I’ve known Kimberly for eight years. She taught photography at my high school, right outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. There was something about her I was drawn to. I felt like she saw things in me I didn’t know where there. When she came out as intersex and transgender, I realized why we had been pulled into each other’s orbits: we were both outsiders. We were both Mormon and queer and struggling. Anchor #1: We regard same sex marriage as a particularly grievous or significant serious kind of sin that requires church discipline. Anchor #2

Summer is Missouri means humid air, fresh blackberries and lazy rivers. With my grandfather's 1971 river log in hand, I'm headed back to the Gasconade River in southern Missouri to recreate a portion of one of his long canoe trips. Can the river teach me things about my family’s Missouri heritage? By exploring the river, its history, and my grandfather's connection to it, I endeavor to better understand myself. Featuring: Maria Doerr, Cyrille Jourdain, Christine Doerr, Karen Doerr Hiatt, John Bradbury Producer: Maria Doerr Special Thanks: Claire Schoen Music: “Down in the River to Pray” Jean Banwarth, 2016 “Ebeneezer” Black Twig Pickers, 2012 “Aces and Twos” The Devil Makes Three, 2009 “Thought Soup” Doctor Turtle, 2016 “King of the Road” Roger Miller “Mid Day Blues” Tate Peterson, 2015

Two years after the death of one of Canada’s most beloved slam poets, Zaccheus Jackson is remembered for the work he did in mentoring the next generation of poets, showing pride in his Indigenous heritage, and building a vibrant, creative community. A poet, an arts educator, an artist, and a friend offer their thoughts on his legacy, then and now, as a former mentee travels to the places that started it all. Featuring: Zaccheus Jackson, Johnny Macrae, Marie Wustner, and Jillian Christmas Producer: Eva Louise Grant (evagrant@stanford.edu) Music: Dry Air - Poddington Bear Recorded samples of music (with artist's permission) Original compositions Grandfather Song - Mob Bounce Peace Era - Mob Bounce

A story about professionals in various fields involved in end-of-life caregiving. As a premedical student, I explored their experiences, both negative and positive, for the purposes of finding purpose and direction through my pre-professional journey (and in life). Featuring: Torrey Simons, MD, Joshua Fronk, MD, Jo Darius, Heather Shaw, NP, Vilma Buck, Colleen Vega, NP, Lynn Hutton, LCSW, Carol Stasio, LCSW, David Magnus, Ph.D Producer(s): Lauren Joseph, storytelling.stanford.edu Music: FreeSound.org, Podington Bear Production date: Dec. 12, 2016

Break Segment 3min

Conclusion 2min

Victim Segment 9min