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Girl-Song Primer & Undercurrent Radio Shows- KUCR
MySpace URL:
http://www.myspace.com/girlsongprimerradio
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Girl-Song Primer & Undercurrent Radio Shows- KUCR's Interests
General
Gender, Transgender, Queer, & Feminist Theory!
Music you can dance and live your life to!
You Can Help Me Create The Show! :)
* I want to make my show the best it can be, and I also want to involve my listeners and myspace friends in the process. I am always interested in suggestions about songs to play and conversations about what the show could be doing. I am also interested in co-curating "specials."
* I have developed some really good relationships with some of my listeners and with other djs, wherein it is a happy learning, sharing experience for everyone! And then the results get played on the radio! What could be better than that?
* I am also interested in interviewing local southern california (especially riverside, san bernardino, los angeles, etc.) activists who work on progressive or radical issues. This CAN be women's and queer rights issues, but they can also be immigrants' rights, human rights, anti-war, environmental, poverty, police accountability, and all other types of issues. If you or your group want to promote an event or talk about a progressive or radical issue, you can, on my show. I don't ONLY play music! :)
Anyhow, please feel free to chat me up about any of these things! :)
Music
How to get airplay (some helpful suggestions for bands):
* Know the programming on the station and see who might be most willing to play you. Most people will only play the music that they focus on, and if you aren't in their genre, they probably aren't the best person to target.
* Cultivate a relationship with that person (but don't be a stalker!). For example, become interested in their show, give them suggestions, post nice comments, etc.
* Send a cd to the station or directly to the DJ you think might play you.
* Enable downloads on your myspace (!!!), even if it is just one song. We can't play your music if we don't have access to it.
* Be a giver.
* Be patient. We go through a lot of music. We are also volunteers.
* Provide accurate lyrics sheets for profanity screening.
* Make sure at least some of your songs don't have profanity.
* If you don't get picked the first time you send in a cd, don't give up, you can still send in more material later when you have matured and advanced.
* Send the cd to other stations around the region, not just your local station.
Heroes
Assata Shakur, Kate Borenstein, Judith Butler, Bell Hooks, Donna Dresch, Nina Simone, Emma Goldman
Ma Rainey
Lois Maffeo
Ruth Brown Bikini Kill/Kathleen Hanna Team Dresch/Donna Dresch/Kaia Wilson
Girl-Song Primer & Undercurrent Radio Shows- KUCR's Details
My name is Elizabeth, and I was going to school at the University of California, Riverside. I am switching into the University of Southern California. Thankfully the great people at KUCR are letting me continue to do my show for them. They are a great little station. :)
I am very pro-immigrants rights, women's rights, queer rights, anti-racist, etc. I like all kinds of music but for my shows I focus on women's and queer music. I have two formats: Undercurrent is my everyday format, and Girl-Song Primer is the name of my "specials."
Girl-Song Primer
attempts to educate and inform listeners about the history of current and past women's, queer, genderqueer, and feminist music.
Undercurrent
is a sampling of current and past independent rock, indie, and whatever else, with an emphasis on fun. Mostly cute girlie twee stuff.
The show airs on:
KUCR Radio, 88.3 FM, Fridays 11am to 1pm Pacific Time Stream Live from KUCR.org
Info about contacting me:
If you are interested in co-curating a show, especially for Girl-Song Primer, please feel free to send me a message. I am always looking for new avenues and information. Also, bands can feel free to contact me if they wish to snail-mail or email me some music.
Musical styles in Undercurrent generally include:
twee, shoegazer, indie, riot-grrrl, folk, and cute new releases
Musical styles to be explored in Girl-Song Primer include:
rock, indie, blues, hip hop, experimental, electronic, and anything else that strikes my interest and sustains women's and feminist interests. I am aiming to create a show that is racially, ethnically, and stylistically diverse, but united by critiques of gender.
FAQs:
Why "girl"? Why not "guy"?
Girl is just shorthand. First, it is not exclusively girls (see below). Second, over the years women have been pushed to the side and oppressed over the years in music scenes, just as in other aspects of daily life. There is a lot of "cock" in rock and other genres. Women have been more able to produce and direct their own music, and reach popularity, but these developments are only sustained because of profound social changes over the past century in terms of viewing gender. Also, these changes have only occured because women and others have spoken out and fought back.
This radio show is an attempt to re-write women and gender into music history, and support current artists that come from these backgrounds and are interested in these issues. For more info about some of these topics (gender, patriarchy, heteronormativity), visit these links:
Can boys be feminists too? Why are there some boys on the show?
To clear up a misconception, the label feminist can be applied to boys, transpeople, or anyone else for that matter. Since I want to include music from artists that are sensitive to gender issues, I will from time to time include boys, men and people of other stripes that seem to pay attention to these issues.
Why the gay and lesbian stuff
Gay, Lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues are ultimately issues of gender rules and codes. Although "queer" and "girl" are CERTAINLY not synonymous, both people's sex and people's sexual behaviours are contrained by gender norms.
Who I'd like to meet: All the artists I play on the radio show!
Assata Shakur, Kate Borenstein, Judith Butler, Bell Hooks, Kathleen Hanna, Nina Simone, Emma Goldman
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