{"286181":{"#nid":"286181","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Salsa! Students Produce Latin American Radio Show","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you tune in to Georgia Tech\u2019s student-run radio station, WREK, between the hours of 7 and 9 p.m. on any Sunday night, you may be privy to the sounds of anything from punk to avant-garde. On one Sunday night in particular, though, the radio waves were dominated by the sound of salsa music, thanks to a group of students taking a class in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Modern Languages\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter spending a semester exploring Latin American societies and cultures through their musical traditions, undergraduate students Amisha Kadiwar, Priya Verma, and Sina Medhikarimi, produced a two-hour live radio show entirely in Spanish and broadcast it in collaboration with the WREK team.\u0026nbsp; As a final project for the class, Span 4813: The Latin American Music Radio Show, the students were invited to explore their preferred music style, and Caribbean music\u2014specifically salsa\u2014spoke to this trio of soon-to-be radio producers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team then began the process of brainstorming ideas for their radio show, topics to cover, and songs that might be included. Their chosen themes were community, the role of women, and recent developments in salsa. Thus, the musical journey titled \u201cSalsa as Representative of Caribbean Diasporic Music\u201d was born.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe radio show included a variety of music within the salsa style, featuring both classically oriented artists and newcomers, as well as an interview with salsa instructor Julian Mejia, a native of Columbia and founder of SALSAtlanta. The full playlist of the salsa special can be found on the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.wrek.org\/sundayspecial\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWREK website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEmerging from the process of producing a radio show focused on linguistically and socially meaningful content was the awareness among students of the important role of the human voice in speaking a second language. Students were encouraged to think of the human voice as both a physical and social creation. \u0026nbsp;Learning a new language involves not only discovering news ways of using and articulating the mouth and facial muscles, but also the social dynamic of creating a voice and offering a perspective of the world based on a listening practice of exploring the musical dynamics of another culture.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPart of our mission as professors of modern languages is to guide students in this process of self-discovery constituted by the desire to have a meaningful voice and intercultural mindset in a second language,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/rodriguez\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJuan Carlos Rodriguez\u003C\/a\u003E, who is teaching the class. \u201cThe radio show project allows students to discover and develop their own voices in Spanish. Students discover that their voices in Spanish are the result of a dialogue between personal and collective experiences involving many cultural and social issues.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you tune in to Georgia Tech\u2019s student-run radio station, WREK, between the hours of 7 and 9 p.m. on any Sunday night, you may be privy to the sounds of anything from punk to avant-garde. On one Sunday night in particular, though, the radio waves were dominated by the sound of salsa music, thanks to a group of students taking a class in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Modern Languages\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"WREK radio waves dominated by the sound of salsa music, thanks to a group of students taking a class in the School of Modern Languages."}],"uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2014-03-26 16:23:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:07","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"286171":{"id":"286171","type":"image","title":"Salsa students","body":null,"created":"1449244237","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:50:37","changed":"1475894981","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:41","alt":"Salsa students","file":{"fid":"199085","name":"salsa.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/salsa_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/salsa_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":48170,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/salsa_0.jpg?itok=beQjWelA"}}},"media_ids":["286171"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"167695","name":"salsa"},{"id":"44251","name":"wrek radio"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}