Crossing East: Raising Cane - Program Three
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
From: Dmae Roberts
Length: 00:59:00
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Winner of the George Foster Peabody Award in 2007 Hosted by George Takei. (pronounced Tah-Kay) This program profiles the lives of the sugar plantation workers in Hawaii through stories of segregated camps, the practice of picture brides, the rise of the big sugar plantations, multicultural plantation life, and the emergence of Pidgin English, a new local language. This program includes a newscast window and minute-long music breaks at :19 and :39 after the hour.
THE ACTUAL SHOW LENGTH IS 59 MINUTES. THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSIONS OF THIS SHOW DEPENDING ON HOW YOU WANT TO RUN IT.
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Winner of the George Foster Peabody Award in 2007 Hosted by George Takei. (pronounced Tah-Kay) This program profiles the lives of the sugar plantation workers in Hawaii through stories of segregated camps, the practice of picture brides, the rise of the big sugar plantations, multicultural plantation life, and the emergence of Pidgin English, a new local language. This program includes a newscast window and minute-long music breaks at :19 and :39 after the hour.
THE ACTUAL SHOW LENGTH IS 59 MINUTES. THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSIONS OF THIS SHOW DEPENDING ON HOW YOU WANT TO RUN IT.
Broadcast History
Distributed by PRI in 2006.
Transcript
PROGRAM THREE
Raising Cane
BILLBOARD
ANNOUNCER: Major Funding for this series is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with support from PRI ? Public Radio International.
HOST: This is Crossing East? Our stories, our history, our America.
SOUND COLLAGE
RONALD TAKAKI: In Hawaii you had a diversity of workers from all over the world.
BILL PUETTE: There?s plenty of examples of workers who were beaten.
ALMA OGATA: And all we got paid was $2. That was slavery.
GEORGE FUJIWARA: My dad came to Hawaii And then when he was about 28 years old he got a picture bride
RICHARD NAGAME: Before the union you can?t do anything. No safety things. Not until after the union came into the picture.
DOMINGO LOS BANOS: The way we agitated was go slow time, don?t go double time, work slowly. Secondly arson, burn the cane fields.
AH QUON MCELRATH: It didn?t make a difference whether y...
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Timing and Cues
00:00 - Billboard
01:00 - News hole
06:00 - Music Bed
06:30 - Segment A
19:00 - Music Bed
20:00 - Segment B
39:00 - Music Bed
40:00 - Segment C
59:00 - Silence
Additional Files
- Program 3 Transcript (3raisingcanefinal.doc)
- Program 3 - 30 Second Promo (prog3promo30sec.mp2)
- Program 3 - 15 Second Promo (prog3promo15sec.mp2)
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Review of Crossing East: Raising Cane - Program Three
CROSSING EAST - Raising Cane
You hear about Driveway Moments, but do you ever hear about Naive Moments? That's when, while listening to a radio program, you face up to the fact that you don't know a whole lot about something all around you. For example, I know nothing very substantial about Hawaii as a place where people have forged a history. This program features so much dedicated scholarship, stories and colorful detail that it has required a multitude of voices, actors mixing gently in with interview material and other sound. And yes, this is one of those projects with lots of people to acknowledge at the end - but the beautiful variety of the names in the credits somehow themselves make up a kind of poem testifying to this important effort.
These moments - of a history hardly mentioned in school or few Hollywood movies - these are the moments that public broadcasting owes its audience, I feel.
PS I also know very little about the history and contributions of Asian Americans in general. How about you? Why is that? Maybe I ought to listen to some other programs in the series.