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Niteshift: Apr 10, 2023

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April 12, 2023

THE NITESHIFT Ryuichi Sakamoto TRIBUTE

Tonight a rebroadcast of our NITESHIFT Ryuichi Sakamoto special. 2 hours of an in depth discussion about the man and his music lots and lots of his music! With special Guest Kieth Brown

Ryuichi Sakamoto was a Japanese composer, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra. With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres.

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Niteshift: March 27, 2023

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April 2, 2023

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Niteshift: March 20, 2023

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March 21, 2023

Homophones, Homographs, and Homophobia

On words that are the same, but different
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How words can alter the the narratives of our lives

With Special guest:

DR. KELLY WRIGHT – RACIOLINGUIST & LEIGHANN LORD – AUTHOR/COMEDIAN

Topics
• The giant seaweed blob
• Definitions of Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms
• Language and modified history
• Is modified history the future?
• Social narratives
• women in todays social Narratives
• Words getting co-opted examples: Woke/Trans
• Buzz Words for a Fear of something we cannot define
• New meanings for old words
• Historical narratives and colloquialisms what do you colloquialisms tell us about the times they stem from?
• What brings a colloquialism to cultural relevance?
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• What constitute it’s sticking and becoming part of the lexicon of a culture

Is what we have been taught in the US have in recent years a fiction that was crafted alongside many other imperial narratives?