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About this FeatureFrom May, 2003 - Adventures in bad-ass commercial rock radio studios too early in the morning. Jen Trynin shares a day in the life of a would be up coming pop star. Download the MP3 Stream the MP3 Visit this Feature Page Discuss this Feature in TALK
About this Feature This piece addresses the recent phenomenon of "cutting" from the inside perspective of a teenager, Amanda Wells, who believes that no one is really getting at the heart of the problem or explaining what it feels like to cut your own body. In this sound collage, she focuses on the fundamental urge to self-mutilate and what it would take for someone to stop, while hinting at some secrets from her own life.
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SUMMARY: The ancestors of the people now living off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina were slaves. In the 1930s a play about the Gullah people by Dubose Heywood became America's great opera Porgy and Bess, in the hands of George Gershwin. Scholars claim that the Gullah people are the most homogenous group of African-Americans today, and studying the Gullah is providing a new slant on African-American history.