{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Arts Criticism with Gene Seymour (CNN.com, USA Today, Newsday) - 009","description":"Gene Seymour is an arts critic and culture reporter who writes frequently for CNN and USA Today. In New York, he was a longtime film and jazz critic at Newsday. His writings have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Entertainment Weekly, the Washington Post, and many other publications. Gene is a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Jazz and is the author of Jazz: The Great American Art, a history for young adults. Gene is a two-time winner of the New York Association of Black Journalists Award for distinguished criticism.\r\nNotes from the show:\r\nGene started out as a reporter, and approaches criticism from a reporter's perspective.\r\nGot his big break when Nels Elson passed along opportunity to cover the Philadelphia Jazz Festival.\r\nGene's years as a television critic were among his happiest as a journalist because he got to cover tv, politics, and culture.\r\nGene's came to Newsday as a New York City jazz critic, but later provided movie criticism.\r\nGene was raised in a Hartford CT household which always had jazz records playing: Miles Davis, Ahmed Jamal, Dave Brubek, Chet Baker, Charlie Parker.\r\nHis Dad's motto: "If it doesn't have soul, it isn't worth it."\r\nHis Dad loved Paul Desmond's "Time After Time" and Sonny Stitts's "Who Can I Turn To?"- these songs became emotional touchstones.\r\nMusic critics range from composer Virgil Thompson to George Bernard Shaw.\r\nIt is not Gene's role to explain on behalf of a musician, but to write on behalf of the spectator.\r\nThe art of note-taking during a live performance vs. a movie.\r\nLena Horne vs. the cell phone.\r\nJazz: The Great American Art\r\nFirst Book of Jazz - Langston Hughes\r\n"Jazz is the 20th century."\r\n"Have We Reached the End of Jazz Itself?" - The Nation\r\nFlying Lotus, Kendrick LaMarr, and the future of jazz.\r\nGroundhog Day, The Big Lebowski, and giving movies a second look.\r\nCritics' controversy over Wes Anderson.\r\nJohn Leonard's disdain for All in the Family.\r\nThe passing of Harper Lee.\r\nBetter Living Through Criticism - A.O. Scott\r\nRecommended Blogs:\r\n\r\nJames Wolcott - Vanity Fair\r\nChristgau's Consumer Guide to Rock Music\r\nSergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule\r\nSelf-Styled Siren\r\nSunset Gun\r\nRogerEbert.com\r\n\r\nThe Psychology of What Makes a Great Story - Brain Pickings\r\nThis podcast hosted by New York attorney Michael Prywes was sponsored by Prywes Schwartz, PLLC, a law firm devoted to artists and entrepreneurs.\r\nThis podcast may contain attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee future outcomes.","author_name":"How I Broke Into: Michael Prywes Interviews Artists and Entrepreneurs About Their Big Break","author_url":"http:\/\/howibrokeinto.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"