Gilbert Seldes

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

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Cultural critic Gilbert Seldes talks about the increasing number of television programs on Jazz music; Marian Anderson's tour of the Orient - TV program; Louis Armstrong playing on TV; unofficial goodwill/cultural ambassadors for the US State Department - Anderson and other black artists; Arthur Schlesinger took a jab at research institutions and their bias toward Sociology - the bureacritization of scholarship;


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