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COVER STORY
Jazz Influence
Kurt talks with Robert O'Meally, Director of the Center
for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, about how jazz has shaped American
culture.
  Jackson
Pollock
For
abstract painter Jackson Pollock, jazz was a refuge. Produced by Judith
Kampfner.
 Go
to National Gallery of Art: Jackson Pollock online exhibit
Rhythms
In Glass And Steel
A look at how jazz has influenced the design of a
new concert hall. Produced by Alicia Zuckerman.
Go
to The Architecture of Ralph Vinoly: The Birth of the Nasher Museum of
Art: Duke University
Go
to Jazz at Lincoln Center
 Raymond
Scott
From Looney Tunes to Ren and Stimpy to the Simpsons,
animators continue to use Raymond Scott's idiosyncratic music to score
cartoons. Kurt speaks with WNYC's David Garland about the bandleader and
composer.
Go
to Official Raymond Scott website
SPECIAL GUEST
 Robert
O'Meally
Robert O'Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor
of American Literature at Columbia University, where he is also the Director
of the Center for Jazz Studies, dedicated to exploring the influence of
jazz on American life. He is the editor of The Jazz Cadence of American
Culture, the author of Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday and
his latest book, Living With Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings, has
just been published by Modern Library.
More Jazz Links
Go
to William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
Go
to oral history archives, Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University
Go
to Ken Nordine website
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Design
For the Real World
Lifelong baseball fan and graphic designer Steven
Heller looks at the most American piece of headwear -- the baseball
cap.
Now
Playing
Art-O-Mat: Cigarette machines are making a comeback
-- only the machine now dispenses not tobacco, but art. Produced by
Andrea Murray, WETA.
Go
to Artists In Cellophane website
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