{"id":1660,"date":"2008-08-02T10:12:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T10:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2008-08-02T10:12:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T10:12:29","slug":"music-cultural-theorists-and-the-late-work-of-groucho-marx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1660","title":{"rendered":"Music, cultural theorists and the late work of Groucho Marx."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken, this one&#8217;s for you, coming courtesy of a link in Journalista! and WFMU&#8217;s Beware of the Blog.  In 1969, ABC had a musical variety TV show called <i>Music Scene.<\/i>  When the show ended, they got a very special co-host: the 79-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wfmu.org\/freeform\/2008\/07\/groucho-saves-t.html\">Groucho Marx<\/a>.  Sporting an absolutely amazing hat straight from an MIT graduation, he reminisces about his life and career in a uniquely Groucho fashion, replete with one-liners often delivered with wanton, joyful disregard for the show&#8217;s other co-host, David Steinberg.  Man, I hope I&#8217;m having that much fun when I&#8217;m 79.<br \/>\nThe other thing that I found amazing about the video clips on this page, aside from Steinberg&#8217;s tie, is the collage of text on set behind Steinberg during the opening.  Among other buzzwords of the age like &#8220;Pollution&#8221; and &#8220;Ghetto&#8221; and musical terms like &#8220;Music Scene&#8221; and &#8220;Billboard&#8221; were &#8220;Fellini&#8221; and &#150; get this &#150; &#8220;McLuhan&#8221;.  Good luck finding &#8220;Jenkins&#8221; or &#8220;Bordwell&#8221; on the backdrop of <i>American Idol<\/i> or <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i> now!<br \/>\nWait for the moment about 14 minutes in when Groucho starts riffing on Bo Diddley.  Man, they don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like this anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken, this one&#8217;s for you, coming courtesy of a link in Journalista! and WFMU&#8217;s Beware of the Blog. In 1969, ABC had a musical variety TV show called Music Scene. When the show ended, they got a very special co-host: the 79-year-old Groucho Marx. Sporting an absolutely amazing hat straight from an MIT graduation, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-music","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-qM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}