New York Icons: ‘The Bell Jar’ & ‘Siembra’

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Studio 360’s American Icon series has explored dozens of influential works of art and entertainment that have shaped who we are as Americans. Now we turn to our hometown of New York for a new batch of Icons stories about works of art that were born in the city and impacted the lives of people everywhere. This hour: the 1963 book “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath, and the 1978 salsa album “Siembra” by Ruben Blades and Willie Colón.

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0:00.0	From PRX.
0:05.7	Today on Studio 360, introducing New York icons.
0:11.0	Stories about art and entertainment spawned in New York.
0:15.5	Like that 1950s summer, the young Sylvia Plath spent in the city.
0:20.1	Plath found herself suddenly embedded in the fashion and beauty industry,
0:25.0	and she's become part of this vast propaganda machine that turns women into objects.
0:31.1	The making of the bell jar and the unmaking of its author.
0:35.8	Plus, how Ruben Blades and Willie Cologne took salsa
0:41.1	from the streets of New York to the world.
0:43.7	The album became a smash,
0:46.3	I mean a beetle-sized type of success abroad.
0:50.8	The groundbreaking hit album, Siambra.
0:54.4	This was like Shakespearean poetry on wax.
0:57.6	A New York novel and a New York album, both ahead on Studio 360 right after this.
1:06.5	This is Studio 360.
1:10.4	I'm Kurt Anandis. And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:13.4	This first level of garden. This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable dog. I'd like to have the roasted chicken piece.
1:18.4	Very well done.
1:19.5	Editing is all about timing. I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
1:23.8	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
1:26.2	Studio 360. With's Kurt Anderson.
1:30.6	Studio 360's American icon series has deeply examined dozens of important and influential works
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