{"id":689,"date":"2006-10-02T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=689"},"modified":"2006-10-02T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T08:05:00","slug":"youtube_examined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/10\/youtube_examined\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Examined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many <em>Rifftides<\/em> readers check in regularly with Terry Teachout&#8217;s indispensable artsjournal.com blog <em>About Last Night<\/em>.  You may also read him in <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, where Terry&#8217;s <strong>Sightings<\/strong> column over the weekend concerned the economic, ethical, commercial and cultural facets of a phenomenon often discussed and linked here. It is <em>YouTube<\/em>, the web site devoted to video clips. A large percentage of what appears on <em>YouTube<\/em> and similar sites is ego-driven ephemera, but much of it is cultural treasure. To read Teachout&#8217;s thoughts on the long-term value of <em>YouTube<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB115956166095678348-wEQI6gz2EusnakaMUm_9nfBAGCI_20061007.html?mod=blogs\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.  The <em>Journal <\/em>has granted a free link to the piece.<br \/>\nWhen you come back, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PcIEy6YdhTQ\"target=\"_blank\">click this link<\/a> for a <em>YouTube<\/em> clip of the great saxophonists Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins at a latterday Jazz At The Philharmonic concert. The introducer is JATP&#8217;s impresario, Norman Granz. The intergenerational rhythm section is pianist Teddy Wilson, bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Louie Bellson. The tune is &#8220;Blue Lou,&#8221; not, as <em>YouTube<\/em> bills it, &#8220;Blue Lue.&#8221; Spelling is not often the strong suit of the people who mount these videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Rifftides readers check in regularly with Terry Teachout&#8217;s indispensable artsjournal.com blog About Last Night. You may also read him in The Wall Street Journal, where Terry&#8217;s Sightings column over the weekend concerned the economic, ethical, commercial and cultural facets of a phenomenon often discussed and linked here. It is YouTube, the web site devoted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}