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A half-century of previously unpublished
interviews with legendary musicians, in a brand-new book from
America’s foremost oral historian
“I’m one of these people
that thinks that everybody has certain gifts, you know,
when they’re born... I used to play the guitar when
I was ten, you know. So I figured maybe my thing is playing
the guitar, maybe that’s my little gift.”
—Bob Dylan, interviewed in 1963, from And They
All Sang
Throughout the second half of the twentieth
century, Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel
hosted a legendary daily radio program on WFMT in Chicago,
presenting listeners with his inimitable take on a wide range
of music from classical opera to jazz, blues, gospel, folk,
and rock. His latest work of oral history shows us this completely
different side of Studs Terkel—that of a brilliant and
far-ranging musicologist.
And They All Sang features over
forty conversations with some of the greatest musical luminaries
of the past century: rock icons Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin,
influential folk singer Pete Seeger, jazz geniuses Louis Armstrong
and Dizzy Gillespie, composers Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein,
classical musicians Andres Segovia and Ravi Shankar, legendary
opera divas Rosa Raisa and Edith Mason, and gospel giants
Thomas A. Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson.
Transcending genres and generations, Studs
Terkel goes behind the music and doesn’t miss a beat.
Musicians featured include: Marian Anderson,
Louis Armstrong, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Bob Dylan,
Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Guthrie, Mahalia Jackson, Janis Joplin,
Keith Jarrett, Alan Lomax, Catherine Malfitano, Jean Ritchie,
Pete Seeger, Ravi Shankar, Richard Tucker.
Studs Terkel is the
author of a dozen books of oral history, including Hope
Dies Last, Working, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning
The Good War. In 2003 he was awarded the National Book
Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.
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