A half-century of previously unpublished interviews with legendary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.
