A half-century of previously unpublished interviews with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.
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