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Music

  • Terkel comments and presents musical performance by Sweet Honey in the Rock

    Aug. 21, 1986
  • Discussing the book "Louis Armstrong, An American Genius" with biographer and author James Lincoln Collier

    Oct. 28, 1983
  • Discussing the book "Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s" with author and jazz historian Ira Gitler

    Feb. 1, 1986
  • Presenting jazz with Bill Leonard and Frank Holzfeind

    1975
  • Interviewing four members of the Orpheus Male Choir Rhos from Wales

    Apr. 13, 1987
  • Interviewing Jim Blake ; part 3

    Jul. 2, 1962
  • Interviewing Tom Paxton at Northwestern University

    Feb. 2, 1970
  • Tribute to Johnny Mercer

    Aug. 18, 1976
  • Studs Terkel discusses the WPA Arts Project

    Sep. 14, 1989
  • Donald Luce discusses the problems in Vietnam

  • Interviewing pianist Ursula Oppens

    Nov. 29, 1990
  • Mike Seeger discusses his career

    Nov. 7, 1960
  • Interview with Larry and Bob Jakus about their album "Prairie House"

    Dec. 22, 1988
  • Performance of traditional folk hymns sung by Helen Schneyer

    Nov. 9, 1990
  • Jean Shepherd discusses his views on cynicism

    Nov. 12, 1970
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