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  • Studs Terkel

    Terkel comments and presents "Hard Times: an oral history of the great depression" ; Program 15; part 1

    1971

    Presenting "Hard Times: an oral history of the great depression": "A gathering of survivors" with Joe Morrison, Evelyn Finn, Jose Iglesias, Bob Stinson, Oscar Heline, Eml & Ruth Loriks, Buddy Blankenship, Mary Owsley, Sally Rand, Jerome Zerbe, John Beeche (promgram XIII)

  • Phyl Garland discusses her book "Sound of Soul" and the history of black music in America ; part 2

    Nov. 25, 1968

    Studs interviews Phyl Garland about her book "Sound of Soul." They discuss various musicians that she mentions in her book and their influence on black music. Garland explains the music of young black artists and how commercialization of music gave blacks an opportunity that they would not have had otherwise. Garland talks about how Fannie Lou Hamer used music to express her message in the Civil Rights Movement and as a women's rights activist. Studs and Garland discuss various black female artists and their music.

  • Margie Adam

    Margie Adam discusses her music and career

    May. 20, 1993

    IMargie Adam, musician, activist, and composer, discusses how events such as the women's movement and the lesbian-feminist movement inspired her to create music for her new album, Another Place. The album reflects on Adams's life and on topics such as her sexuality.

  • Joan Baez

    Joan Baez performs and speaks with Studs Terkel

    Jul. 11, 1967

    Joan Baez speaks with Studs Terkel about role of music and the responsibility of musicians in the specific historical moment of the late '60's.

  • Brian Wilson

    Interviewing peace activist, Brian Willson

    Apr. 21, 1988
  • Interviewing labor and women's rights activist, and educator June Rostan

    Jul. 1, 1992

    Program includes an excerpt of a 1978 interview with songwriter and labor rights activist Florence Reece.

  • Interviewing Jimmy Collier, Jim Orange and Diane Smith of the Freedom singers ; part 2

    Dec. 31, 1959
  • Interviewing Jimmy Collier, Jim Orange and Diane Smith of the Freedom singers ; part 1

    Dec. 31, 1959
  • Garry Davis discusses renouncing his American citizenship ; part 2 and Ray Davies discusses the album "Arthur"

    May. 23, 1973

    Garry Davis concludes by telling the audience he's in town to gain moral, political and financial support for the group he founded, The World Service Authority. Davis' final thought -- any man who defends his own rights is defending the rights of all men. Ray Davies of the English rock band, The Kinks, talks about the studio album, "Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)". Davis reads lyrics from the songs, "Victoria," "Yes Sir, No Sir" and "Some Mother's Son".

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