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  • Terkel comments and presents musical performance of Earl "Fatha" Hines

    Sep. 21, 1977
  • Alan Lomax

    Studs Terkel plays selections from Alan Lomax's collection

    Dec. 14, 1960
  • Presenting a jazz program with author and jazz historian Dempsey Travis

    Feb. 1, 1989
  • Paul Angle and Win Stracke

    Paul Angle, historian and writer, and Win Stracke, folk musician, discuss "Crossroads: 1913," part 3

    Jul. 1, 1963

    Paul Angle discusses his book "Crossroads: 1913," and Win Stracke provides a musical review. The three gentlemen talk in depth about the book with live and recorded music interspersed. Music: "Water--Oh!, Water For Me" and "The Rosary." "The Voice of Vienna" (a waltz).

  • Paul Angle and Win Stracke

    Paul Angle, historian and writer, and Win Stracke, folk musician, discuss "Crossroads: 1913," part 2

    Jul. 1, 1963

    Paul Angle discusses his book "Crossroads: 1913," and Win Stracke provides a musical review. The three gentlemen talk in depth about the book with live and recorded music interspersed. Songs include: "Casey Jones - The Union Scab," "Sweet Adeline," "We Shall Overcome," "Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be," and "Immortality" by William Jennings Bryan (1908).

  • Paul Angle and Win Stracke

    Paul Angle, historian and writer and Win Stracke folk musician discuss "Crossroads: 1913," ; part 1

    Jul. 1, 1963

    Paul Angle, director of the Chicago Historical Society, discusses his new book "Crossroads: 1913." Win Stracke, musician, provides a musical review of Angle's book.

  • Martin Duberman discusses his book "Paul Robeson"

    Feb. 28, 1989

    Martin Duberman, historian and biographer, discusses his latest work which focuses on the singer, actor, and political activist Paul Robeson. Robeson was known for his performance in Showboat and Emperor Jones.

  • Lawrence Cohn discusses his book Nothing But the Blues: The Music and Musicians

    Dec. 20, 1993

    The originator of the Roots ‘N’ Blues series and Grammy winner and nominee Lawrence Cohn discusses his latest work which focuses on the life and times of blues and the musicians that helped the genre become what it is today.

  • John Jacob Niles in conversation with Studs Terkel

    May. 10, 1957
  • Interviewing St. Clair Drake, author of "Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City."

    May. 10, 1976

    A discussion with sociologist and anthropologist St. Clair Drake at the time of his receiving an honorary award from Roosevelt University on the themes of his convocation address. A fascinating deep-dive into race relations from the Revolution to the Bicentennial, touching on the contradictions, crises, and struggles that led to Black institutions and liberation. Studs plays several excerpts from previous programs with St.

  • Interviewing pianist and music historian John Edward Hasse

    Mar. 22, 1989
  • Interviewing journalist, rock critic and historian Dave Marsh

    Nov. 1, 1985
  • Interviewing jazz and blues historian, novelist and critic Albert Murray

    Jul. 19, 1991
  • Interviewing historian, composer, and founder of the musical group Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bernice Johnson Reagon

    Feb. 23, 1988
  • Interviewing Gambian-born, Chicago-based Mandingo griot (musician and oral historian of the Mandingo people of West Africa) and kora player Foday Musa Suso

    Nov. 2, 1977
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