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Music - Folk Music Urban Life

Presenting the Old Town school of folk music
Oct. 8, 1963
Terkel comments and presents the Old Town school of folk music
Interviewing with and presenting a retrospective of the work of folksinger, guitarist, and labor activist Win Stracke
May. 19, 1983
Interviewing Peggy Terry and Roger Phillips
Jul. 13, 1976
Content Warning: This conversation includes racially and/or culturally derogatory language and/or negative depictions of Black and Indigenous people of color, women, and LGBTQI+ individuals. Rather than remove this content, we present it in the context of twentieth-century social history to acknowledge and learn from its impact and to inspire awareness and discussion. Terry is an organizer of poor Southern whites in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood
Interviewing oral historian, folk musician and musicologist Jesus "Chuy" Negrete
Oct. 24, 1997
Discussing the book "Biography of a Hunch: The History of Chicago's Legendary Old Town School of Folk Music," with author Lisa Grayson and the Executive Director of the Old Town School of Folk Music, Jim Hirsch
Feb. 11, 1993
Chicago Blizzard field recordings: January 1967 snow-in ; part 2
May. 13, 1967
Terkel discussing the snow-in in Chicago in January 1967. Interviewee talks about how the human interaction differs during a blizzard then on a clear day.
Celebration in honor of music director Jim Unrath's 25th Anniversary at WFMT radio
Nov. 14, 1984
Celebration in honor of Jim Unrath's 25th Anniversary