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Environment, Ecology Music - Folk Music
  • John Prine

    John Prine discusses songwriting and growing up in Southern Illinois

    1972

    They briefly discuss coal mining in Appalachia, specifically Blackey Kentucky. Includes an interview with Joe Begley a coal miner from Blackey, Kentucky.

  • Interview with Patrick Sky

    1967

    Terkel interviews folk singer Patrick Sky on his latest project. A 19 minute film entitled "Down the Road" Sky directs and stars in the film about pollution. He describes how he acquired the help of local children to shoot the film and how he got permission from the city to shoot on location.

  • Interview with Holly Arntzen

    Mar. 25, 1992

    Interviewing Holly Arntzen, a folk singer and songwriter of political and social protest songs.

  • Chicago blizzard

    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.

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