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The Pulitzer Prize winner's "latest indispensable oral history" ("New York Times") of the twentieth century's most celebrated musicians. Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Studs Terkel hosted a legendary daily radio show in Chicago, presenting listeners with his inimitable take on an eclectic range of music, from classical, opera, and jazz to gospel, blues, folk, and rock. "And They All Sang" is nothing less than "a tribute to music's universality and power" ("Philadelphia Inquirer"), featuring more than forty of Terkel's unforgettable conversations with some of the greatest musicians of the past century--including Louis Armstrong, Leonard Bernstein, Big Bill Broonzy, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Mahalia Jackson, Janis Joplin, Rosa Raisa, Pete Seeger, and many others.Terkel, Studs is the author of 'And They All Sang Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey', published 2006 under ISBN 9781595581181 and ISBN 1595581189.
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