And they all sang : adventures of an eclectic disc jockey / Studs Terkel.
A selection of forty previously unpublished interviews with musicians from the past half-century includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian's discussions with such figures as Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and Louis Armstrong.
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New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude: An American original: John Jacob Niles
- Vox humana: Tito Gobbi: Good and evil, Geraint Evans: The outsider
- Leibestod: Jon Vickers, Birgit Nilsson
- Salzburg: Josef Krips, Irmgard Seefried; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
- Diva: Rosa Raisa, Edith Mason
- American-born: Marian Anderson, Richard Tucker, Catherine Malfitano
- The Instrument: Andrés Segovia, Ravi Shankar, Alfred Brendel, Garrick Ohlsson, Nicolas Slonimsky
- Composers: Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein
- Impresario (1): Sol Hurok
- Jazz: Lil Armstrong, Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Dizzy Gillespie, Betty Carter, Henry Threadgill, Keith Jarrett
- Impresario (2): John Hammond Sr.
- Spirituals, blues, folk, rock: Thomas A Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson, Big Bill Broonzy, Emanual Dunn, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jean Ritchie, Janis Joplin
- Impresario (3): Alan Lomax
- Variations on the theme: Larry Adler, Richard Dyer-Bennett, Julian Lee Rayford
- Postlude: A graceful goodbye: Lotte Lehmann
- Biographical notes.