{"product_id":"9781595580030","title":"And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout 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. \u003ci\u003eAnd They All Sang\u003c\/i\u003e is nothing less than “a tribute to music’s universality and power” (\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e), 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the esteemed music critic Anthony DeCurtis wrote in the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, “the terms ‘interview’ or ‘oral history’ don’t begin to do justice to what Terkel achieves in these conversations, which are at once wildly ambitious and as casual as can be.” Whether discussing Enrico Caruso’s nervousness on stage with opera diva Edith Mason or the Beatles’ 1966 encounter in London with revered Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, “Terkel’s singular gift for bringing his subjects to life in their own words should strike a chord with any music fan old enough to have replaced a worn-out record needle” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031189307632,"sku":"9781595580030","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781595580030_p0.jpg?v=1763809138","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781595580030","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}