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Studs Terkel: Conversations with America
URL: http://www.studsterkel.org/

Description:
Includes audio recordings of interviews Studs Terkel -- oral historian, playwright, radio news commentator, sportscaster, film narrator, jazz columnist, disc jockey, and music festival host -- did for his books and a multimedia interview of Terkel himself (who died in October 2008). Provides a model for those interested in the methods of oral history. Searchable. From the Chicago Historical Society.

LII Topics: History, Jazz & Big Band, Musical Genres, Nonfiction by Genre, Oral Histories, Oral History, Twentieth Century, United States History

Publisher:
Chicago Historical Society

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Oral history
People
Terkel, Studs, 1912-
United States -- History -- 20th century

LII Database Information:
Record 13672 created by Pat Fell on 10/11/2002
Last modification on 11/06/2008
Published: 10/11/2002   Republished: 11/06/2008 , 11/06/2008
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/13672

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