THIS IS OUR STORY: BIRDS IN FOLKLORE (12/8/1959)

June 17, 2016, 11:59 pm

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Throughout 1959, Studs Terkel presented a series on WFMT he called “This is Our Story.” In tonight’s rebroadcast, Studs invites us to “consider the birds, the high-flyers and the domestic foul and their part in American folklore and music.” And so we shall. Through performances by John Jacob Niles, Win Stracke, Leadbelly and others, Studs uses his singular interweaving of prose and tunes to tell the tales of birds.