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Feeling Tone
July 17 – December 6, 2020
MCA Chicago
Chicago Works series

Project Description
A recreation of Louis Studs Terkel’s WFMT radio booth with an accompanying audio program of the oral historian’s interviews.

Mounted on the exterior booth walls are four speakers. Every day throughout the run of the exhibition, a new conversation is featured—143 in all. Original broadcast dates ranging from 1953 to 1996 and are curated from thousands of hours of conversations Studs held with guests on The Studs Terkel Program. The cumulative voices model a socio-political topography of the times, still radical and relevant today. A feeling tone is an intelligence beyond words.

Let’s face it. What counts is knowledge. And feeling. You see, there is such a thing as feeling tone. One is friendly and one is hostile. And if you don't have this, baby, you’ve had it. You’re dead.

- Nancy Dickerson in “Division Street: America”

Deborah Stratman

Feeling Tone is possible thanks to the Studs Terkel Radio Archives – a joint project of The Chicago History Museum and WFMT

Conversations play daily through the MCA’s website and are accessible via the linked list below.

ON STUDS IN CONVERSATION WITH ORIGINAL BROADCAST
F Jul 17 Big Bill Broonzy July 22 1953
S Jul 18 Jacques Tati Dec 12 1958
Sn Jul 19 Arthur C. Clarke Jan 27 1959
M Jul 20 Nelson Algren Feb 2 1959
W Jul 22 Dorothy Parker Feb 6 1959
T Jul 21 Lorraine Hansberry May 12 1959
Th Jul 23 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Oct 15 1959
F Jul 24 Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky 1960
S Jul 25 Mort Sahl Feb 17 1960
Sn Jul 26 Maya Angelou Apr 1 1960
M Jul 27 Buckminster Fuller Apr 23 1960
T Jul 28 Simone de Beauvoir May 4 1960
W Jul 29 James Cotton, Langston Hugues, John Sellers & Otis Spann Jul 15 1960
Th Jul 30 Gwendolyn Brooks Jan 3 1961
F Jul 31 Jackie "Moms" Mabley Jun 13 1961
S Aug 1 James Baldwin Jul 15 1961
Sn Aug 2 Lillian Eugenia Smith & Norman Thomas Nov 11 1961
M Aug 3 Tennessee Williams Dec 1 1961
T Aug 4 Dr. Carlo Levi 1962
W Aug 5 Eartha Kitt Jun 10 1962
Th Aug 6 James Baldwin Sep 29 1962
F Aug 7 Albert John Luthuli Mar 1 1963
S Aug 8 John Henry Faulk Dec 1 1964
Sn Aug 9 Dick Gregory Dec 17 1964
M Aug 10 Nelson Algren 1965
T Aug 11 Mort Sahl 1965
W Aug 12 Buckminster Fuller Jan 20 1965
Th Aug 13 Son House Apr 19 1965
F Aug 14 Stokely Carmichael, Charlie Cobb & Courtland Cox Jul 23 1965
S Aug 15 Madalyn Murray O'Hair Dec 13 1966
Sn Aug 16 Cesar Chavez 1967
M Aug 17 January 1967 Chicago Blizzard field recordings May 15 1967
T Aug 18 Picasso sculpture unveiling Aug 15 1967
W Aug 19 Edwin C. “Bill” Berry 1968
Th Aug 20 Anne Guerrero 1968
F Aug 21 Jimmy Ray, John Ray & Henry, Part 2 1968
S Aug 22 Ralph Nader Jun 23 1968
Sn Aug 23 Phyl Garland Nov 25 1968
M Aug 24 Bessie Bell, Mrs. Collins, Jean Chumra, Catherine Dandridge
& Dovie Thurman
1969
T Aug 25 Allan Evans & Henry Jordan 1969
W Aug 26 Howard Alan, Steve Schaumburg & Lincoln Park residents 1970
Th Aug 27 Lanza del Vasto 1970
F Aug 28 Willie Dixon, Sunnyland Slim & Big Mama Thornton 1970
S Aug 29 Ralph Ellison 1970
Sn Aug 30 Jill Godmilow 1970
M Aug 31 William Johnson 1970
T Sep 1 Arthur Miller & John O’Brien 1970
W Sep 2 Elsa Knight Thompson 1970
Th Sep 3 Noam Chomsky Jan 19 1970
F Sep 4 Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry Jan 28 1970
S Sep 5 Maya Angelou Mar 13 1970
Sn Sep 6 Dick Gregory May 14 1970
M Sep 7 Mel Brooks Dec 10 1970
T Sep 8 Saul Alinsky 1971
W Sep 9 Mike Royko Mar 15 1971
Th Sep 10 Thích Nhát Hạnh Apr 21 1971
F Sep 11 Charles Mingus May 20 1971
S Sep 12 Mike Royko & Dick Simpson Jul 22 1971
Sn Sep 13 Caroline Bird Aug 26 1971
M Sep 14 John Lee Hooker Oct 21 1971
T Sep 15 Roger Buffalohead Nov 15 1971
W Sep 16 Joe Begley & John Prine 1972
Th Sep 17 Anaïs Nin 1972
F Sep 18 Father Daniel Berrigan Jun 1 1972
S Sep 19 Hunter S. Thompson Mar 14 1973
Sn Sep 20 David Wise May 25 1973
M Sep 21 Dick Gregory May 30 1973
T Sep 22 Cesar Chavez Jun 4 1973
W Sep 23 Rosa Parks & Myles Horton Jun 8 1973
Th Sep 24 Jill Johnston Jun 29 1973
F Sep 25 Günter Grass Oct 1 1973
S Sep 26 Ollie, Big Bob, Medium Bob & Marilyn Oct 16 1973
Sn Sep 27 Frederick Wiseman Nov 9 1973
M Sep 28 Maya Angelou May 13 1974
T Sep 29 Ed Sadlowski & Theodore Smolarek Jul 1 1974
W Sep 30 Patricia O’Brien Jul 6 1973
Th Oct 1 Carolyn See Aug 16 1974
F Oct 2 Leon Golub Sep 6 1974
S Oct 3 Andrea Medea & Kathleen Thompson Oct 9 1974
Sn Oct 4 Milton Mayer Dec 27 1974
M Oct 5 Vine Deloria Jr. Jan 20 1975
T Oct 6 William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg Mar 11 1975
W Oct 7 Dolores Huerta Apr 16 1975
Th Oct 8 Ada "Bricktop" Smith May 6 1975
F Oct 9 Nora Ephron Jul 28 1975
S Oct 10 Dennis Brutus Oct 16 1975
Sn Oct 11 Jane Kennedy Nov 6 1975
M Oct 12 Muhammad Ali Nov 26 1975
T Oct 13 Martin Scorsese & Paul Schrader Feb 12 1976
W Oct 14 Frederick Wiseman Feb 20 1976
Th Oct 15 James Baldwin Apr 29 1976
F Oct 16 Oriana Fallaci Mar 8 1977
S Oct 17 Joan Didion Apr 7 1977
Sn Oct 18 Anne Foreman & Mary Jo Risher Jul 25 1977
M Oct 19 Ron Kovic Jul 29 1977
T Oct 20 Blind John Davis Sep 20 1977
W Oct 21 Toni Morrison Oct 7 1977
Th Oct 22 Florence Reece & Pete Seeger Mar 17 1978
F Oct 23 Susan Sontag Jun 30 1978
S Oct 24 Dan Berman & Bob Fowler Mar 29 1979
Sn Oct 25 Carlos Fuentes Jun 1 1979
M Oct 26 Maya Angelou & Tom Wicker Jul 1 1979
T Oct 27 Vine Deloria Jr. Oct 12 1979
W Oct 28 Germaine Greer Nov 1 1979
Th Oct 29 Myra Alexander 1980
F Oct 30 John Cage & Peter Gena 1980
S Oct 31 Erica Jong Sep 8 1980
Sn Nov 1 Oriana Fallaci Nov 21 1980
M Nov 2 Toni Morrison Apr 16 1981
T Nov 3 Thor Heyerdahl Oct 9 1981
W Nov 4 Betty Friedan & Ellen Goodman Oct 15 1981
Th Nov 5 Tom Wolfe Nov 16 1981
F Nov 6 Hajimi Kito, Masami Nakajima & Hideko Timura May 31 1982
S Nov 7 Gloria Steinem Jun 17 1982
Sn Nov 8 Mort Sahl Aug 11 1983
M Nov 9 Vine Deloria Jr. Nov 17 1983
T Nov 10 Gore Vidal Jun 22 1984
W Nov 11 Edward Said Oct 1 1984
Th Nov 12 James Baldwin Nov 22 1985
F Nov 13 Oliver W. Sacks, Part 2 Dec 4 1985
S Nov 14 Claude Lanzmann Jan 9 1986
Sn Nov 15 Margaret Atwood Mar 13 1986
M Nov 16 Gerda Lerner Jun 26 1986
T Nov 17 Dave Dellinger, Abbie Hoffman & Bobby Seale Mar 26 1988
W Nov 18 Michael Dorris & Louise Erdrich Sep 16 1988
Th Nov 19 Margaret Atwood Feb 28 1989
F Nov 20 Anthony Braxton Aug 24 1989
S Nov 21 Barbara Ehrenreich Sep 18 1989
Sn Nov 22 Diane Akerman Jul 17 1990
M Nov 23 Kurt Vonnegut Jun 14 1991
T Nov 24 Sandra Cisneros Jun 30 1991
W Nov 25 Ursula K. Le Guin Nov 22 1991
Th Nov 26 Joe Gutierrez & Ed Sadlowski Feb 11 1992
F Nov 27 Barbara Kopple Mar 20 1992
S Nov 28 Adrienne Cecile Rich Sep 23 1992
Sn Nov 29 Ann Druyan & Carl Sagan Oct 5 1992
M Nov 30 William Least Heat Moon Nov 5 1992
T Dec 1 Bill Ayers Jun 23 1993
W Dec 2 Sister Helen Prejean Apr 13 1994
Th Dec 3 Roger G. Kennedy Sep 22 1994
F Dec 4 Oliver W. Sacks Mar 15 1995
S Dec 5 Jamaica Kincaid Jan 31 1996
Sn Dec 6 Edwidge Danticat May 8 1996






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