Deborah Stratman, Feeling Tone

On the occasion of Chicago Works: Deborah Stratman, the artist created a 12th chapter of The Illinois Parables in the form of the artwork Feeling Tone. This artwork consists of a re-creation of Studs Terkel’s WFMT radio booth and an accompanying audio program of the oral historian’s interviews. The chronological list can be found on this page.

MCA Date Interview Subject Archive Date
7/17 Big Bill Broonzy 7/22/53
7/18 Jacques Tati 12/12/58
7/19 Arthur C. Clarke 1/27/59
7/20 Nelson Algren 2/2/59
7/21 Dorothy Parker 2/6/59
7/22 Lorraine Hansberry 5/12/59
7/23 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 10/15/59
7/24 Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky 1960
7/25 Mort Sahl 2/17/60
7/26 Maya Angelou 4/1/60
7/27 Buckminster Fuller 4/23/60
7/28 Simone de Beauvoir 5/4/60
7/29 James Cotton, Langston Hughes, John Sellers, and Otis Spann 7/15/60
7/30 Gwendolyn Brooks 1/3/61
7/31 Jackie “Moms” Mabley, Part 2 6/13/61
8/1 James Baldwin 7/15/61
8/2 Lillian Eugenia Smith and Norman Thomas, Part 2,Part 3 11/11/61
8/3 Tennessee Williams 12/1/61
8/4 Dr. Carlo Levi, Part 2 1962
8/5 Eartha Kitt,Part 2,Part 3 7/10/62
8/6 James Baldwin 9/29/62
8/7 Albert John Luthuli 3/1/63
8/8 John Henry Faulk, Part 2 12/1/64
8/9 Dick Gregory 12/17/64
8/10 Nelson Algren 1965
8/11 Mort Sahl 1/1/65
8/12 Buckminster Fuller 1/20/65
8/13 Son House 4/19/65
8/14 Stokely Carmichael, Charlie Cobb, and Courtland Cox 7/23/65
8/15 Madalyn Murray O’Hair 12/13/66
8/16 Cesar Chavez 1967
8/17 Chicago blizzard field recordings,Part 2 5/13/67
8/18 Picasso sculpture unveiling 8/15/67
8/19 Edwin C. “Bill” Berry,Part 2 1968
8/20 Anne Guerrero, Part 2, Part 3 1968
8/21 John Ray, Jimmy Ray, and Henry,Part 2 1968
8/22 Ralph Nader 6/23/68
8/23 Phyl Garland, Part 2 11/25/68
8/24 Bessie Bell, Mrs. Collins, Jean Chumra, Catherine Dandridge, and Dovie Thurman 1969
8/25 Allan Evans and Henry Jordan 1969
8/26 Howard Alan, Steve Schaumberg, and Lincoln Park Residents 1970
8/27 Lanza del Vasto 1970
8/28 Willie Dixon, Sunnyland Slim, and Big Mama Thornton 1970
8/29 Ralph Ellison 1970
8/30 Jill Godmilow 1970
8/31 William Johnson 1970
9/1 Arthur Miller and John O’Brien 1970
9/2 Elsa Knight Thompson 1970
9/3 Noam Chomsky 1/19/70
9/4 Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry 1/28/70
9/5 Maya Angelou 3/13/70
9/6 Dick Gregory 5/14/70
9/7 Mel Brooks 12/10/70
9/8 Saul Alinsky 1971
9/9 Mike Royko 3/15/71
9/10 Thích Nhất Hạn 4/21/71
9/11 Charles Mingus 5/20/71
9/12 Mike Royko and Dick Simpson 7/22/71
9/13 Caroline Bird 8/26/71
9/14 John Lee Hooker 10/21/71
9/15 Roger Buffalohead 11/15/71
9/16 Joe Begley and John Prine 1972
9/17 Anaïs Nin 1972
9/18 Father Daniel Berrigan 6/1/72
9/19 Hunter S. Thompson 3/14/73
9/20 David Wise 5/25/73
9/21 Dick Gregory 5/30/73
9/22 Cesar Chavez 6/4/73
9/23 Rosa Parks and Myles Horton 6/8/73
9/24 Jill Johnston 6/29/73
9/25 Günter Grass 10/1/73
9/26 Ollie, Big Bob, Medium Bob & Marilyn 10/16/73
9/27 Frederick Wiseman 11/9/73
9/28 Maya Angelou 5/13/74
9/29 Edward Sadlowski and Theodore Smolarek 7/1/74
9/30 Patricia O’Brien 7/6/73
10/1 Carolyn See 8/16/74
10/2 Leon Golub 9/6/74
10/3 Andra Medea and Kathleen Thompson 10/9/74
10/4 Milton Mayer 12/27/74
10/5 Vine Deloria Jr. 1/20/75
10/6 William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg 3/11/75
10/7 Dolores Huerta 4/16/75
10/8 Ada “Bricktop” Smith 5/6/75
10/9 Nora Ephron 7/28/75
10/10 Dennis Brutus 10/16/75
10/11 Jane Kennedy 11/6/75
10/12 Muhammad Ali 11/26/75
10/13 Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader 2/12/76
10/14 Frederick Wiseman 2/20/76
10/15 James Baldwin 4/29/76
10/16 Oriana Fallaci 3/8/77
10/17 Joan Didion 4/7/77
10/18 Anne Foreman and Mary Jo Risher 7/25/77
10/19 Ron Kovic 7/29/77
10/20 Blind John Davis 9/20/77
10/21 Toni Morrison 10/7/77
10/22 Florence Reece and Pete Seeger 3/17/78
10/23 Susan Sontag 6/30/78
10/24 Dan Berman and Bob Fowler 3/29/79
10/25 Carlos Fuentes 6/1/79
10/26 Maya Angelou and Tom Wicker 7/1/79
10/27 Vine Deloria Jr. 10/12/79
10/28 Germaine Greer 11/1/79
10/29 Myra Alexander 1980
10/30 John Cage and Peter Gena 1980
10/31 Erica Jong 9/8/80
11/1 Oriana Fallaci 11/21/80
11/2 Toni Morrison 4/16/81
11/3 Thor Heyerdahl 10/9/81
11/4 Betty Friedan and Ellen Goodman 10/15/81
11/5 Tom Wolfe 11/16/81
11/6 Hamiji Kito, Masami Nakajima, and Hideko Timura 5/31/82
11/7 Gloria Steinem 6/17/82
11/8 Mort Sahl 8/11/83
11/9 Vine Deloria Jr. 11/17/83
11/10 Gore Vidal 6/22/84
11/11 Edward Said 10/1/84
11/12 James Baldwin 11/22/85
11/13 Oliver W. Sacks,Part 2 12/4/85
11/14 Claude Lanzmann 1/9/86
11/15 Margaret Atwood 3/13/86
11/16 Gerda Lerner 6/26/86
11/17 David Dellinger, Abbie Hoffman, and Bobby Seale 3/26/88
11/18 Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich 9/16/88
11/19 Margaret Atwood 2/28/89
11/20 Anthony Braxton 8/24/89
11/21 Barbara Ehrenreich 9/18/89
11/22 Diane Ackerman 7/17/90
11/23 Kurt Vonnegut 6/14/91
11/24 Sandra Cisneros 6/30/91
11/25 Ursula K. Le Guin 11/22/91
11/26 Joe Gutierrez and Ed Sadlowski 2/11/92
11/27 Barbara Kopple 3/20/92
11/28 Adrienne Cecile Rich 9/23/92
11/29 Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan 10/5/92
11/30 William Least Heat-Moon 11/5/92
12/1 Bill Ayers 6/23/93
12/2 Sister Helen Prejean 4/13/94
12/3 Roger G. Kennedy 9/22/94
12/4 Oliver W. Sacks 3/15/95
12/5 Jamaica Kincaid 1/31/96
12/6 Edwidge Danticat 5/8/96

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