City Officials Celebrate The Story Of A Living Legend
The recipients of the 2016 Kennedy Center Honors, actor Al Pacino and musician James Taylor, applaud gospel and blues singer Mavis Staples as she is recognized during a reception in their honor in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press
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The recipients of the 2016 Kennedy Center Honors, actor Al Pacino and musician James Taylor, applaud gospel and blues singer Mavis Staples as she is recognized during a reception in their honor in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press
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City Officials Celebrate The Story Of A Living Legend
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The theme for this year’s “One Book, One Chicago” program is “Music: The Beat of Our City,” and the selected book honors someone who’s still making music and wowing crowds. I’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers and the Music that Shaped the Civil Rights Era is this year’s selection, which was written by Sound Opinions co-host and Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot.
We talk to Jennifer Lizak from Chicago Public LIbrary and Greg Kot about why the book fit the bill and how it’s about so much more than music.