Proposed Recording Expedition into the Floridas

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[1939

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Dr. Carita Doggett Corse, state director of the Florida Federal Writers' Project, forwards to B. A. Botkin, national folklore director for the Federal Writers' Project and chairman of the Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the WPA, a copy of Florida Federal Writers' Project editor Zora Neale Hurston's "Proposed Recording Expedition Into the Floridas." Hurston's essay was written in preparation for the visit of Herbert Halpert (director of the folk song department of the National Service Bureau, Federal Theater Project) on the Joint Committee on Folk Art and Library of Congress-sponsored southern recording expedition. According to Dr. Corse, "His trip was cut short so that only a few of these recordings were made. Zora Neale Hurston completed contacts for Negro recordings at the turpentine camp in Cross City and in Tampa before she was called to Philadelphia." <cor017>

Subjects

Ethnography
Correspondence
Essays

Object Type

text

Medium

manuscript; 9 pages

Language

English

Call Number

Zora Neale Hurston Corporate Subject File

Part of

Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections 1937-1942

Digital ID

afcflwpa essay1
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcflwpa.essay1

Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942