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The U.S. Work Projects Administration Federal Music Project [collection]
- Title
- The U.S. Work Projects Administration Federal Music Project [collection]
- Dates Created
- Span: 1935-1948
- Bulk: 1936-1941
- Language
- English
- Form
- collection
- Physical Description
- 91 ft.
- 272 boxes
- Abstract
- The prime objective of the Federal Music Project (1935-1939) and the subsequent WPA
Music Program (1939-1943) was to give employment to professional musicians registered on the relief rolls. The project employed these musicians as instrumentalists, singers, concert performers, and teachers of music. The general purpose of the Music Project was to establish high standards of musicianship, to rehabilitate musicians by assisting them to become self-supporting, to retrain musicians, and to educate the public in the appreciation of musical opportunities. Dr. Nikolai Sokoloff, former conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, was appointed Director of the Federal Music Project. - Contents Note
- Other Federal Music Project materials can be found in the Federal Writers' Project, which is housed in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, and in the Federal Theatre Project, which is in the Music Division. WPA recordings of performances of various musical groups sponsored by the Federal Music Project are housed in the Recorded Sound Division of the Library. Materials from the Federal Arts Project are housed in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library. Additional FMP materials are in the National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 69, Washington, DC.
- Preferred Citation
- The U.S. Work Projects Administration Federal Music Project, Music Division, Library of Congress
- Access Permissions
- Researchers wishing to work with special collections are advised to inquire in advance about availability of material since many special collections are stored off-site.
- Copyright
- Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
- Subjects
- Chamber Music
- Choral Music
- Folk Music
- Opera
- Orchestral Music
- Songs
- Foster, George Allen
- Seeger, Charles
- Sokoloff, Nikolai
- U.S. Work Projects Administration Federal Music Project
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Finding Aid
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu009011
Last Updated: 08-24-2012