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Sounds of the New Deal : the Federal Music Project in the West
- Title
- Sounds of the New Deal : the Federal Music Project in the West / Peter Gough ; foreword by Peggy Seeger.
- Author
- Gough, Peter, 1960-
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Seeger, Peggy, 1935-
- Description
- xvi, 259 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Music in American life
- Uniform Title
- Music in American life.
- Subject
- Federal Music Project (U.S.)
- New Deal (1933-1939)
- 1900 - 1999
- Government aid to music > United States
- Music > Social aspects > History > United States > 20th century
- Music and state > United States > History > 20th century
- New Deal, 1933-1939
- Government aid to music
- Music and state
- Music > Social aspects
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "Musicians have to eat, too!" : the New Deal and the FMP -- "Out where the West begins" : Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada -- Innovation, participation, and "a horrible musical stew" : California -- "Spit, baling wire, mirrors" and the WPA : Colorado, Utah, Oregon, and Washington -- "No one sings as convincingly as the darkies do" : song and diversity -- "Ballad for americans" : the music of the popular front -- "The folk of the nation" : no horses need apply -- Conclusion : "The varied carols we hear".
- Call Number
- JNE 15-32
- ISBN
- 9780252039041
- 0252039041
- 9780252097010 (canceled/invalid)
- 0252097017 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014033612
- OCLC
- 889666518
- Author
- Gough, Peter, 1960- author.
- Title
- Sounds of the New Deal : the Federal Music Project in the West / Peter Gough ; foreword by Peggy Seeger.
- Publisher
- Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Music in American lifeMusic in American life.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Added Author
- Seeger, Peggy, 1935- writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- JNE 15-32