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Sounds of the New Deal : the Federal Music Project in the West / Peter Gough ; foreword by Peggy Seeger.
- Title
- Sounds of the New Deal : the Federal Music Project in the West / Peter Gough ; foreword by Peggy Seeger.
- Author
- Gough, Peter, 1960-
- Publication
- Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [ 2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | ML62 .G62 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 259 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates; 25 cm
- Series Statement
- Music in American life
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Music in American life.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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".
- ISBN
- 9780252039041 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0252039041
- 9780252097010 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 0252097017 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014033612
- OCLC
- 889666518
- SCSB-9934559
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library