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The Federal Music Project of the Works Progress Administration: Music in a Democracy (University of Minnesota Press, 1963) Gough, Peter, and Peggy Seeger, Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West (2015) Galván, Gary. "The ABCs of the WPA Music Copying Project and the Fleisher Collection". American Music. 26, Number 4 ...
A significant aspect of the Works Progress Administration was the Federal Project Number One, which had five different parts: the Federal Art Project, the Federal Music Project, the Federal Theatre Project, the Federal Writers' Project, and the Historical Records Survey. The government wanted to provide new federal cultural support instead of ...
Federal Project Number One, also referred to as Federal One (Fed One), is the collective name for a group of projects under the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program in the United States. Of the $ 4.88 billion allocated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 , [ 1 ] $27 million was approved for the employment of artists ...
It was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal program. It was one of a group of New Deal arts programs known collectively as Federal Project Number One or Federal One. FWP employed thousands of people and produced hundreds of publications, including state guides, city guides, local histories, oral histories, ethnographies ...
Pages in category "Works Progress Administration" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. ... Federal Art Project; Federal Music Project ...
Federal Emergency Relief Administration: No FHA: 1934: Federal Housing Administration: Yes (now subdivision of HUD) FLSA: 1938: Fair Labor Standards Act: Yes FMP: 1935: Federal Music Project (part of WPA) No FSA: 1935: Farm Security Administration: No FSRC: 1933: Federal Surplus Relief Corporation: No FTP: 1935: Federal Theatre Project (part of ...
The Works Progress Administration's Federal Project Number One establishes the Federal Music Project to help unemployed musicians, which was then estimated to be about 70% of all musicians in the country. The project will employ 16,000 people, fund twenty-eight symphony orchestras teach music classes to more than fourteen million people. [14 ...
Ruth Erskine Tripp (December 26, 1897 – May 1971) was an American [1] composer, [2] [3] music critic, [4] educator, [5] and pianist. [6] She administered the Works Progress Administration's Federal Music Project (WPA FMP) in the state of Rhode Island from 1940 to 1943. [7] Tripp was born in Dighton, Massachusetts, to Everett E. and Martha ...