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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 ...
The alphabet agencies, or New Deal agencies, were the U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The earliest agencies were created to combat the Great Depression in the United States and were established during Roosevelt's first 100 days in office in 1933.
National director Hallie Flanagan with bulletin boards identifying Federal Theatre Project productions under way throughout the United States. The Federal Theatre Project (FTP; 1935–1939) was a theatre program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal to fund live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States.
Throughout 2018 and 2019, he repeatedly flagged what he said were troubling issues, according to court filings: first, a statutory rape claim involving a 15-year-old Paralympic athlete; and later ...
Safety failures by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons including the widespread use of single cells and failure to keep out drugs and weapons led to preventable inmate deaths, the Justice Department ...
A big project can upend the lives of tens of thousands of people. Since 2004, World Bank estimates indicate that at least a dozen bank-supported projects physically or economically displaced more than 50,000 people each. Studies show that forced relocations can rip apart kinship networks and increase risks of illness and disease.