Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material Federal Music Project collection, U.S. Work Projects Administration. Federal Music Project collection,

Title

• Federal Music Project collection,

Other Title

• U.S. Work Projects Administration. Federal Music Project collection,

Summary

• Contains agency reports, programs, catalogs, index cards, lists, correspondence, questionnaires, press releases, clippings, some music scores and parts, a few writings, and the papers of George Allen Foster, regional director for New York and New England. The George Allen Foster Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, programs, clippings and reports. These materials span the years from 1935 to 1948, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1936 to 1941. Contains some reports by Nikolai Sokoloff, director of the Federal Music Project, and Charles Seeger.

Names

• Federal Music Project (U.S.)
• Foster, George Allen
• Sokoloff, Nikolai, 1886-1965
• Seeger, Charles, 1886-1979

Headings

• -  Foster, George Allen
• -  Federal Music Project (U.S.)
• -  Music Program (U.S.)
• -  Composers' Forum (U.S.)
• -  New Deal, 1933-1939
• -  Music--United States
• -  Music and state--United States--History--20th century

Notes

• -  Organized into the following series: I. Reports, 1936-1943, II. Music Library, 1936-1941, III. Music and Other Performing Media, 1936-1940, IV. Composers Index, 1936-1941, V. Bio-Bibliographical Index of Musicians, 1936-1940, VI. Writings, 1906 and undated, VII. Programs, 1935-1943, VIII. Clippings, 1935-1941, IX. Miscellany, 1935-1939, X. George Allen Foster Collection, 1936-1948.
• -  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.
• -  U. S. Work Projects Administration (WPA) Federal Music Project (FMP) records were received by the Library of Congress as the WPA L.C. Project, Music Unit, on October 15, 1940.
• -  Transfer; c1940.
• -  Gift; George T. Foster; 1992.
• -  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.
• -  Additional Federal Music Project materials are in the National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 69.
• -  Sound recordings located in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress.
• -  Other Federal Music Project materials can be found and in the Federal Theatre Project, which is housed in the Music Division of the Library of Congress.
• -  The Library of Congress Manuscript Division holds the United States Work Projects Administration records.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu009011
• -  Federal Music Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

Medium

• approximately 111,190 items (278 boxes, 93 linear feet)

Call Number/Physical Location

• ML31 .F43

Repository

• Library of Congress Music Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/perform.home

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2006560198

Rights Advisory

• Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.

Access Advisory

• Open to research.
• Not all materials in this collection may be readily accessible; please request accessibility information well in advance of your visit http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/perform.contact

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2006560198

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record