Film, Video Sidney Robertson Cowell & the WPA California Folk Music Project, 1938-1940
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- Title
- Sidney Robertson Cowell & the WPA California Folk Music Project, 1938-1940
- Summary
- Catherine Hiebert Kerst discusses how, as a young woman of 35, Sidney Robertson proposed, organized and directed a California Work Projects Administration project designed to survey musical traditions from a wide range of English-speaking and immigrant communities in Northern California. Her efforts generated the WPA California Folk Music Project (1938-1940), a remarkable multi-format ethnographic field collection (with recordings, photographs, sketches and drawings of the musical instruments, and field notes) that captured a unique cross-section of the music that people of many backgrounds were performing at the time.
- Event Date
- May 09, 2017
- Notes
- - Catherine Hiebert Kerst recently retired from the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, where she served as a folklife specialist.
- Related Resources
- Music & Performing Arts at the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/
- American Folklife Center: https://www.loc.gov/folklife/
- Running Time
- 1 hours 2 minutes 10 seconds
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- video
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- Sidney Robertson Cowell, Ethnographer and Folk Music Collector | Articles and Essays | California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell | Digital Collections
- The Ethnographic Experience: Sidney Robertson Cowell in Northern California | Articles and Essays | California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell | Digital Collections
- WPA California Ethnic, Cultural, and Language Groups | Articles and Essays | California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell | Digital Collections
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