Helen Chandler Ryan New Mexico Federal Music Project Collection 1936-1943

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Helen Chandler Ryan New Mexico Federal Music Project Collection 1936-1943

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The Federal Music Project was an agency of the Works Progress Administration thatsought to provide work relief for unemployed musicians. This collection documents theactivities of the Federal Music Project in New Mexico. Music education and preservation ofSpanish-American folk music were two primary goals of the project, which was directed byHelen Chandler Ryan.

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Music Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of New Mexico

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Ryan, Helen Chandler

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Lesson Book Cover, "Spanish American Folk Songs of New Mexico" (Box 1, Folder 10). The Federal Music Project (FMP) was organized in 1935 as an agency of the Works Progress Administration to provide work relief for unemployed musicians. The project was headed by Nikolai Sokoloff until his resignation in May 1939, after which time it underwent a major reorganization. Subsequently, the program became known as the WPA Music Program. At its peak in 1936, the program employed ...

War Services Program (N.M.). Music Phase.

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Federal Music Project (N.M.)

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Federal Music Project (U.S.)

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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 educat...