W.P.A. collection. Federal Music Project annual report, 1940.

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W.P.A. collection. Federal Music Project annual report, 1940.

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Annual report of the Federal Music Project of Louisiana contains maps showing location of project units; statistics and other information pertaining to personnel, performances, sponsorship, expansion, and training; and copies of commendatory letters.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Federal Music Project (La.)

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United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana

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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...