New Mexico Federal Music Project collection, 1936-1943.

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New Mexico Federal Music Project collection, 1936-1943.

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The collection is divided into two series: an administrative series, and a series containing materials related to the folk music project. The administrative series primarily contains reports and correspondence. Helen Chandler Ryan's monthly narrative reports detail the program's activities, attendence, accomplishments, problems, and frustrations. The folk music series contains copies of sheet music and song texts to "Spanish-American" folk songs collected throughout New Mexico, largely by Hispanos, as part of the Project. Songs were collected, then transcribed, mimeographed, and distributed to Federal Music teachers, who taught the songs to singing and string orchestra groups. Compilations of Spanish American folk songs, dance tunes, and singing games were produced for distribution. Folk music projects also included performances of Christmas music and of the play, Los Pastores.

1 box (.45 cu. ft.)

spa,

eng,

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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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...

Ryan, Helen Chandler.

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The Federal Music Project (FMP) was organized in 1935 as an agency of the Works Progress Administration to provide work relief for unemployed musicians. Subsequently, the program became known as the WPA Music Program. The program lasted until 1943. The Federal Music Project organized orchestras, bands, dance bands, chamber music ensembles, opera and choral units, and composers' forums across the country. Preservation of folk music was an important goal of the FMP, which provided copying, researc...

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...

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

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Federal Music Project (N.M.)

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

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