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“Foundations of Folk: The Federal Music Project, The Joint Committee on Folk Arts, and the Archive of American Folk-Song”

Ogier, Jarod M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1354588034

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2012, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Music.
Beginning in 1935, Federal Project Number One of the Works Progress Administration supported the creation of government-funded arts projects that were directed from Washington. The Federal Music Project, one of Project One’s constituent efforts, organized performing ensembles, concerts, and educational projects: its efficacy has been debated. Missing from the FMP record is a clear narrative regarding its relationship to folk music in America. This may be because the developments taking place in folk music during the 1930s were largely overlooked by the FMP and its administrators with the exception of one, Charles Seeger. The relatively small connection to folk music in the FMP was, however, taken up by the Federal Writers’ Project and its director, Benjamin Botkin. In 1938 Botkin organized a committee, known as the Joint Committee on Folk Arts, which helped to unite folk music and folklore studies across all WPA agencies. It also worked with the Library of Congress toward the creation of the Archive of American Folk-Song, a repository of folk materials that continues to exist to the present day. The significance of the Joint Committee on Folk Arts was twofold. First, it encouraged the proliferation of American folk music in ways that the FMP did not. Second, it became the nexus of ideas in regard to folk materials within the WPA and supported the creation of a centrally located repository for folksong.
Danielle Fosler-Lussier, PhD (Advisor)
Graeme Boone, PhD (Committee Member)
Ryan Skinner, PhD (Committee Member)
80 p.
History; Music
Joint Committee on Folk Arts; Folk Music; Federal Music Project

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  • Ogier, J. M. (2012). “Foundations of Folk: The Federal Music Project, The Joint Committee on Folk Arts, and the Archive of American Folk-Song” [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1354588034

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ogier, Jarod. “Foundations of Folk: The Federal Music Project, The Joint Committee on Folk Arts, and the Archive of American Folk-Song”. 2012. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1354588034.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ogier, Jarod. "“Foundations of Folk: The Federal Music Project, The Joint Committee on Folk Arts, and the Archive of American Folk-Song”." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1354588034

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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