Politics of Culture: The Federal Music Project in Oklahoma

Article discusses the Works Progress Administration Federal Music Project instituted as one of the relief programs of the New Deal to provide employment to struggling musicians during the Great Depression. Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr. investigates its success as well as the difficulties faced by Dean Richardson, Oklahoma state director of the program.

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Source context

Chronicles of Oklahoma, 63(4), Oklahoma Historical Society, 1985, pp. 361-376

Subjects recorded by the archive

Oklahoma -- History; Labor unions; musicians; music teachers; Music and history; Federal Music Project; Federal Emergency Relief Administration; New Deal, 1933-1939; Civil Works Administration; relief programs; Periodicals; histories

Sources

gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2031508/