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	Federal Theatre Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) was a project to fund theater performances in the United States during the Great Depression.
		It was one of five Federal One projects sponsored by the New Deal's Works Projects Administration (WPA).
		The federal government soon mandated that the FTP, a government agency, could not depict foreign heads of state on the stage, for fear of diplomatic backlash.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federal_Theatre_Project (506 words)

	Federal Music Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Federal Music Project (FMP), part of the United States federal government New Deal program Federal One, employed musicians, conductors and composers during the Great Depression.
		In addition to performing thousands of concerts, offering music classes, organizing the Composers Forum Laboratory, hosting music festivals and creating 34 new orchestras, employees of the FMP researched American traditional music and folk songs, a practice now called ethnomusicology.
		In the latter domain the Federal Music Project did notable studies on cowboy, Creole and "Negro" music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federal_Music_Project (222 words)

	UCLA Music Library: Access and Circulation Services
		When the Federal Music Project was disbanded the large orchestral and operatic library which had been assembled, and in part copied, as part of the Federal program, was deposited with UCLA, through the efforts of Professor Gustave O. Arlt.
		Later, some 450 volumes of music periodicals and music literature, of particular importance to graduate students and faculty members, were transferred from the main stack, and together with historical music collections and composers complete works, were shelved as a separate non-circulating collection.
		With the transfer of the Music Department's records collection of 10,000 discs, which is shelved in a closed stack and circulated from the library desk, we assumed a new service of considerable magnitude and importance.
	www.library.ucla.edu /libraries/music/history.htm (889 words)

	New Deal Cultural Programs
		Federal One projects involved a far greater degree of national direction than public arts administrators of the post-1960s era have considered appropriate.
		The Federal Writers Project employed 6,686 writers at its peak in April 1936, with active projects in all 48 states and the District of Columbia.
		Federal One created opportunities for artists who would have had the greatest difficulties sustaining their work otherwise; and for thousands of people who might never have been able to paint or write or attend live theater themselves.
	www.wwcd.org /policy/US/newdeal.html (4418 words)

	The WPA
		With the establishment of the WPA in 1935, the Federal Art Project (FAP) began as a part of Federal One with Holger Cahill as its director.
		The Theatre Project’s survival clearly became a political issue when it was scrutinized by the House Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, under the Chairmanship of Martin Dies.
		The HRS was financially the most efficient of all the Federal One programs and averaged 2,500 employees a month with a high in 1938 of 6,000 employed at an average salary of $73.00 per month.
	www.co.broward.fl.us /library/bienes/lii10204.htm (2076 words)

	The Federal Writers
		One of the institutions set up to address this demand was the Federal Writers' Project; though the official purpose of the FWP was to attempt to ease the economic despair of destitute workers, it also helped to bring a needed sense of unity and optimism to Americans.
		The Federal Writers' Project proposed to address this dual need in three ways: it was coordinated on a regional level, showcased a growing interest in minorities, and helped to promote national values (Penkower vii).
		Thus, Communists were allowed on the project, but many did not proclaim themselves in fear that their political affiliation would cost them a job that was so desperately needed and highly sought after by others.
	www.accd.edu /sac/honors/main/papers02/Yeager.htm (3617 words)

	H-Net Review: Robert G. Weiner on All of This Music Belongs to the Nation: The WPA's Federal ...
		According to Bindas the FMP had five major goals: 1) to provide employment for musicians; 2) to set high standards for these musicians; 3) to create an intelligent musical public; 4) to stimulate community interest; and 5) to demonstrate that constructive work was being done to combat the Depression (p.
		The goal was to expose the American public to cultivated music, not "uncultured noise." (The criticisms leveled at popular music forms of that day sound very similar to those leveled against rock 'n' roll during the 1950s.) Of course, there were a few exceptions, but even these were kept at a low profile.
		Because a goal of the FMP was to provide Americans with a chance to appreciate purely American music, most of the FMP's concerts contained pieces written by American composers, including local composers from the cities where the FMP concerts were held as well as well-known composers.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28695858702555 (964 words)

	Popular Music and Society: All of This Music Belongs to the Nation: The WPA's Federal Music Project and American ...
		This compact study of the Federal Music Project during the 1930s is very straightforward and thorough.
		Nikolai Sokoloff, the national director of the Federal Music Project, was particularly sensitive to the dangers of politicizing his activities in terms of political and public support.
		Popular music did not yet include overt protest music in the 1930s, but it was identified with both ethnic groups and proletarian concerns.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2822/is_3_23/ai_64190192 (734 words)

	Don Farren on the Federal Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Under Hopkins the federal "white-collar" projects were born -- Federal Writers, Federal Arts, Federal Music, Federal Theatre, Historical Records Survey, American Imprints Inventory -- with Ellen Woodward and her very capable assistant Florence Kerr (from Iowa) directly in charge of them at the national level.
		Most of these projects operated in all of the states at one time or another; and many of them at the state level, under male State Administrators, were in charge of women who supervised the "White-collar" responsibilities and personnel.
		Federal Theatre had selected it as their first presentation, and in the nation's capital.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/Bai/farran.htm (4331 words)

	Federal Theatre Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although this Music Division collection is of great cultural import in its own right, it has also served as the basis for research and development in multifaceted digital archiving at the Library.
		The Federal Theatre Project (FTP), along with the Federal Music Project, the Federal Art Project and Federal Writers' Project, provided employment to many otherwise out-of-work artistic professionals from 1935 until 1939.
		The goals of this project were to determine what would serve as "preservation quality" as well as "access quality" images for typical manuscript documents, as well as to study speed of digital conversion.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9712/text/ftp.html (1358 words)

	Teacher Resources - Collection - Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
		In 1935, the WPA established the Federal Project Number One, a collection of government-funded programs for professionals in the fields of drama, music, writing, and art.
		Project Director Nikolai Sokoloff led a campaign to provide free concerts, music education, and newly-commissioned music to the public.
		Similar to the Federal Music Project's Index of American Composers, this project provided a photographic record of the country's artistic accomplishments by documenting thousands of paintings, sculptures, handicrafts, and folk art between 1935 and 1942.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/collections/poster/history.html (1928 words)

	NARA - ALIC - New Deal Arts
		Provides details on the activities of the Federal Theatre and the reception it received in various areas as well as information on the controversy surrounding the project and its eventual termination.
		NX 735.M3 Looks at the origins, operations, and ideology of each of the branches of Federal One, the Federal Writers' Project, the Federal Theatre Project, the Federal Music Project, the Federal Art Project, and the Historical Records Survey, as well as considering governmental arts projects more generally.
		N 8838.N4 The majority of the memoirs collected here are associated with Federal support for the visual arts: the New Deal then and now, which was published in 1969 and looked at New Deal art projects and their legacy in New York.
	www.archives.gov /research/alic/reference/new-deal-arts.html (2746 words)

	The Great Depression and the Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Federal Music Project (FMP) provided jobs for thousands of musicians who performed for millions during the lifetime of the project.
		Under the direction of Chairman Martin Dies (D-Texas), the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was charged with the task of determining the "extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States." The Chairman and its conservative members turned their attention to left-wing groups, immigrant organizations, and labor unions.
		The project involved a staff similar to that of a large city newspaper, with editors, reporters, and copyreaders.
	newdeal.feri.org /nchs/lesson04.htm (2131 words)

	SUNY Potsdam: Federal Funding for Music Education Project
		This project brings together the resources and talents of SUNY Potsdam, the VH1 Save The Music Foundation and the New York City Board of Education to address the critical need for music educators in New York City.
		The VH1 Save the Music Foundation is dedicated to turning back the recent trend of eliminating music education in public schools.
		The Foundation is committed to restoring music education programs and raising awareness of the positive impact music participation has on students by providing a gift of musical instruments for this New York City project.
	www.potsdam.edu /news/2003/vh1_funding.html (794 words)

	Federal Theatre Project Collection
		A project to update an index to portraits in periodicals that was published in 1906 by the Library of Congress for the American Library Association is a good example.
		By January 24, 1934, the project employed fifty-one indexers, but on February 16 the staff was cut by 50 percent, and then it was cut by 10 percent each week until all work ceased on May 1.
		The four projects aimed at these groups were designated Federal Project Number One (and referred to as Federal One), and four national directors were chosen.
	international.loc.gov /ammem/fedtp/ftcole02.html (1042 words)

	The WPA
		Federal One was the umbrella organization for the government’s artistic and professional work-relief programs.
		He was one of the project’s half-dozen state editors who worked at converting raw copy submitted by some one hundred field workers into finishing chapters for the Florida guide.
		Project work includes bas-relief designs of Florida fauna, carved in native stone on the Coral Gables Library; murals in the Orlando Chamber of Commerce; over-mantel decorations in the student union building at the University of Florida; seven murals in the Tony Jannus Administration Building at the Tampa airport; and many murals in school buildings.
	www.co.broward.fl.us /library/bienes/lii10213.htm (3370 words)

	Federal Art Project
		Federal Project Number One was led by Jacob Baker and branched into four divisions.
		Although, the Federal Art Project existed in all the states, it was found that artists were heavily concentrated in the cities.
		Another ruling brought down in 1938, was that Federal Project Number One had to be supported with at least twenty five percent of their operating budget from local sources.
	www.harwich.edu /depts/history/HHJ/fedart.html (6443 words)

	Government Assistance in the 1930's: The New Deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Federal Project One was a separate section of the WPA, which included five major divisions: the Federal Art Project (FAP), the Federal Music Project, the Federal Theatre Project, the Federal Writers Project and the Historical Records Survey.
		The Federal Writers Project employed 6,686 writers at its peak in April 1936, with active projects in all 48 states.
		It established a federal was most widely known for the old-age assistance, in which workers reaching sixty-five years old were eligible for retirement benefits depending upon how much they had contributed in taxes over their lifetimes.
	sun.menloschool.org /~nfortman/8th/decadesweb.2003/allegraa (1111 words)

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		The Federal Writers Project: The Federal Writers Project employed 6,686 writers at its peak in April 1936, with active projects in all 48 states and the District of Columbia.
		The board of directors first appointed shall be deemed the incorporators and the incorporation shall be held to have been effected from the date of the first meeting of the board.
		FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF CORPORATION.--There is hereby established a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the "Corporation") which shall insure, as hereinafter provided, the deposits of all banks and savings associations which are entitled to the benefits of insurance under this Act, and which shall have the powers hereinafter granted.
	www.mtsu.edu /~tah/currunits/newdeal/mayfieldlesson4doc3.doc (1660 words)

	Journal of San Diego History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For this reason an opera project was not viewed as a practical venture for the Federal Music Project.
		In San Diego, Federal Music Project administrators and relief workers were able to avoid "the high cost of production" and were thereby able to bring to the people fine productions of light and grand opera.
		Special effects with lights and costumes were "specialties" of the WPA projects in theatre and music, mainly because they were forced into creativity by their relative poverty.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/72summer/opera.htm (4182 words)

	Federal Project Number One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Known as "Federal One" for short, Federal Project Number One was created in 1935 as a subdivision of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that sought to extend the relief of the New Deal to artists, actors, writers, and musicians.
		ER lent her wholehearted support to the creation of the Federal One programs, lobbied FDR to sign the executive order creating them, praised the projects in her columns and speeches, and defended them against congressional critics.
		ER felt particularly attached to Federal One's Federal Theatre Project and she delighted in the artistic work that she saw being crafted with federal dollars.
	www.gwu.edu /~erpapers/abouteleanor/q-and-a/glossary/federal-project-number1.htm (389 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: FEDERAL MUSIC PROJECT
		Early relief was administered inefficiently under the New Deal's Civil Works Administration and Federal Emergency Relief Administration, forerunners of the Work Projects Administration, until, in mid-1935 the Federal Music Project was organized as an agency of the WPA.
		A third of federal relief was divided among the forty-four remaining states.
		Partly because of the uneven distribution of funds under Sokoloff, under Dr. Earl Vincent Moore the FMP lost its charter as a federal agency; this shifted the sponsorship of projects to the state and local level, where it had been in Texas virtually all along.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/FF/xmf1_print.html (689 words)

	Art for the People
		In Virginia, twenty-seven post office buildings, many constructed by the Public Works Administration, were decorated through the Treasury Department's program with murals of Virginia history and people painted by artists from different parts of the country.
		Federal Project Number One was a WPA project consisting of five divisions—the Federal Art Project, the Federal Music Project, the Federal Theatre Project, the Federal Writers' Project, and the Historical Records Survey.
		Directed nationally by Holger Cahill and statewide by Adèle Clark, the Federal Art Project flatly sought to develop a greater appreciation for American art through education and the integration of fine arts with practical arts.
	www.lva.lib.va.us /whoweare/exhibits/newdeal/art.htm (169 words)

	A Non (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At its inception, the project was divided to run on a regional basis but later was administered at the state level under the name of WPA Music Project.
		In New Mexico and other states orchestras, bands, and choral groups were sponsored and such projects were adjuncts to much needed music programs in the public schools.
		Musical activities were also sponsored in some of the nation's CCC camps and the Federal Music Program collaborated with the WPA Writers Project to collect and research the folk songs and dances of various ethnic cultures around the nation.
	www.newdeallegacy.org /music_projects.html (222 words)

	WPA Federal Music Project of NYC presents Brahms symphony series Federal symphony orchestra distinguished conductors ...
		WPA Federal Music Project of NYC presents Brahms symphony series Federal symphony orchestra distinguished conductors and assisting artists.
		WPA Federal Music Project of NYC [presents] Brahms symphony series Federal symphony orchestra - distinguished conductors and assisting artists.
		Poster for Federal Music Project presentation of Brahms symphony series at the WPA Federal Music Theatre, 254 West 54 St., New York City.
	www.rainfall.com /posters/WPA/1820.htm (346 words)

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		Ernst Bacon was born in 1898 in Chicago, but moved to the San Francisco area in the 1920s and soon occupied a prominent role in the musical life of Northern California.
		Under his directorship, the San Francisco Federal Music Project achieved widespread popular acclaim, as the papers in the collection attest.
		The musical debuted on December 2, 1936, and was originally performed by the San Francisco Federal Music Project, with Bacon directing the musical aspects of the show.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/spc/xml/m0906.xml (449 words)

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