Category: Arts & Humanities, Spanish, American music, California
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The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians. This elaborate New Deal project was organized and directed by folk music collector Sidney Robertson Cowell for the Northern California Work Projects Administration.
American music | Arts & Humanities | Audio | California | Cultural anthropology | English | Entertainment | Folk music | Folklife | History of California | Image | Library of Congress | Spanish | Text | United States | Music
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