Works Progress Administration Federal Music Project
Organization
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Commonwealth Serenade Orchestra Ernst Hoffman conducting and American Folk Singers Thomas Johnson conducting, 1937
Item — Box 5: [Barcode: 31924113571669], Folder: 3
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
From the Collection:
This collection is comprised of radical song books, music sheets, periodical issues and broadsides spanning the period ca. 1850 to 1990, with primary emphasis on the period 1900-1940. It includes rare pieces (such as numerous early editions of the I.W.W. "Little Red Songbook") as well as ephemeral song-sheets and song-books. Periodicals represented in the collection include "Sing Out!", "Broadside: the Topical Song Magazine", and "Promenade," an influential leftist folk-dance mimeo. The...
Dates:
1937