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California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
By Library of Congress
Jan 25, 2007, 10:02 PST
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This WPA California Folk Music Project includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing 185 musicians.
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This elaborate New Deal project was organized and directed by folk music collector Sidney Robertson Cowell for the Northern California Work Projects Administration. Sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, and cosponsored by the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center), this undertaking was one of the earliest ethnographic field projects to document European, Slavic, Middle Eastern, and English- and Spanish-language folk music in one region of the United States.
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