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Posted:
July 15, 2025
Music:
- Rebecca and Penelope Tarwater w/ Charles Pollack and Bernard Steffen “My Horses Ain’t Hungry” (American Folklife Center Collection, Library of Congress) 1936
- Ernest Sexton “Turkey in the Straw” (American Folklife Center Collection, Library of Congress) 1938 or 1939
Notes:
Patrick loads up a fascinating read on his Kindle by Sheryl Kaskowitz called “A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR’s Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression―One Song at a Time.” It covers “the music unit,” part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, which played a critical role in preserving American music history.
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