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Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West . Music in American Life Series. By Peter Gough. Foreword by Peggy Seeger. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. xvii + 267 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00.) From 1933 until the onset of World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal aimed to reverse the economic downturn of the Great Depression through work programs administered by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). While these programs failed to end the Depression, they left a colorful history of early progressive experiments in a mixed economy. Of particular note here are the New Deal’s efforts to create work for unemployed artists, writers, poets, moviemakers, and musicians. Peter Gough’s book traces the origins and development of the … magician{at}uw.edu
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