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Title	Dance orchestra playing in Cincinnati
Subject	Music--Performance African Americans--Music Dance orchestras Federal Music Project (U.S.) Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
Time Period	1930s
Place	Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description	Original description reads: "Federal Music Project. Negro Dance Orchestra performing on the terrace in front of Union Station, Cincinnati, Ohio." The Federal Music Project (FMP), part of the Federal government of the United States New Deal program Federal Project No. 1, employed musicians, conductors and composers during the Great Depression. People in the music world had been particularly hard-hit by the era's economic downturn. In addition to performing thousands of concerts, offering music classes, organizing the Composers Forum Laboratory, hosting music festivals and creating 34 new orchestras, employees of the FMP researched American traditional music and folk songs, a practice now called ethnomusicology. In the latter domain the Federal Music Project did notable studies on cowboy, Creole and "Negro" music. The FMP's director—for the majority of its brief life—was Nikolai Sokoloff. During the Great Depression, many people visited these symphonies to forget about the economic hardship of the time.
Creator	Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Date of Original	July 21, 1936
Collection	Ohio Guide Photographs
Source	State Archives Series 1039 AV
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	SA1039AV_B03F11_003_1.tif
Image Height	4960
Image Width	6190
File Size	92134064 Bytes
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2010-03-17
Date modified	2010-04-19

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