The New Deal government wanted to promote its policies with a federal control over the country. Actually, the states adapted the policies to their own circumstances. As a result, the New Deal shaped the states with diversity. How was music rediscovered through the FMP in California? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is possible to come across sounds recording on the Library of Congress database. Sidney Robertson Cowell, who worked for the California Music Project, was facing cultural competition with music spreading in the 1930s through new technologies like the radio, movies, and similar centralized media<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cowell documented Anglo-American songs in Central Valley, Boomtown, Shasta County, California. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cowell illustrated the story of merchants<\/span> being stolen in the mountain<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. She makes us take a glimpse into everyday life histories through music inspired from a mix of cultures in the 1930s.\n\n\n\n Ward Ford, the performer, immerges us also into the life of farmers<\/span><\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. He sheds light on the usual troubles that farmers had to deal with.\n\n\n\n The stories are sung, and it brings a different atmosphere. We want to listen to them, and we can picture in our mind the merchants being stolen in the mountain or the farmer who plows the field. We let them rock us. We suddenly imagine ourselves in Central Valley back in 1938 and what it was like to live at that time in California. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Radio Diaries shared content about Ballad for Americans<\/em><\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. Paul Robeson sings “I am the nobody who is everybody”. In other words, the radio documentary translates this expression as the way for Paul Robeson, and the folk culture in the 1930s, to talk to all Americans <\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The FMP in California helped to enhance the folk culture and brought meaning to people life. Cowell, among others, was recording the voices of the time so we can hear them forever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The FMP reminded people that it was still possible to live under the sun of California, singing your troubles, between joy and sorrow, the 1930s and the Great Depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Embedding audios helps to integrate the sound within the text. It results into a great uninterrupted flow. Nothing can stop the audience from feeling the atmosphere of the 1930s. It is also a direct and practical tool. Within a click, the audience can listen to the clip while reading. It allows a combination of reading and listening at the same time creating a dynamism within the text. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The New Deal government wanted to promote its policies with a federal control over the country. Actually, the states adapted the policies to their own circumstances. As a result, the New Deal shaped the states with diversity. How was music rediscovered through the FMP in California? It is possible to come across sounds recording on … Continue reading “The FMP in California”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}