Culture, and Government:
The New Deal at 75
Selected Folklife Resources
This list of selected resources contains references
to publications by or about the New Deal programs that focus
on folk and traditional culture — especially fieldwork
and contributions of the Federal Writers' Program's
Folklore Project. It also includes subsequent books, articles,
and internet sites that draw upon materials collected by Works
Progress Administration (WPA) and Farm Security Administration
(FSA) fieldworkers and researchers. The list is based on the
1979 Library of Congress reference aid "Folklore
and the W.P.A.: A Preliminary Bibliography" compiled
by Joseph C. Hickerson with the assistance of Herbert Halpert.
New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources
Books and Articles
Abernethy, Francis, Patrick
Mullen and Alan Govenar, eds. Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American
Folklore. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1996.
Alho, Olli. The Religion of the Slaves: A Study of
the Religious Tradition and Behaviour of Plantation Slaves in the United States
1830-1865. FF Communications no. 217. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatema, Academia Scientiarum
Ambler, Cathy. "The
New Deal's Landscape Legacy in Kansas Cemeteries." Markers:
Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies. 15 (1998),
An, Jee Hyun. "Black Historical Plays of
the 1930's: The Federal Theatre Project and Langston Hughes." Journal
of Modern British and American Drama. 16, i (2003), 5-24.
Asmell, James R., et al, of the Tennessee Writers'
Project. God Bless the Devil: Liars' Bench Tales. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1940.
Baker, James C. "Oregon Gold Mining Folklore:
Federal Writers' Project and Today." Keystone Folklore Quarterly. 16,
ii (1971), 71-79.
Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in
Indiana University Press, 2000.
L. Hoosier Folk Legends. Bloomington:
University of Indiana Press, 1982.
Baker, T. Lindsay and Julie P. Baker, eds. The WPA
Oklahoma Slave Narratives. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.
Banks, Ann. First Person America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
Barry, Phillips. Folk Music in America. New
York: WPA Federal Theatre Project, National Service Bureau. (Publication no.
John and Myron Briggs. "Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell
Their Stories." Folklife Center News. Vol. 26, iii (2004), 12.
Betts, Leonidas and Richard Walser. "North
Carolina Folk Tales from the W.P.A. Writers' Program." North Carolina
Folklore. 19, i (1971), 1-32.
Bindas, Kenneth J. All this Music Belongs to the
Nation: The WPA's Federal Music Project and American Society. Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
Bigham, Shauna. "What
the Slaves Were Really Saying: Race, Signification, and the Deconstruction of
WPA Slave Narratives." Griot: Official Journal of
the Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies, Inc.15,
ii (1996), 22-29.
Birdsall, Esther K. "Folklore Problems and Folklore
Samplings of the American Guide Series." Journal of the Ohio Folklore
Society. 3, iii (1968), 169-185.
Birdsall, Esther K. "Maryland Folklore Recorded in Maryland: A
Guide to the Old Line State." Newsletter of the Folklore Society of
Greater Washington. 5, ii (1968),
Blakey, George T. Creating
a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers' Project
in Indiana, 1935-1942. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2005.
Blansfield, Karen C. "Artistic
and Social Dimensions of Black Culture in the 'Voodoo' Macbeth."
Journal of American Drama and Theatre. 4,
i (1992), 78-100.
Blassingame,John W. "Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems." The Journal of Southern History. 41, iv (1975), 473-492.
Bloxom, Margurite D., compiler. Pickaxe and Pencil: References for the Study of the WPA. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1982.
Bold, Christine. "'Staring the World in the Face,' Sacco and Vanzetti in the WPA
Guide to Massachusetts." Massachusetts Historical Review. 2003.
Bold, Christine. Writers,
Plumbers, and Anarchists: The WPA Writers' Project
in Massachusetts. Amherst,
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Boswell, George W. "Riddles in the WPA-Collected
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Boswell, George W. "The Several Folklore Archives at Oxford." Mississippi
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Boswell, George W. "The WPA-Collected Folklore Archives in
Jackson." Mississippi Folklore Register. 2, iv (1968), 109-112.
Botkin, Benjamin A. Lay My Burden Down: A Folk
History of Slavery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945.
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of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions. 2, i (1944) 37-63.
Botkin, Benjamin A. Supplementary Instructions to the American
Guide Manual for Folklore Studies.
Washington, DC: WPA, Federal Writers' Project, 1938.
Botkin, Benjamin A. A
Treasury of American Folklore. New York: Crown Publishers, 1944.
Botkin, Benjamin A. A Treasury of New England Folklore. New
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Botkin, Benjamin A. "WPA and Folklore Research: 'Bread and Song'." Southern
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Jeutonne P. The Federal Writers' Project:
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Brown, James Seay, Jr., ed. Up before Daylight: Life
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Brown, Lorin W. with Charles L. Briggs and Marta
Weigle. Hispano Folklife of New Mexico: The Lorin W. Brown Federal Writers'
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Check List of California
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Check List of Recorded
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John Y. "Amassing American 'Stuff': The Library of Congress
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Natasha Rene. "'The Hearts of the People': Sterling Allen
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Couch, W. T., et. al. These Are Our Lives: As Told
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Works Progress Administration in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.
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Davis, Hubert J. Christmas in the Mountains:
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Paul D. "Speaking of Slavery: The Historical Value of the
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Felker, Christopher D. "Adaptation
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Ferriss, Abbott L. "Mississippi
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James A. and Margaret Bing. "Touring Florida Through the Federal Writers'
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Part of the Library of Congress's
online American Memory collections, this presentation includes several thousand "life histories" that
were collected and transcribed by the staff of the Folklore Project of
the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects)
Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project: 1936-1938
Part of the Library of Congress's
online American Memory collections, this presentation
contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties
Part of the Library of Congress's
online American Memory collections, this presentation comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in
twelve languages, representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians,
by folk music collector, Sidney Robertson Cowell.
from the WPA Collections 1937-1942
Library of Congress. Recorded by Robert Cook,
Herbert Halpert, Zora Neale Hurston, Stetson Kennedy, Alton Morris, and others
in conjunction with the Florida Federal Writers' Project, the Florida
Music Project, and the Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the Work Projects
Administration, this American Memory presentation
features folksongs and folktales in many languages, including blues and
work songs from menhaden fishing boats, railroad gangs, and turpentine
camps; children's songs, dance music, and religious
music of many cultures; and interviews, also known as "life histories."
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
Library of Congress. The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II. The core of the collection consists of about 164,000 black-and-white photographs.
Library of Congress.
Prints and Photographs On Line Catalog
Farm Security Administration photographs and other important New Deal image
Maine Folklife Center.
The CCC In Acadia National Park
Research and oral
histories interviews with Civil Conservation Corps alumni who worked in
Acadia National Park during the Depression.
Deal for the Arts
An online presentation of The National Archives and Records Administration adapted from an exhibit that was on display from March 28, 1997
through January 11, 1998, in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building
in Washington, D.C.
New Deal Network (Franklin and Elanor Roosevelt Institute)
"Soul of a People," webcast related to the book of the same title. David A. Taylor and various speakers. Center for the Book, Books and Beyond Series.
the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection,
The American Memory/American Folklife Center presentation
documents the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA)
migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection
consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications,
and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips supported by
the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center).