Today in History: California Folk Music Project
Qanun solo: performed by Bedros Haroutunian
Today in History–June 15–the Library of Congress features the California Folk Music Project. Visit the Today in History section to grab hold of some fun trivia and learn about the misnice and the qanun—now there’s a great SCRABBLE® word. Then follow the links below to access more primary source collections related to recorded music and the state of California.
Glossary of musical instruments recorded, photographed, or sketched for the California Folk Music Project
Teaching resources for the California Folk Music Project
California Gold story map
Webcast: Sidney Robertson Cowell & the WPA California Folk Music Project, 1938-1940
More Library collections with song recordings
- National Jukebox
- African-American Band Music & Recordings, 1883-1923
- Alan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings
- Amazing Grace
- Ancestral Voices
- Band Music from the Civil War Era
- Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
- Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project
- Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals
- Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal
- Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection
- Colorado Folklife Project Collection
- Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Chant and Hymnody
- Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
- Florida Folklife song recordings from the WPA Collections
- Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande
- Home Sweet Home: Life in Nineteenth-Century Ohio
- Italian Americans in the West
- The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America
- Library of Congress Concerts
- Lowell Folklife Project Collection
- Maine Acadian Cultural Survey Collection
- The March King: John Philip Sousa
- Montana Folklife Survey Collection
- The Gerry Mulligan Collection
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1870 to 1885
- Omaha Indian Music
- Patriotic Melodies
- Pinelands (NJ) Folklife Project
- Ragtime
- Rhode Island Folklife Project
- Samuel Barber
- Songs from the Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection
- Songs from the John & Ruby Lomax collection
- South-Central Georgia Folklife Project
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
- Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
- Traditional Music and Spoken Word
- Transit of Venus March
- Unearthing the Lost Songs of Kohala
- Variety Stage Sound Recordings and Motion Pictures
- Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940 to 1941
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