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Mass unemployment, venues closed, economy in the dump and the stimulus set to run out at the end of July. What's an artist in America to do? On this episode of Money 4 Nothing, a podcast about music and capitalism, we talk to Professor Kenneth Bindas about the Federal Music Project of the 1930s. As part of FDR's New Deal and the Works Progress Administration, the project set out to employ musicians during the Great Depression while offering some affordable entertainment across the country. Seeing similarities between then and today, we discuss this extraordinary time period and imagine what a similar project could look like today.
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Mass unemployment, venues closed, economy in the dump and the stimulus set to run out at the end of July. What's an artist in America to do? On this episode of Money 4 Nothing, a podcast about music and capitalism, we talk to Professor Kenneth Bindas about the Federal Music Project of the 1930s. As part of FDR's New Deal and the Works Progress Administration, the project set out to employ musicians during the Great Depression while offering some affordable entertainment across the country. Seeing similarities between then and today, we discuss this extraordinary time period and imagine what a similar project could look like today.

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