Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

7/1/1971 - 12/31/1973

Funding Totals

$9,718.00 (approved)
$9,718.00 (awarded)


Historical Study of the Development and Emergence of Black Folk Music in the U.S.

FAIN: RO-11381-71

Unaffiliated independent scholar
Dena J. Epstein (Project Director: July 1971 to present)

To document, from diaries, letters, travel accounts, and other historical sources, the development of Black folk music in America to 1861.