Program

Research Programs: State and Local and Regional Studies

Period of Performance

10/1/1981 - 3/31/1982

Funding Totals

$32,500.00 (approved)
$32,500.00 (awarded)


New Orleans Ethnic Music Research Project

FAIN: RS-*2136-81

Jason F. Berry
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To support a study of a broad sampling of families in New Orleans in which professional musicianship has been passed on from one generation to the next since World War II. The project expands on an earlier study of two musical families in New Orleans.