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'A Chance to Harmonize' Tells the Story of the U.S. Music Unit

5/17/2024 • 55 min

A generation of American folk singers – including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Woody Guthrie – owe their inspiration to a little-known New Deal project known as the U.S. Music Unit. Over the course of two years, federal workers recorded amateur musicians at government-owned homesteads as a way to “raise morale, build community, and create hope,” according to music s… Play episode

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