A conversation with Sheryl Kaskowitz, Alexis Harte and Harvey Smith
Music scholar Sheryl Kaskowitz is author of A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression—One Song at a Time, about the little-known federal Music Unit that collected and archived American folk music during the Great Depression. Musician and producer Alexis Harte has penned Oscar-nominated and Emmy award-winning music and has won Peabody and Annie Awards. He is currently working on a film about the Berkeley Rose Garden and its New Deal roots based on his original song, “Your Rose Garden,” celebrating the New Deal in our backyard. Living New Deal Project Advisor Harvey Smith is author of Berkeley and the New Deal.
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