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Shawnee Federal Music Project Dance Band

OHS documents a formal Federal Music Project dance band in Shawnee.

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People and leadership

The reviewed evidence for Shawnee Federal Music Project Dance Band does not identify a director, bandmaster, organizer, or complete leadership succession.

Community and organization

Shawnee Federal Music Project Dance Band is classified as a jazz, dance, territory, commercial, broadcast, or touring ensemble. A branded performing identity is not treated as a municipal or nonprofit charter unless a source says so.

Reading the evidence

The evidence for Shawnee Federal Music Project Dance Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats 1935–1943 program window as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

Questions for further research

For Shawnee Federal Music Project Dance Band: establish exact founding, reorganization, hiatus and ending dates; director succession; membership model; major activities; aliases or successors; and image provenance where not already documented.

Dated evidence in this record
  1. 1935 – 1939

    The OHS Federal Music Project article documents a small Shawnee dance-band project and describes local popularity and vulnerability to federal budget reductions by the late 1930s.

Sources

  1. www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry
  2. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2031508/m2/1/high_res_d/1985-v63-n04_a02.pdf