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Shawnee Federal Music Project Dance Band

Also documented as: WPA Shawnee Dance Band

Shawnee1935–1943 program windowFederal relief-program dance band
Documented history with gaps
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Documented overview

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

Documented history with gaps. The record supports a public history, with important limitations stated on the page.

History

Identity and chronology

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

Leadership

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

Sponsorship and participation

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.

Professional relief-program ensemble.

Activity

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

Why this band matters

Documents New Deal music employment and public dance-band activity in central Oklahoma.

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

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

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

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.

What remains unknown

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.

Evidence

Sources

2 of 2 listed live source links resolved during the September 3, 2026 audit.

  1. Oklahoma Historical Society referencehttps://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=FE003

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