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Berkeley Author Sheryl Kaskowitz Launches Her New Book "A Chance To Harmonize"
Join us at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore on Wednesday, April 3rd at 7:00 PM when Berkeley author SHERYL KASKOWITZ comes to the store to launch her new book "A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression--One Song at a Time". Sheryl will sign copies of her book after the presentation. It's the remarkable story of a hidden New Deal program that tried to change America and end the Great Depression using folk music, laying the groundwork for the folk revival and having a lasting impact on American culture.
Award-winning author and Harvard-trained American music scholar Sheryl Kaskowitz has had the unique opportunity to listen to the music unit’s entire collection of recordings and examine a trove of archival materials, some of which have never been made available to the public.
"A Chance To Harmonize" reveals this untold story and will delight readers with the revelation of a new and previously undiscovered chapter in American cultural history.
SHERYL KASKOWITZ PHD, is the author of "God Bless America: The Surprising History of an Iconic Song", which won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Book Award for music writing. Her articles have been published in the New York Times, Slate, Bloomberg News, and other outlets. Kaskowitz earned her PhD in music with an ethnomusicology focus from Harvard in 2011 and completed her BA in music at Oberlin. She has served as a lecturer at Brandeis University and Brown University and lives with her family in Berkeley, California.
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