# Sidney Robertson, Folk Music Collecting and FDR’s New Deal

The authors of two new books — Sheryl Kaskowitz, “A Chance to Harmonize” and Catherine Hiebert Kerst, “California Gold” — return to the Library of Congress to discuss the remarkable New Deal folk song collecting career of Sidney Robertson, whose recordings are held in the American Folklife Center.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- By: Library Of Congress
- Genres: Music
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024742260/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2024742260?play=1)