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"Civic Music" (1939-1961) includes correspondence, programs, reports, and other materials on Maddy's adult orchestra endeavors, including the wartime civic music program. Its coverage begins with the organizing conference for National Civic Music at the Camp and continues with his directorship of the Ann Arbor Civic Orchestra Association and Michigan Civic Music Association, especially the latter's massed orchestra performances. The Wartime Civic Music materials cover his appearances and broadcasts, his battle with publishers over production of a patriotic songbook for public use, and his solicitation of new musical works with a patriotic theme.