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Florida
Links
- Florida
Folk Festival
Founded in 1953, the Florida Folk Festival is one of the nation’s oldest
continuing folk festivals. The annual three-day festival, held within
the 888-acre Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park in White
Springs, serves as the cultural crossroads of the Sunshine State with
concerts, folk artist demonstrations, craft workshops, food, games and
dances. This website by the Florida Park Service gives a detailed history
of the festival, images of recent festivals, and schedules for future
events.
- Florida
Folklife Program
The
Florida Folklife Program, a component of the Florida Department of State's
Division of Historical Resources, documents and presents the folklife,
folklore, and folk arts of the state.
- Florida
Folklife from the WPA Collections
The Library of Congress's Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections
web site is a multiformat ethnographic field collection documenting
African-American, Arabic, Bahamian, British-American, Cuban, Greek,
Italian, Minorcan, Seminole, and Slavic cultures throughout Florida.
- Florida's
Writers Project Digital Collection
Jacksonville
University's collection of the papers of Dr. Carita Doggett Corse. Dr.
Corse was the state director of the Florida Federal Writers' project
from 1935 to 1942.
- National
Public Radio: The Sound of 1930s Florida Folk Life
NPR radio story that highlights the Florida WPA folklife recordings
and images housed in the American Folklife Center. Featured in the story
are anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston and Florida folklorist
and writer Stetson Kennedy.
- Stetson
Kennedy
Web page for Florida folklorist and writer Stetson Kennedy. Born and
raised in Jacksonville, Florida, Kennedy worked for the Florida WPA’s
folklife division, where he supervised novelist Zora Neal Hurston. He
later wrote Palmetto Country, Southern Exposure, and South Florida Folklife
(with folklorists Peggy Bulger and Tina Bucuvalas.) His papers from
the WPA can be found in the Florida State Archives’ Florida Folklife
Collection.
- Friends
of Florida Folk
The Friends of Florida Folk serves to identify, protect, preserve, encourage
and promote folk arts, crafts, dance and music. They also advise government
and educational agencies, and other folk-related organizations as well
as educate the public in folk culture by encouraging, publicizing, sponsoring
and producing newsletters, films, tapes, records, festivals, and other
events.
Society
and Council Links
Florida
Regional Links
- Historical
Museum of Southern Florida
Documents South Florida’s cultural diversity and examines the traditional
arts people have brought with them to South Florida.
- UCF
Florida Heritage Alliance
The Heritage Alliance seeks new and meaningful ways to bring the Central
Florida community together by celebrating the region's rich diversity
through education, technology-based heritage projects, folklife research,
preservation and network-building.
Southern
United States Links
- Alabama
Center for Traditional Culture
The Alabama Center for Traditional Culture, a division of the Alabama
State Council on the Arts, was created in 1990, and is dedicated to
the research, documentation and preservation of the state's folk cultures.
Their webpage features a selection of music clips and essays regarding
Alabama’s rich folklife heritage.
- Crossroads
of the Heart
Music, handmade objects, maritime traditions, quilting and and narrative
genres from Mississippi are represented.
- Folklife
in Louisiana
The Louisiana Folklife Program, within the Division of the Arts, is
designed to identify, document, conserve, and present the folk cultural
resources of Louisiana.
- South
Georgia Folklife Project
South Georgia Folklife Project is a collaboration between the College
of the Arts at Valdosta State University and the Georgia Council for
the Arts Folklife Program to identify, document, encourage, and present
through public programs, the traditional arts and folklife of South
Georgia.
- Southern
Arts Federation
The Southern Arts Federation (SAF) is a not-for-profit regional arts
organization that has been making a positive difference in the arts
throughout the South since 1975. SAF creates partnerships and collaborations;
assists in the professional development of artists, arts organizations
and arts professionals; presents, promotes and produces Southern arts
and cultural programming; and advocates for the arts and art education.
- Southern
Folklife Collection
The Southern Folklife Collection (SFC) ranks as one of the nation's
foremost archival resources for the study of American folk music and
popular culture. Housed at the University of North Carolina in Chapel
Hill, SFC holdings extensively document all forms of southern musical
and oral traditions across the entire spectrum of individual and community
expressive arts, as well as mainstream media production. The web site
contains finding aids, collection descriptions, and samples from their
vast holdings.
- Mississippi
Arts Commission
The Mississippi Arts Commission promotes and fosters Mississippi artists
and folk culture through public programs, publications, and grants.
- The
Center for Southern Folklore
The Center is a non-profit organization that showcases and celebrates
the wonders, lifestyles, people, history, and cultures of the South.
- Southern
Foodways Alliance
The mission of the SFA is to celebrate, preserve, promote, and nurture
the traditional and developing diverse food cultures of the American
South.
- Alabama
Folklife Association
A statewide non-profit organization created to promote knowledge and
appreciation of Alabama folklife through activities such as festivals,
conferences, fieldwork, videos, recordings and publications.
- University
of South Carolina Folklife Resource Center
Created in 1985 as a repository for fieldnotes, photographs, slides,
audio tapes, video tapes, albums, publications, and other information
of value to Southern folklife scholars and interested members of the
general public.
- North
Carolina Folklore Society
Founded in 1913, the North Carolina Folklore Society promotes the appreciation
and study of North Carolina's folklife. Through its annual meeting,
programs, awards, and publications, the North Carolina Folklore Society
encourages the study and preservation of local folklife and provides
a state folklife information center and resources center.
- Georgia
Folklife Program
The state folklife program for Georgia, which is a division of the Georgia
Council for the Arts.
National
Links
- American
Folklife Center (Library of Congress)
The American Folklife Center aims to be the national center for folklife
documentation and research, and this Web site offers a virtual destination
for those who cannot visit the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
On this Web site you will find not only an introduction to the activities
of the American Folklife Center and its Archive of Folk Culture but
also online presentations of multi-format collections, and other resources
to facilitate folklife projects and study.
- The
American Folklore Society
The American Folklore Society (AFS) is an association of people who
create and communicate knowledge about folklore throughout the world.
Founded in 1888, and with more than 2,200, the AFS publishes the Journal
of American Folklore, holds an annual meeting of American folklorists,
and takes a leading role in national and international folklore projects.
- Smithsonian
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is a research institute
of the Smithsonian that promotes the understanding and continuity of
diverse contemporary grassroots cultures in the United States and abroad.
The Center produces the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian
Folkways recordings, museum and traveling exhibitions, documentary films,
as well as maintains an extensive folklife archive.
- The
Folk Alliance
The North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance exists to foster and
promote traditional, contemporary, and multicultural folk music and
dance, and related performing arts in North America. The Folk Alliance
seeks to strengthen and advance organizational and individual initiatives
in folk music and dance through education, networking, advocacy, and
professional and field development.
- National
Council for the Traditional Arts
The National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) is a private, not-for-profit
corporation dedicated to the preservation and documentation of traditional
arts in the United States. Founded in 1933, NCTA is the nation's oldest
presenting organization that deals with folk, ethnic and tribal arts.
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