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Folklife Database: Recording of a service at the Testerina Primitive Baptist Church

Item Type:
Sound
Series Number/Title S1576
Container
Item Audio recording
Item ID Number T81-23; T83-89
Item Title Recording of a service at the Testerina Primitive Baptist Church
Program/Event Florida Record Project: Drop On Down in Florida
Date/Date Range 05/11/1980
Collector/Fieldworker DeVane, Dwight
Dyen, Doris
Tradition Bearer Testerina Primitive Baptist Church Congregation (Tallahassee, Fla.)
Ethnicity/Nationality African American
Genre/Occupation Singers
Title of Work In My Head
Open Up Your Heart
The Lords Prayer
Thank You Lord
Subject Fieldwork
African Americans
Music performance
Performing arts
Singing
Choir singing
Choirs (music)
Churches
Church services
Protestants
Sermons
Preachers
Christianity
Prayer
Church attendance
Gospel music
Gospel (Black)
Religion
Religious music
Place Name Seville (Fla.)
Volusia County (Fla.)
Corporate/Conference Name Florida Folklife Program
Testerina Primitive Baptist Church Congregation (Tallahassee, Fla.)
General Note/Comment Field Two reel to reel recording. These are field recordings from the Florida Record Project. That project, along with work for the North Florida Project, resulted in the two-album recording, Drop On Down in Florida.

An excerpt from the Testerina Primitive Baptist Church service is available on the Sacred Music page.

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