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Blues guitarist Emmett Murray playing in Pahokee

Date: 1980-04-08
Description: One audio cassette. Murray's "Mobile Blues" was featured on the FFP-produced recording "Drop on Down in Florida," a double LP that featured traditional African American music in the state. For another recording with Murray, see reels T83-62 through T83-64, in S 1576.
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Blues guitarist Emmett Murray playing in Pahokee

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Date: 1978
Description: This audiocassette tape was composed of selections from field recordings for the North Florida Folklife Project and the Florida Record Project. Tracks 1-4 were featured on the Florida Folklife Program's compilation of African American musical traditions throughout Florida, Drop on Down in Florida. The tracks by Moses Williams are copied from T78-321, recorded April 22, 1978; tracks by Richard Williams and family are copied from T78-328 & T78-329, recorded May 27, 1978; tracks by Brown & N. L. Williams are copied from T78-326, recorded May 28, 1978; "Trot Along, My Honey" copied from T78-322, recorded April 22, 1978; "Angel Band" copied from T78-350, recorded October 29, 1978; "Wade in the Water" copied from T78-318, recorded April 16, 1978.
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Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Copy of the Drop On Down in Florida album master recordings

Date: 1980-12-03
Description: Three reel to reels. These were copies of the master tapes (see T80-123 and T8-124) for the Florida Folklife Program album, Drop on Down in Florida, a double album comprised of field recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project and those made specifically for this album. The album featured African American musical traditions throughout Florida. For more selections by these artists, see the original field recordings.
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Copy of the Drop On Down in Florida album master recordings

Emmett Murray playing in Belle Glade

Date: 1980-05-10
Description: Six black and white prints. Duplicated in S 1577, Box 17, folder 48.
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Emmett Murray playing in Belle Glade

Fiddle tunes by Horace Fletcher

Date: 1980-03-15
Description: Two reel to reel recordings. Only a few of the songs titles were provided.
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Fiddle tunes by Horace Fletcher

Florida-Alabama Progressive Singing Convention

Date: 1980-05-18
Description: Four proof sheets with 85 black and white images, plus negatives. The convention was founded in 1928, and performs four times a year. Shaped Note singing was an a capella style of church music that utilized shapes to represent notes (fa-so-la-mi) for untrained and even illiterate church members. Only four notes were used in the hymns. An old Anglican practice, English colonists first brought the tradition over to North American in the 1600s. See also S 1577, box 17, folder 114. For a recording, see reels in S1576: T83-82 through T83-85.
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Florida-Alabama Progressive Singing Convention

Ike Ward performing

Date: 1981-01
Description: Black and white print. Duplicated in S 1577, Box 17, folder 117.
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Ike Ward performing

Ike Ward performing in front of shotgun shack

Date: 1981-01
Description: One proof sheet with 22 black and white images, plus negatives.
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Ike Ward performing in front of shotgun shack

Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Emmett Murray

Date: 1980-04-08
Description: Three reel to reel recordings. Murray was born in 1911 in Moultrie, Goergia. He moved to Florida in the 1930s to work the cane fields, but soon moved to other agricultural jobs. He often played songs learned from records in local white clubs and at parties during the 1930s and 1940s. In 1980, he still performed at local social functions. 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.
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Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Emmett Murray

Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Leroy Green

Date: 1980-05-06
Description: Two reel to reel recordings. 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.
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Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Leroy Green

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a_s1576_04_c81-015	Blues guitarist Emmett Murray playing in Pahokee	Sound	Fieldwork Blues (Music) Guitar music African Americans Guitarists Electric guitar Singing Musical tradition, African diaspora Performing arts String instruments Guitarist Blues singers Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_03_c80-001	Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project	Sound	Music -- Performance Field recordings African Americans Blues (Music) Rural blues Diddley bows Gospel music Religious songs Shape note singing A capella singing Sacred Harp, Cooper Revision	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t81-025	Copy of the Drop On Down in Florida album master recordings	Sound	Musicians Singers Guitarist Choruses Music performance Fieldwork African Americans Blues (Music) Blues singers Guitar music Diddly bow Choir singing Choirs (music) Gospel (Black) Gospel songs Religious music Musical tradition, sacred Shape note singing Audiotape recordings	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
Emmett Murray playing in Belle Glade	Emmett Murray playing in Belle Glade	Still Image	Guitarists Guitar music Blues (Music) Performers Performing arts Fieldwork African Americans String instruments Music performance Musical instruments Guitarist Blues singers Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_t83-077	Fiddle tunes by Horace Fletcher	Sound	Fieldwork Fiddling Fiddle music Performing arts Music performance Old time music Dance music String instruments Musicians Fiddlers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
Florida-Alabama Progressive Singing Convention	Florida-Alabama Progressive Singing Convention	Still Image	Music Singers Shape note singing Performing arts Performers A capella singers A capella singing Religious music Shape note singers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Ike Ward performing	Ike Ward performing	Still Image	Blues (Music) African Americans Music Guitar music Guitarists Performers Performing arts Musical instruments String instruments Guitarist Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Ike Ward performing in front of shotgun shack	Ike Ward performing in front of shotgun shack	Still Image	African Americans Guitarists Performers Performing arts Guitar music Musical instruments Singing Guitarist Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_t83-062	Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Emmett Murray	Sound	Fieldwork African Americans Blues (Music) Performing arts Music performance Singing Guitar music Guitarists String instruments Interviews Oral histories Life histories Singers Guitarist Blues singers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t83-070	Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Leroy Green	Sound	Fieldwork African Americans Blues (Music) Interviews Performing arts Music performance Singing Guitar music Guitarists String instruments Life histories Singers Musicians Guitarist	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg

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Blues guitarist Emmett Murray playing in Pahokee

Blues guitarist Emmett Murray playing in Pahokee

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Copy of the Drop On Down in Florida album master recordings

Copy of the Drop On Down in Florida album master recordings

Emmett Murray playing in Belle Glade

Emmett Murray playing in Belle Glade

Fiddle tunes by Horace Fletcher

Fiddle tunes by Horace Fletcher

Florida-Alabama Progressive Singing Convention

Florida-Alabama Progressive Singing Convention

Ike Ward performing

Ike Ward performing

Ike Ward performing in front of shotgun shack

Ike Ward performing in front of shotgun shack

Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Emmett Murray

Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Emmett Murray

Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Leroy Green

Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Leroy Green

State Archives of Florida

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Blues guitarist Emmett Murray playing in Pahokee

Blues guitarist Emmett Murray playing in Pahokee

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Copy of the Drop On Down in Florida album master recordings

Copy of the Drop On Down in Florida album master recordings

Emmett Murray playing in Belle Glade

Emmett Murray playing in Belle Glade

Fiddle tunes by Horace Fletcher

Fiddle tunes by Horace Fletcher

Florida-Alabama Progressive Singing Convention

Florida-Alabama Progressive Singing Convention

Ike Ward performing

Ike Ward performing

Ike Ward performing in front of shotgun shack

Ike Ward performing in front of shotgun shack

Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Emmett Murray

Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Emmett Murray

Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Leroy Green

Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Leroy Green