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Collection ID is exactly "1" AND Event Name is exactly "Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project"
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Elbita Crosby interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Elbita Crosby interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Date
1986-10-08
Description
One audio cassette. Crosby made belts, hats, wallets, etc. She discusses treating leather; learning the craft; choosing designs; types of materials created for her home; burning leather; El Salvador versus Mexican styles; and crocheting.
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Gene & John Larison demonstration for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Gene & John Larison demonstration for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Date
1987-08-28
Description
One audio cassette.
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Gene Larison interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Gene Larison interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Date
1987-08-21
Description
One audio cassette. Larison discusses the rhythm of auctioning; its use in selling and livening the crowds; learning the skill; apprenticeships; the lack of women auctioneers; the bidding process; the social nature of auctions; his influences; and his sons involvement in auctions. He also gives an example of an auctioneer calling.
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Interview with rap group Kan-Dee-Krew

Interview with rap group Kan-Dee-Krew

Date
1986-09-06
Description
Two audio recordings. Interview with the rap group Kan-Dee-Krew, which rapped about drug abuse. It consisted of six members: Duane and Rodney Rumph, Coffie, Harden, Plummer, and Thomas. They discuss rapping; writing rap songs; practicing; fitting the beat with the rhyme; rapping topics; naming the group; performance nicknames; gangs; and drug use prevention. They also perform four rap songs. Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
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James Hancock talking with students for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

James Hancock talking with students for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Date
1986-02-12
Description
Seminole storyteller Hancock describes how he learned stories from several Seminole elders, including Billy Bowlegs III, even though he spent little time on reservations as his father worked for the US Corps of Engineers. Students ask Hancock extensively about Seminole life and the tribe's leadership, hunting, games, clans, religion, holidays, and chickees. Afterwards, he tells origin stories, including "How the Sun Came to Be," "How the Stars Came to Be," and "How the Mosquitos Came to Be."
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Rap group Kan-Dee-Krew at Pahokee Elementary School

Rap group Kan-Dee-Krew at Pahokee Elementary School

Date
1987-02-19
Description
Two audio recordings. Presentation by the rap group Kan-Dee-Krew, which rapped about drug abuse. It consisted of six members: Duane and Rodney Rumph, Coffie, Harden, Plummer, and Thomas. They performed several rap songs and answer student questions about rapping, songwriting, performing, and drug abuse. Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
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Seminole storyteller James Hancock

Seminole storyteller James Hancock

Date
1986-08-24
Description
One audio cassette. Three stories by Hancock. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
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Washboard Bill Cooke interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Washboard Bill Cooke interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Date
1987-08-18
Description
One audio cassette. Recorded at his home. Cooke discusses black entertainment in Florida. Born in Dupont, just south of St. Augustine, on 4 July, Cooke worked as a street performer, a jook joint musician, a nightclub entertainer, and a railway worker. His mother ran a jook joint, where he was first exposed to music and dance. In the interviews, he discusses jook joints; Florida minstrel acts such as Florida Blossom, Rabbit Foot, and Silas Green; black vaudeville in Florida; Ringling Brothers circus; segregation in theaters and entertainment; blackface; national entertainers he knew such as Amos and Andy, Step'n Fetchit, and Al Jolson; racism in advertising; and Pullman Porters he knew. In 1956, he made a recording with Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry called Washboard Country Band. In 1992, he won the Florida Folk Heritage Award. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
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Washboard Bill Cooke interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Washboard Bill Cooke interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Date
1987-07-30
Description
One audio cassette. Recorded at his home. Born in Dupont, just south of St. Augustine, on 4 July. His mother ran a jook joint, where he was first exposed to music and dance. He hoboed, played street music, worked for railways, and played at nightclubs in South Florida. In the interviews, he discusses jook joints; writing songs; working in New York; playing the washboard and the ukulele; and plays various songs, some wellknown, others his own compositions. This interview was an exploratory interview for the Florida Folk Festival, and was expanded by Jan Rosenberg the following month. The tape speed is a little fast, noticeable in the higher pitch of their voices approximately half way through the tape. Side two is blank. In 1956, he made a recording with Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry called Washboard Country Band. In 1992, he won the Florida Folk Heritage Award. 
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Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
a_s1685_05_tape03Elbita Crosby interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education ProjectSoundLeatherworking
Field recordings
Salvadoran Americans
Crocheting
Manufacturing processes
Leather
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a_s1685_06_tape05Gene & John Larison demonstration for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education ProjectSoundField recordings
Auction chants
Auctions
Auction house
Speech play
Selling
Oratory
Auctioneers
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a_s1685_06_tape04Gene Larison interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education ProjectSoundField recordings
Auction chants
Auctions
Interviews
Oral narratives
Selling
Oratory
Auctioneers
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a_s1685_05_tape12Interview with rap group Kan-Dee-KrewSoundFieldwork
Interviews
Sound recordings
Life histories
Oral histories
African Americans
Music performance
Performing arts
Rap songs
Repartee
Rapping
Hip hop songs
Hip hop music
Rap music
Speech play
Composers
Singers
Composer
Rap musicians
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a_s1685_05_tape21James Hancock talking with students for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education ProjectsoundStorytellers
Children
Students
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral histories
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Ball games
Storytelling
Tales
Oral narratives
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a_s1685_05_tape13Rap group Kan-Dee-Krew at Pahokee Elementary SchoolSoundSingers
Composer
Fieldwork
Teaching of folklore
Sound recordings
Elementary schools
Students
African Americans
Music performance
Performing arts
Rap songs
Repartee
Rapping
Hip hop songs
Hip hop music
Rap music
Speech play
Composers
Education
Teenagers
Rap musicians
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a_s1685_05_tape20Seminole storyteller James HancockSoundFieldwork
Tales
Legends
Oral narratives
Narratives
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Storytelling
Storytellers
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a_s1685_05_tape24Vic Hall & William Syralia performance at the Finnish Hall Dance for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education ProjectSoundFiddle tunes
Field recordings
Music--Performance
Folk music
Finnish Americans
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a_s1685_05_tape34Washboard Bill Cooke interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education ProjectSoundSingers
Storytellers
Fieldwork
Interviews
African Americans
Sound recordings
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Juke joints
Music business
Storytelling
Music performance
Minstrel shows
Trains
Jokes
Blackface entertainers
Entertainers
Florida history
Occupational groups
Television
Theater
Theatrical makeup
Racism
Racial segregation
Advertising
African Americans Segregation
Motion picture theaters
Vaudeville
Musicians
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a_s1685_05_tape27Washboard Bill Cooke interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education ProjectSoundSinging
Storytelling
Field recordings
Interviews
African Americans
Oral narratives
Juke joints
Music industry
Music composition
Washboards (musical instruments)
Chordophones
Ukuleles
Rural blues
Blues (music)
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