a_s1685_05_tape03 | Elbita Crosby interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Leatherworking Field recordings Salvadoran Americans Crocheting Manufacturing processes Leather | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1685_06_tape05 | Gene & John Larison demonstration for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Field recordings Auction chants Auctions Auction house Speech play Selling Oratory Auctioneers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1685_06_tape04 | Gene Larison interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Field recordings Auction chants Auctions Interviews Oral narratives Selling Oratory Auctioneers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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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a_s1685_05_tape12 | Interview with rap group Kan-Dee-Krew | Sound | Fieldwork 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 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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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a_s1685_05_tape21 | James Hancock talking with students for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | sound | Storytellers Children Students Field recordings Interviews Oral histories Seminole Indians Native Americans Ball games Storytelling Tales Oral narratives | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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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a_s1685_05_tape13 | Rap group Kan-Dee-Krew at Pahokee Elementary School | Sound | Singers 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 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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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a_s1685_05_tape20 | Seminole storyteller James Hancock | Sound | Fieldwork Tales Legends Oral narratives Narratives Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Native Americans Storytelling Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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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a_s1685_05_tape24 | Vic Hall & William Syralia performance at the Finnish Hall Dance for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Fiddle tunes Field recordings Music--Performance Folk music Finnish Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1685_05_tape34 | Washboard Bill Cooke interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Singers 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 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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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a_s1685_05_tape27 | Washboard Bill Cooke interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Singing Storytelling Field recordings Interviews African Americans Oral narratives Juke joints Music industry Music composition Washboards (musical instruments) Chordophones Ukuleles Rural blues Blues (music) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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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