| a_s1714_reel23 | Blues musician Buck Thompson playing on his porch | Sound | Fieldwork
Research methods
Collecting
Sound recording
String instruments
Blues (Music)
African Americans
Musical tradition, African diaspora
Guitarists
Guitar
Guitar music
Music performance
Music
Guitarist
Musicians
Blues singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Blues musician Buck Thompson playing on his porch
- Date
- 1985-02-14
- Description
- Two reel to reel tapes. Sound recording of fifty-year old blues guitarist Buck Thompson playing tunes that he learned from the radio on his front porch. A former railroad worker, he played the juke circuit in the 1950s. Because of the recording location, sounds of traffic and pedestrians can be heard. Images of the performance can be found in S 1577, v. 27, slides 1467-1495. In winter 1985, the Bureau contracted with two folklorists to conduct a folk arts survey of the St. Johns River basin in northeastern Florida. The St. Johns River is the largest and most used river in Florida, supporting much river commerce as well as a modest amount of commercial fishing. Folklorists Mary Anne McDonald and Kathleen Figgen conducted the survey from January through March 1985 under the direction of Folklife Coordinator Blanton Owen and Bureau Chief Ormond Loomis. Documentation compiled in the survey was used to prepare and present the St. Johns River Basin Folklife Area at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| a_s1640_20_tape06 | David Parker Bennett interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
Folklore
Research, theory, and methodology
Fiddles
String instruments
Folk musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
David Parker Bennett interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program
- Date
- 1985-02-21
- Description
- One audio cassette. Bennett was a fiddler and folklorist. He wrote his Master's thesis at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) in 1940: A Study in Fiddle Tunes From Western North Carolina. In the interview, Bennett discusses his research, fellow bluegrass and old-time musicians, and recording various musicians.
- Collection
| a_s1714_04_tape38 | Fred Perry playing his fiddle | Sound | Fieldwork
Sound recording
Research methods
Fiddle music
Fiddling
Fiddles
String instruments
Musical instruments
Bluegrass music
Old time music
Musicians
Bluegrass musicians
Fiddlers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Fred Perry playing his fiddle
- Date
- 1985-02-13
- Description
- One audio cassette. Recording of well-known fiddler Fred Perry playing his repertoire of old fiddle tunes. He is joined by Doug and Frank Trivette. Perry has played in the St. Johns region for over fifty years, including with bluegrass great Ralph Stanley. Also on the tape is Fred's wife Ruby. For images of the performance, see slides S85-1496 - S85-1498 in S 1577, V. 27. In winter 1985, the Bureau contracted with two folklorists to conduct a folk arts survey of the St. Johns River basin in northeastern Florida. The St. Johns River is the largest and most used river in Florida, supporting much river commerce as well as a modest amount of commercial fishing. Folklorists Mary Anne McDonald and Kathleen Figgen conducted the survey from January through March 1985 under the direction of Folklife Coordinator Blanton Owen and Bureau Chief Ormond Loomis. Documentation compiled in the survey was used to prepare and present the St. Johns River Basin Folklife Area at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t84-134 | Interview with and performance by hammer dulcimer player Johnny Boyd | Sound | Fieldwork
Oral histories
Interviews
Music performance
Performing arts
String instruments
Dulcimer music
Hammer dulcimer
Old time music
Gospel music
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t84-127 | Interview with Ethel Santiago on Seminole cooking and food | Sound | Fieldwork
Documentary videos
Interviews
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Indian reservations
Native Americans
Food preparation
Cooking and dining
Demonstrations
Seminole cookery
Corn
Bread
Fireplaces
Fire
Religious rites
Cypress
Oak
Pots
Storytelling
Clans
Cookware
Cookery (Corn)
Boiling (Cookery)
Beliefs and cultures
Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Ethel Santiago on Seminole cooking and food
- Date
- 1984
- Description
- Three reel to reels. Santiago discuss and demonstrates Seminole cooking. She discusses fry bread, sofkee, clan systems, proper creation and maintenance of log fireplaces (use cypress and oak), boiling, proper welcoming of guests, role of men and women and children in food preparation, cooking training, use of corn, cooking in different weather, use of fire, and stories/beliefs connected with cooking. The Seminole Video Project was a joint project between the Florida Folklife Program and WFSU-TV. Completed in Spring 1984, and financed by a Florida Endowment for the Humanities grant with the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the project culminated in a thirty-minute documentary entitled "Four Corners of the Earth" which profiled Ethel Santiago, a Seminole craftswoman and Tribal representative. The program addressed such issues as cultural retention within contemporary society; the role of women in Seminole society; traditional Seminole foods, arts, and medicine; and the changing emphasis on clan affiliations. The project covered Seminoles on the Big Cypress and Hollywood Reservations and at Immokalee, Florida. Raw video footage, along with the finished product, can be found in S 1615, V84-16 through V-84-24. Images from the project can be found in S 1577, v. 23, slides S83-2994 - S83-3020.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t84-130 | Interview with Ethel Santiago on Seminole healing and stories | Sound | Healer
Storytellers
Fieldwork
Documentary videos
Interviews
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Indian reservations
Native Americans
Alternative medicine
Medicine & culture
Demonstrations
Natural medicine
Healers
Herbs
Flora
Plants
Fire
Religious rites
Beliefs and cultures
Animal tales
Trickster tales
Storytelling
Fables | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Ethel Santiago on Seminole healing and stories
- Date
- 1984
- Description
- Four reel to reels. Santiago discusses healing, medicine, gathering herbs, types of medicinal herbs used, healing training, gender roles, proper bahvior for Seminole women, trickster stories (rabbit stories), fire origin stories, the Green Corn Dance, and uses of fire. The Seminole Video Project was a joint project between the Florida Folklife Program and WFSU-TV. Completed in Spring 1984, and financed by a Florida Endowment for the Humanities grant with the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the project culminated in a thirty-minute documentary entitled "Four Corners of the Earth" which profiled Ethel Santiago, a Seminole craftswoman and Tribal representative. The program addressed such issues as cultural retention within contemporary society; the role of women in Seminole society; traditional Seminole foods, arts, and medicine; and the changing emphasis on clan affiliations. The project covered Seminoles on the Big Cypress and Hollywood Reservations and at Immokalee, Florida. Raw video footage, along with the finished product, can be found in S 1615, V84-16 through V-84-24. Images from the project can be found in S 1577, v. 23, slides S83-2994 - S83-3020.
- Collection
| a_s1576_11_c83-138 | Interview with musicians Troy and Lucy Lovelace | Sound | Singers
Musicians
Pianists
Fieldwork
Interviews
Bluegrass musicians
Performing arts
Fiddling
Old time music
Pianos
Life histories
Oral histories
Fiddlers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with musicians Troy and Lucy Lovelace
- Date
- 1983-11-11
- Description
- One audio cassette. Troy and Lucy Lovelace discuss their history; Troy's early years in North Carolina learning to play on a fiddle made from a cigar box; major influences on his playing; an opportunity to play in Nashville which he turned down; meeting Lucy; Lucy's musical ability; places they've played in Florida; relationship with Florida folk musicians such as Gayle and Dwight Rodgers, Clyde Davis, and Alexa Jaffers; differences between bluegrass and folk music as they play it; how they settled in Florida. Before the end of the interview, the couple also plays music.
- Collection
| a_s1576_12_c84-005 | Margaret Cypress interview | Sound | Basket making
Dolls (toys)
Field recordings
Oral narratives
Interviews
Weaving
Seminole Indians
Tribal lands
Palmetto | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Margaret Cypress interview
- Date
- 1984-01-24
- Description
- One audio cassette. Cypress, a Seminole craftswoman, describes her early childhood in Florida, and at the Cherokee and Oklahoma Boarding Schools for Indians; speaking Miccosukee and learning English; early experiences with Seminole crafts such as sweetgrass basketry; learning crafts throught the apprenticeship program; marriage; working in the fields; differences between her mother's basketry and that which is done in the program; pay for her work; her family; crafts she works on such as basketry and dolls; customers for Seminole crafts from the Arts and Crafts Chickee at Immokalee Reservation; difficulty of making palmetto baskets; types of transportation she and her family used when she was young (i.e. "Everglades Bag, Everglades Suitcase", hitching train rides, airplane rides to school in Oklahoma); more on her family including her cousin Ethel, also a craftswoman; more on school and life as a young woman; her work for the Seminole Tribe Community Health Representative.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t87-001 | Nikitas Tsimouris demonstrating the tsampouna | Sound | Field recordings
Music -- Performance
Folk music
Greek Americans
Double chanter bagpipes
Reed instruments | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_11_c84-002 | Pharaoh Baker and Ellis Wright interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program | Sound | Painters
Sculptors
Fieldwork
African Americans
Apprentices
Interviews
Life histories
Oral histories
Teaching of folklore
Painting
Art
Sculpture
Artists studios
Artists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Pharaoh Baker and Ellis Wright interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program
- Date
- 1984-01-12
- Description
- One audio cassette. Baker served as a master artist to apprentice Wright in the 1984-1985 apprenticeship program. In the interview, they discuss learning painting; where they paint; subjects and inspirations; influences (Picasso, Van Gogh, El Greco); sculpture; African American culture; the goals of an artist; various mediums; and art perspectives. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
- Collection
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