| a_s1576_t85-145 | Interview with Santeria priest Ernesto Pichardo | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviewing
Interviews
Santeria
Beliefs and cultures
Religion
Alternative medicine
Cuban Americans
Latinos
Life histories
Oral histories
Priests | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Santeria priest Ernesto Pichardo
- Date
- 1985-08-15
- Description
- Two reel to reel tapes. Interview with Pichardo about Santeria. He discusses Santeria dancing, medicine, food, and philosophy; origins of Santeria; Santeria under Batista, Castro, and in Miami; African origins; apprenticeships; and present customs. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahaman, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
| a_s1640_22_tape07 | Irene and Emelia Fernandez interview at the Florida Folk Festival | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Dance
Performing arts
Arts, Cuban
Cuban Americans
Latinos
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Comparsa tradition
Conga (dance)
Oral history
Family history
Costumes
Clothing and dress
Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Irene and Emelia Fernandez interview at the Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1991-05-25
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Emelia Fernandez and her daughter Irene discusses their lives and the comparsas tradition. Fernandez founded a comparsas dance troupe in Key West. Danny Acosta led the band that accompanied the dances. The Cuban dance has African roots, and is usually performed in long conga lines. Dancers dress in elaborate, ruffled outfits. The tradition began in Key West in 1938. Emelia herself arrived in Florida in 1959. She and her daughter Irene revived the dance tradition in the early 1990s. For images of their performance, see S 1577, v. 60, slides S92-557 - S92-567. 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 2004.
- Collection
| a_s1576_22_c86-177 | Manuel Fraguela interview | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Luthiers
Guitar makers
Chordophones
Musical instruments
Artisans
Woodworkers
Cuban Americans
Hispanic Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Manuel Fraguela interview
- Date
- 1984-07-29
- Description
- One audio cassette. Fraguela was a guitar maker (luthier) from Cuba. By the time of the interview, Fraguela owned a guitar shop and taught classical guitar at Florida Junior College (now Florida Community College of Jacksonville). In the interview, he discusses life in Cuba; moving to the US in 1962; education in Havana (studied architecture); learning the luthier trade by observation; describes his first guitar; types of guitars he made: flaminco, classical guitar, and electric guitars; other woodwork: chess boards, violins, dulcimers, cabinets; history of the guitar; teaching guitar playing; and his philosophy of teaching. NOTE: According the original interview release, Fraguela stressed the interview could only be used for educational/academic purposes. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. 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, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t81-070 | Marta Keen interview | Sound | Field recordings
Arts, Cuban
Cuban Americans
Emigration and immigration
Christmas
Family history
Oral histories
Interviews
Latinos
Life histories
Holidays and festivals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Marta Keen interview
- Date
- 1981-08-15
- Description
- Three reel to reels. T81-70: Marta Keen, a relative of Camillo Nuñez, fled to the United States from Cuba in 1962 when she was 15 years old. She discusses how her parents sent her to America as a youth as Communism spread through Cuba; her experiences when she first arrived in Florida; the diminishment of religion in Cuba; Santeria; Camillo Nuñez's fair-skinned mother; and quince parties in the U.S. T81-71: Keen discusses Cubans' and her own reaction to Cubans who came to America on the Mariel boatlift in the 1980s; family togetherness; her religious faith and the religious faith she'd like for her children; Cuban lullabies and songs; Christmas and Christmas Eve in Cuba; and Cuban music. T81-72: Keen and Nuñez discuss their relatives' educational and professional backgrounds; their attitudes towards Haitian immigrants; painting; and acquiring American traditions while retaining their native Cuban culture as well. Copied onto C81-41, C81-42 & C81-43.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-142 | Pro Teatro Cubano interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey | Sound | Fieldwork
Sound recordings
Blackface entertainers
Performing arts
Theatrical makeup
Theater
Comedy
Entertainment
Interviewing
Interviews
Oral histories
Actors
Entertainers
Performers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Pro Teatro Cubano interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey
- Date
- 1985-07-28
- Description
- One reel to reel.Songs by performers with Miami's Pro Teatro Cubano which present bufo theater productions (Cuban vaudeville/satirical comedies). Bufo theater was often performed in Havana before Fidel Castro came to power. Fecundo was the theater's composer, and a musician. For images Pro Teatro Cubano, see S1577, v. 43, S87-1015 - S87-1036. For an interview with Juan Landa, another performer, see S 1576, reel T86-141. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t80-042 | Raphael Martinez interview for the Cuban-Americans Slide and Tape Project | Sound | Fieldwork
Oral histories
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Cigar industry
Cuban Americans
Latinos
Cigar making
Emigration and immigration
Occupational groups
Factories
Labor
Tobacco
Workplace
Gender roles
Cigar makers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Raphael Martinez interview for the Cuban-Americans Slide and Tape Project
- Date
- 1980-04-02
- Description
- Three reel to reels. The interview is in Spanish, with Hernandez translating. Reel T80-43 has the original interview in Spanish. Reel T80-42 has an English translation. Reel T80-43b is a duplicate of T80-43. Martinez discusses emigrating from Cuba to Florida in 1962; making cigars; cigar factories in South Florida; the cigar making process; lectors (people who read out loud while workers rolled cigars); gender roles in the business; and the differences in Tampa and Miami cigars. Excerpts from the interview can be found on T80-94. Interview conducted for a slide/tape program on Cuban-Americans, a copy of which can be found on T80-95.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-074 | Raúl "Macuye" Duanes interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey | Sound | Field recordings
Music performance
Latinos
Cuban Americans
Musical groups
Performers
Performing arts
Arts, Cuban
Drummers (Musicians)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Raúl "Macuye" Duanes interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey
- Date
- 1985-08-03
- Description
- One reel to reel tape. (Copied onto cassette C86-116.) Raul Duanes was from Cuba and was a trained drummer who played with many bands. Pianist and composer Fecundo Rivera took him as a protege. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t81-073 | Salsa Express interview for Cuban-Americans Slide and Tape Project | Sound | Fieldwork
Arts, Cuban
Cuban Americans
Interviews
Singing
Music Latin America
Latinos
Music business
Singers
Bands (Music)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Salsa Express interview for Cuban-Americans Slide and Tape Project
- Date
- 1986-08-14
- Description
- Three reel to reels. T81-73: Morrison and Menendez, members of the band Salsa Express, discuss the ethnic makeup of their band (a mixture of Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Anglo American); the types of Salsa music they play; the structure of Salsa music; jazz influences in Salsa music; instruments they use in the band; improvisation in the music style; conga dancing and Mardi Gras festivals; and Santeria culture and music. T81-74: Morrison and Menendez continue their discussion on music. They talk about the different types of music they play; the rhythms and instruments they use; dance music played at Quince parties; an extraordinary Quince party Menendez once attended; comparsa, or street, dancing; disco music; cloved-dancing; the Latin traditions they have maintained and to what degree they have evolved; and playing conservative styles of music. T81-75: Morrison and Menendez discuss a Cuban band in Washington D.C. called the Kubata that plays rhumba music and talk about the difference between rhumba and salsa music. Menendez also discusses his life in Castro's Cuba as a youth and his immigration to the U.S. in October 1970; New Years Eve and Fiesta de Quince traditions; dominoes; gambling; and the changes that have occurred in Cuba since Communism. Copied onto C81-44, C81-45 & C81-46.
- Collection
| a_s1576_45_d95-042 | Saturday performances at the 1995 Florida Folk Festival (Sesquicentennial Area Stage ) (Tape 2) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Filipino Americans
Arts, Asian
Asian Americans
String bands
Stringband music
Choir singing
Choirs (music)
Arts, Cuban
Rumba (Dance)
Latinos
Dance music
Cuban Americans
Spanish language
Singers
Musicians
Dancers
Choruses
Bands (Music) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_44_d95-041 | Saturday performances at the 1995 Florida Folk Festival (Sesquicentennial Area Stage) (Tape 1) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
A capella singers
A capella singing
Gospel (Black)
African Americans
Gospel songs
Gospel music
Religious music
Religious songs
Spirituals (Songs)
Latinos
Arts, Cuban
Cuban Americans
Pipe (Musical instrument)
Pipe music
Bluegrass music
Old time music
String bands
Stringband music
Singers
Musicians
Bluegrass musicians
Dancers
Bands (Music) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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