| a_s1576_01_c77-004 | Annual Masaryktown Day Celebration | Sound | Czechoslovakian Americans
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Dance music
Special events
Music performance
Interviews
Dancers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Annual Masaryktown Day Celebration
- Date
- 1976-10-24
- Description
- One audio cassette. Recording of dances at the Masaryktown Day celebration, including interviews with local residents. Intermittent problems with tape playback.
- Collection
| a_s1576_28_c92-001 | Masaryktown Beseda Dancers at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Crossroads Stage - Festival History) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Oral narratives
Czechoslovakian Americans
Demonstrations
Beseda (Dance)
Dance music
Folk dance
Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Masaryktown Beseda Dancers at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Crossroads Stage - Festival History)
- Date
- 1992-05-22
- Description
- One audio cassette recordings. Sidney Romine, Linda Lovelady, and Sona Hucko narrate discussion of Czech dance costumes and customs; Beseda Dancers from Masaryktown and Moravian Dancers and costumes. The recording index notes that Sidney Romine is the first of three generations to dance at the Florida Folk Festival - she danced in 1953. Because this was the 40th festival, the Crossroads area was partly devoted to performers who contributed to the festival's past and development.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t83-136 | Czechoslavakian singing | Sound | Singers
Fieldwork
Czechoslovakian Americans
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Singing
Interviews
Music performance
Performing arts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Czechoslavakian singing
- Date
- 1980-11-17
- Description
- Two reel to reel recordings. Singing (in Czechoslavakian) and interview with an unidentified resident of Masaryktown. Most of the songs she sang were unidentified.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-224 | WPA field recordings at Tarpon Springs and Slavia (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris) | Sound | Fieldwork
New Deal, 1933-1939
Interviews
Public service employment
Folklorists
Public welfare
United States. Work Projects Administration
Arts, Greek
Greek Americans
A capella singers
Performing arts
A capella singing
Music performance
Singing
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakian Americans
Songs, Greek
Songs, Slavic
Musicians
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
WPA field recordings at Tarpon Springs and Slavia (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris)
- Date
- 1939-08-25
- Description
- One reel to reel. These recordings were created by Morris of the University of Florida, assisted by workers of the Florida Writers Project (including photographer Robert Cook), in 1939 and 1940. He created 14 12-inch acetate records in total. On this recording, Morris visited Tarpon Springs, and the Czechoslovakian community of Slavia, founded in 1911. For more detailed information on the recordings, see S 1579, box 3, for copies of the original LOC indexes. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) – after 1939, the Works Projects Administration – was a work-relief program created in 1935 by the Roosevelt Administration that employed over 8.5 million people between 1935 and 1943. One of its programs was the Federal Writers Project (FWP), which included the Folklore Section. This section conducted fieldwork, recording songs, traditions, and stories across the nation. Originally created to gather material for the American Guide Series, but later emphasis was placed upon fieldwork for preservation of folk traditions for future use. In Florida, the FWP was based out of Jacksonville, and directed by historian Carita Doggett Corse. Folklorist Stetson Kennedy directed the Florida Folklife section. Seven recording expeditions were conducted in Florida. Two were conducted between 1935 and 1937, before the creation of the Florida Folklore Section: one by Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, and the other by John and Ruby Lomax. After 1939, five more were conducted by Florida’s FWP staff: Kennedy, Hurston, Robert Cook, Alton Morris, Corse, Robert Cornwell, John Filareton, and Herbert Halpert (of the Joint Committee on Folk Art’s Southern Recording Expedition.) Recording equipment was loaned to Florida’s WPA program by the Library of Congress’ Archive of the American Folk Song (later the American Folk Center). The field recordings were made on acetate disks, usually recorded at 78 rpm (although occasionally at 33 rpm). Because these disks were shipped from Washington DC to Florida, then to the recording site, and then back to Washington, these disks often were not of the highest sonic quality. Several had surface scratches and many had various recording speeds. In 1986, the FFP staff made copies of many of these recordings onto reel to reels for inclusion to the Florida Folklife Archive. The originals are still housed with the Library of Congress.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-225 | WPA field recordings at Jacksonville, Tarpon Springs, St. Augustine, and Slavia (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris) | Sound | Fieldwork
New Deal, 1933-1939
Interviews
Public service employment
Folklorists
Public welfare
United States. Work Projects Administration
Arts, Greek
Greek Americans
A capella singers
Performing arts
A capella singing
Music performance
Singing
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakian Americans
Songs, Greek
Songs, Slavic
Minorcans
Minorcan Americans
Love songs
Christmas music
Carols
Musicians
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
WPA field recordings at Jacksonville, Tarpon Springs, St. Augustine, and Slavia (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris)
- Date
- 1939-08-26
- Description
- One reel to reel. These recordings were created by Morris of the University of Florida, assisted by workers of the Florida Writers Project (including photographer Robert Cook), in 1939 and 1940. He created 14 12-inch acetate records in total. On this recording, Morris recorded Greek singers in Tarpon Springs and Jacksonville, Minorcans in St. Augustine, and unidentified singers from the Czechoslovakian community of Slavia, founded in 1911. For more detailed information on the recordings, see S 1579, box 3, for copies of the original LOC indexes. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) – after 1939, the Works Projects Administration – was a work-relief program created in 1935 by the Roosevelt Administration that employed over 8.5 million people between 1935 and 1943. One of its programs was the Federal Writers Project (FWP), which included the Folklore Section. This section conducted fieldwork, recording songs, traditions, and stories across the nation. Originally created to gather material for the American Guide Series, but later emphasis was placed upon fieldwork for preservation of folk traditions for future use. In Florida, the FWP was based out of Jacksonville, and directed by historian Carita Doggett Corse. Folklorist Stetson Kennedy directed the Florida Folklife section. Seven recording expeditions were conducted in Florida. Two were conducted between 1935 and 1937, before the creation of the Florida Folklore Section: one by Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, and the other by John and Ruby Lomax. After 1939, five more were conducted by Florida’s FWP staff: Kennedy, Hurston, Robert Cook, Alton Morris, Corse, Robert Cornwell, John Filareton, and Herbert Halpert (of the Joint Committee on Folk Art’s Southern Recording Expedition.) Recording equipment was loaned to Florida’s WPA program by the Library of Congress’ Archive of the American Folk Song (later the American Folk Center). The field recordings were made on acetate disks, usually recorded at 78 rpm (although occasionally at 33 rpm). Because these disks were shipped from Washington DC to Florida, then to the recording site, and then back to Washington, these disks often were not of the highest sonic quality. Several had surface scratches and many had various recording speeds. In 1986, the FFP staff made copies of many of these recordings onto reel to reels for inclusion to the Florida Folklife Archive. The originals are still housed with the Library of Congress.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-251a | WPA field recordings in Masaryktown (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris) | Sound | Fieldwork
New Deal, 1933-1939
Interviews
Public service employment
Folklorists
Public welfare
United States. Work Projects Administration
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakian Americans
A capella singers
Performing arts
A capella singing
Music performance
Singing
Songs, Slavic
Polka music
Dance music
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
WPA field recordings in Masaryktown (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris)
- Date
- 1939-08-27
- Description
- One reel to reel. (These songs appear at the end of the reel. Recordings from another WPA expedition is at the start. These same recordings appear at the start of T86-252, as well.) These recordings were created by Morris of the University of Florida, assisted by workers of the Florida Writers Project (including photographer Robert Cook), in 1939 and 1940. He created 14 12-inch acetate records in total. On this recording, Morris recorded a husband and wife team in Masaryktown. For more detailed information on the recordings, see S 1579, box 3, for copies of the original LOC indexes. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) – after 1939, the Works Projects Administration – was a work-relief program created in 1935 by the Roosevelt Administration that employed over 8.5 million people between 1935 and 1943. One of its programs was the Federal Writers Project (FWP), which included the Folklore Section. This section conducted fieldwork, recording songs, traditions, and stories across the nation. Originally created to gather material for the American Guide Series, but later emphasis was placed upon fieldwork for preservation of folk traditions for future use. In Florida, the FWP was based out of Jacksonville, and directed by historian Carita Doggett Corse. Folklorist Stetson Kennedy directed the Florida Folklife section. Seven recording expeditions were conducted in Florida. Two were conducted between 1935 and 1937, before the creation of the Florida Folklore Section: one by Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, and the other by John and Ruby Lomax. After 1939, five more were conducted by Florida’s FWP staff: Kennedy, Hurston, Robert Cook, Alton Morris, Corse, Robert Cornwell, John Filareton, and Herbert Halpert (of the Joint Committee on Folk Art’s Southern Recording Expedition.) Recording equipment was loaned to Florida’s WPA program by the Library of Congress’ Archive of the American Folk Song (later the American Folk Center). The field recordings were made on acetate disks, usually recorded at 78 rpm (although occasionally at 33 rpm). Because these disks were shipped from Washington DC to Florida, then to the recording site, and then back to Washington, these disks often were not of the highest sonic quality. Several had surface scratches and many had various recording speeds. In 1986, the FFP staff made copies of many of these recordings onto reel to reels for inclusion to the Florida Folklife Archive. The originals are still housed with the Library of Congress.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t92-016 | The Beseda Dancers and The Picalota Strings performing at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage) | Sound | Bands (Music)
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Performances
Music performance
Guitar music
Songs
Guitarists
String bands
Stringband music
String instruments
Storytelling
Bluegrass music
Old time music
Czechoslovakian Americans
Bluegrass musicians
Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s2042_sfm_13 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Folk Festival Highlights (1961) | Sound | Musicians
Accordionists
Singers
Radio
Radio announcing
Radio programs, Public service
Folk festivals
Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Creek Indians
Humor
Jokes
Tall tales
Old time music
Carillons
Bells
Accordion music
Choruses
Fiddle music
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Folk Festival Highlights (1961)
- Date
- 1961
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. (28 minutes). A radio program that offered highlights form the 1961 Florida Folk Festival. Included are music performances by Moore, Psenka, Moon, Wacona School chorus, and the Amigo Male Singers (led by Levy). Also includes jokes by Okeefenokkee Swamp native Griffis, stories by Creek Indian Fred Beaver, Tininkling by the Lariozas, and a performance of I Dream of Jeanie by the carillon tower. These programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
- Collection
| a_s2042_sfm_15 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Four Short Features | Sound | Composer
Curators
Archivists
Musicians
Radio
Radio programs
Radio announcing
Documentaries Radio
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Popular songs
Commercial songs
Composers
Folklore and history
Life histories
Accordion music
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Oral narratives
Storytelling
Tall tales
Humor
Jokes
Personal experience narratives
Oral education
Advertising, Public service
Accordionists
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Four Short Features
- Date
- 1961
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. (15 minutes). Four short radio stories: 1. Open Thy Lattice, Love (3:30) -- story behind Stephen Foster's first published song. 2. Fletcher Hodges, Jr. (3:46)-- story about the curator of Foster Hall at the University of Pittsburgh, and author of a Foster biography. Hodges was a native of Indiana, where he was asked in 1932 to curate the Eli Lilly and Co.'s collection of Foster materials (20,000 items). He moved with the collection to the University of Pittsburgh in 1937. 3. Masaryktown (3:45) -- story of the Czechoslovakian community, with Jerry Psenka's music. 4. Lem Griffis (4:00) -- sampler of Griffis' humorous stories; who was from the Okeefenokee swamp in South Georgia (the headwaters of the Suwannee River). He was a regular performer at the Festival. These programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
- Collection
| a_s2042_sfm_56 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Folk Music | Sound | Singers
Accordionists
Dancers
Radio
Documentaries Radio
Radio programs, Public service
Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Accordion music
Folk singers
Singing
Fiddle music
Performing arts
Fiddling
Czechoslovakian Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Folk Music
- Date
- 1964-03
- Description
- One reel to reel recording (14:00 minutes). Highlights from previous Florida Folk Festvials, held each May at the Stephen Foster Memorial. These programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
- Collection
Listen: The Assorted Selections Program