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Collection ID is exactly "1" AND Ethnicity or Nationality is exactly "Jamaican Americans"
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Bill Butler interview

Bill Butler interview
Date
1977-01-25
Description
One audio cassette. Recorded at Butler's Key West home. Butler discusses the woman who formed the band; the instruments he plays; the kind of music the band plays; playing for funerals and parades; nicknames for people in the band; the origins of the band's name; and discusses his brother and father.
Collection
Bill Butler interview

Bill Butler interview
Caribbean Carnival in Miami

Caribbean Carnival in Miami
Date
1990-02
Description
One proof sheet with 144 black and white images (plus negatives.)
Collection
Caribbean Carnival in Miami

Caribbean Carnival in Miami
Examples of Jamaican embroidery

Examples of Jamaican embroidery
Date
1985-08
Description
Seven color slides. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1985 and 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
Examples of Jamaican embroidery

Examples of Jamaican embroidery
Folklorist Peggy Bulger listening to Lucille Ranger-Brown tell a story at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)

Folklorist Peggy Bulger listening to Lucille Ranger-Brown tell a story at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)
Date
1986-03-22
Description
Two color slides. Sponsored by the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, the festival was held at the Metro-Dade Cultural Center. In 1987, the name of the festival was changed to the Traditions Festival.
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Folklorist Peggy Bulger listening to Lucille Ranger-Brown tell a story at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)

Folklorist Peggy Bulger listening to Lucille Ranger-Brown tell a story at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)
Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 2)

Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 2)
Date
1986-05-23
Description
One reel to reel recordings. C(Copied onto C86-66.) End of Josepg Limone's peformance (see T86-22). Ranger-Brown told several stories, sang "Island in the Sun," and demonstrates various dances. The folklife area in 1986 focused on Miami-Dade, which stemmed from fieldwork work on the 1986 Miami-Dade Folklife Survey, conducted by Lauri Sommers, Tina Bucuvalas, and Nancy Nusz.
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Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 2)

Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 2)
Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 9)

Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 9)
Date
1986-05-23
Description
One reel to reel recordings. (Copied onto C86-73.) Ranger-Brown sings, tells Jamaican, and demonstrates traditional dances tor ecorded music. The folklife area in 1986 focused on Miami-Dade, which stemmed from fieldwork work on the 1986 Miami-Dade Folklife Survey, conducted by Lauri Sommers, Tina Bucuvalas, and Nancy Nusz.
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Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 9)

Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 9)
Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 13)

Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 13)
Date
1999-05-28
Description
One audio cassette tape. Lucille Fuller continues (see C99-74) her story about Nansi and the pot and gives the moral of the story, which is obedience. She also discusses how the term, Nansi, came about.
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Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 13)

Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 13)
Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 1)

Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 1)
Date
2003-05-23
Description
One compact disc. McNeil served as emcee. Frances-Fuller did not use a microphone, so it is hard to hear.
Collection
Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 1)

Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 1)
Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 5)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 5)
Date
1996-05-24
Description
One audio cassette tape. McKenzie served as emcee. Lucille Francis Fuller, of Jamaica, a storyteller, discusses Jamaican topography - rivers, sea and sand. She also refers to storytelling as one of the few entertainments in Jamaica. She tells a story about Nanci and spiders.
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Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 5)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 5)
Jamaica Folklife Project

Jamaica Folklife Project
Date
1990-01-15
Description
Twenty-nine black and white prints. Images of Merri Belland's weaving class in Jamaica and houses and people - - including a steel guitar player, churches, residences, and hotels.
Collection
Jamaica Folklife Project

Jamaica Folklife Project
Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
a_s1576_01_c77-011Bill Butler interviewSoundInterviewing
Interviews
Performers
Performing arts
Oral narratives
Life histories
Jamaican Americans
Parades
African Americans
Bands (Music)
Musicians		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
Caribbean Carnival in MiamiCaribbean Carnival in MiamiStill ImageDancers
Holidays and festivals
Arts, Jamaican
Food
Cooking and dining
Jamaican Americans
Community culture
Community rites
Haitian Americans
African Americans
Food preparation
Dance
Special events
Cooks		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Examples of Jamaican embroideryExamples of Jamaican embroideryStill ImageEmbroiderers
Needleworkers
Fieldwork
Embroidery
Needlework
Jamaican Americans
Decorative arts
Textile arts
Textiles		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Folklorist Peggy Bulger listening to Lucille Ranger-Brown tell a story at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)Folklorist Peggy Bulger listening to Lucille Ranger-Brown tell a story at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)Still ImageFieldwork
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Jamaican Americans
Oral performance
Storytelling
Folklorists
Storytellers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_t86-023Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 2)SoundSingers
Dancers
Storytellers
Musicians
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Workshops (Adult education)
Arts, Jamaican
Jamaican Americans
Music performance
Storytelling
Dance
Demonstrations
Arts, Haitian
Shells
Haitian Americans		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_t86-030Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 9)SoundFestivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Workshops (Adult education)
Arts, Jamaican
Jamaican Americans
Music performance
Storytelling
Dance
Demonstrations
Musical groups
Music Latin America
Salsa (music)
Calypso music
Singers
Dancers
Storytellers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_75_c99-075Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 13)SoundStorytellers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Storytelling
Arts, Jamaican
Jamaican Americans
Animal tales		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s2034_04_cd03-086Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 1)SoundFestivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Storytelling
African Americans
Arts, Jamaican
Jamaican Americans
Oral narratives
Tales
Storytellers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_64_c96-096Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 5)SoundStorytellers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Storytelling
African Americans
Arts, Jamaican
Jamaican Americans
Oral narratives		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
Jamaica Folklife ProjectJamaica Folklife ProjectStill ImageDemonstrations
Decorative arts
African Americans
Material culture
Folklife
Architecture
Workshops (Adult education)
Education
Basket making
Teaching of folklore
Students
Folklorists		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg