| Mary Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | Mary Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | sound | Dollmakers
Field recordings
Oral histories
Interviews
Oral narratives
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Dollmaking
Miccosukee Indians
Crafts
Mikasuki language | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Mary Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project
- Date
- 1980-05-10
- Description
- Two reel-to-reel tapes. T80-47 has been spliced with T80-48. Billie discusses the history of Seminole dollmaking; marketing the dolls to tourists; learning the craft from her grandmother; patchwork; sweetgrass baskets; and other crafts sold to tourists. Her daughter, Claudia John, interprets from the Mikasuki language.
- Collection
| a_s1576_07_c81-81 | Medicine show performer Bunny Bartok interview | Sound | Field recordings
Medicine shows
Interviews
Oral narratives
Carnival pitching
Hungarian Americans
Performing arts
Traveling shows
Magic tricks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Medicine show performer Bunny Bartok interview
- Date
- 1981-10-04
- Description
- Bartok's father and grandfather were traveling medicine pitchmen. She described traveling medicine shows; types of pitches and performances in medicine; wintering in Florida; her family history including their emigration from Hungary. Some material from the interview was used for the public radio program Florida Home: Humorists and Health Evangelists. Copies of the radio programs can be found on audio cassette C83-85. Copied from reel-to-reels T81-110, T81-111, T81-112, T81-113, and T81-114.
- Collection
| a_s1576_09_c83-055 | Planning meeting for the Triumphant Gospel Singers Association Reunion | Sound | Field recordings
Meetings
African Americans
Music rehearsals
Gospel music
Religious music
Music -- Performance
Gospel songs
Religious songs
A capella singing | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Planning meeting for the Triumphant Gospel Singers Association Reunion
- Date
- 1981-06-11
- Description
- One audio cassette. The meeting includes practice sessions in which church members sing a variety of gospel songs including, "Yes, We're Going to Walk that Milky White Way," "If You are a Witness," "Talkin' About a Child that Do Love Jesus," "Woah, Children, Look Where Jesus Brought Me From," "We'll Understand It Better By and By," "When I've Gone the Last Mile," "Shame on You," "How Great Thou Art," and "We Need to Go Back to the Good Old Way."
- Collection
| Ruby Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | Ruby Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project | sound | Dollmakers
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Dollmaking
Textiles
Patchwork
Mikasuki language
Folk dance
Holidays and festivals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Ruby Billie interview for the Seminole Slide & Tape Project
- Date
- 1982-01-27
- Description
- One audio cassette. Billie, through her interpreter Jumper, discusses making and selling dolls; the younger generation's interest in the Green Corn Dance; music and attendance at the Green Corn Dance; Seminole burial traditions for adults and children; inventing airboats (which were made from Model Ts); women's hairstyles; teaching children traditional crafts, traditions, and values; sewing patchwork design; and winning a prize for a doll she made.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t81-066 | Salsa Express performance at the Latin Fiesta Nightclub for the Cuban American Slide & Tape Project | Sound | Field recordings
Cuban Americans
Music -- Performance
Salsa (Music)
Latin jazz
Puerto Ricans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_05_c81-021 | Seminole Palmetto Dolls slide-tape presentation | Sound | Education
Interviews
Indigenous peoples
Seminole Indians
Crafts
Field recordings
Dollmaking
Miccosukee Indians
Palmetto
Toys
Native Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Seminole Palmetto Dolls slide-tape presentation
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One audio cassette. An educational slide-tape presentation about Seminole doll making. The program was created from earlier fieldwork images and audio recordings. Copied onto T80-96. Duplicate copies can be found in S 1576, box 39, tapes 16-17.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t80-089 | Southeast Alabama and Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention | sound | Field recordings
Music -- Performance
Shape note singing
Religious songs
A capella singing
African Americans
Sacred Harp, Cooper Revision | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Southeast Alabama and Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention
- Date
- 1980-08-24
- Description
Five audiotape reels. In addition to the Cooper revision of The Sacred Harp, particpants at the convention also sing from The Colored Sacred Harp, a 1934 collection of original shape note compositions by black singers compiled by Judge Jackson (1883-1958). His son, Japheth Jackson of Ozark, Ala., leads "Service of the Lord," "Farewell to All" and "Florida Storm" (at the request of folklorist Dyen). Williams, an NEA National Heritage Fellowship recipient from Dale County, Ala., leads "Exhilaration" and "Ninety-Fifth Psalm." Williams's daughter, Bernice Harvey, leads "Return Again." Pauline Griggs leads "The Old Ship of Zion," and Tommie Spurlock of Ozark leads "We Will Sing With the Angels There."
- Collection
| a_s1576_t82-049 | Tommie Jumper interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project | Sound | Field recordings
Native Americans
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Basket making
Interviewing
Interviews
Sound recordings
Basketry
Oral histories
Life histories
Family history
Palmetto weaving
Plants
Beliefs and cultures
Basket maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Tommie Jumper interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project
- Date
- 1981-11-17
- Description
- One reel to reel. Jumper (with Judy Bill Osceola interpreting) discusses (through Osceola) basket making - - including when and how she learned the craft; patterns and designs; the choice of colors and materials (usually pine needles and/or palmetto fronds); teaching the young; selling baskets; and the process. The recordings were created for the Florida Folklife Program's Seminole Slide and Tape Project, a program sponsored by the American Express Company in 1982-1983 to create two educational slide/tape programs for use by schools, community groups, and other educational outlets. One program dealt with sweetgrass basket making; the other on traditional Seminole patchwork. Copied onto audiocassette C83-34. Recordings of the finished program tapes can be found in S 1576, Box 10. Teacher guides, program scripts, and documentation of the project can be found in S 1595, Box 1.
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| a_s1576_09_c83-051 | Triumphant Gospel Singers Association interview | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
African Americans
Oral narratives
Gospel music
Religious songs
A capella singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Triumphant Gospel Singers Association interview
- Date
- 1983-02-16
- Description
- Dyen interviews gospel singers Reverend Brown, Reverend Fountain, Major, and Crews at the Triumphant Gospel Singers Association Quartet Reunion. Brown describes singing with the Dixie Jubilee Singers, a group from Jacksonville, in the 1940s. He was co-founder of the Triumphant Gospel Singers Association in Jacksonville. Fountain, who also helped found the Association, talks about the founding of the group and discusses the types of songs they played in the early days of the group. Major, another member of the gospel association, describes performing with several Jacksonville quartets and singing by ear and sing without musical accompaniment. Crews explains how he started performing with the group in the late 1940s and performing songs solo.
- Collection
| a_s1576_09_c83-053 | Willie Wright and Ted Brooks interview at the Triumphant Gospel Singers Association Quartet Reunion | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
African Americans
Oral narratives
Gospel quartets
Gospel music
Religious songs
Music--Performance
Gospel songs
Religious songs
A capella singing | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Willie Wright and Ted Brooks interview at the Triumphant Gospel Singers Association Quartet Reunion
- Date
- 1983-03-19
- Description
- Two audiocassettes. Gospel quartet rehearses "Standing Up for Jesus" and "It's Gonna Rain" in a practice session; Wright and Brooks discuss their birthplaces and playing with the Royal Harmony Four, a renowned gospel group, which sang throughout Florida and was headquartered in Jacksonville. They describe how they got involved in music in their youth and some of their favorite songs, like "Precious Lord, Take My Hand" and "Looka There Ain't She Pretty." On the first part of C83-54, Brooks discusses the group's favorite songs, like "Little Wooden Church on the Hill" and "The Gospel Train," and singing American folk songs and comic songs in church (such as "The Preacher and the Bear") in church performances. He also discusses singing songs about Casey Jones and John Henry and learning to read music later on in his career as a singer.
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