20 items found
Collection ID is exactly "1" AND Fieldworker is exactly "Nusz, Nancy J."
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Alan Jabbour at the Nick of Time Conference

Alan Jabbour at the Nick of Time Conference

Date
1989-02-04
Description
Dale Olsen serves as emcee. Jabbour plays music from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and discusses his background as a native Floridian from Miami. Sources for Florida folk materials are discussed and music is played, including "The Sloop John B." Jabbour continues discussing songs of various ethnic origins, such as Slovakian, Minorcan, and Greek.
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Alan Lomax at the Nick of Time Conference

Alan Lomax at the Nick of Time Conference

Date
1989-02-04
Description
Dale Olsen serves as emcee. Lomax discusses the background of what had been said previously in the conference; the "century of the common man"; various people involved with the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) including Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt; archives and records; Woody Guthrie and his song, "Going Where the Climate Suits My Clothes"; WPA writers and John Lomax's involvement in the beginning of the Slave Narrative Collection; difficulties and risks in gathering folklore; importance of folklore to the public sector; fieldwork with African-Americans; Zora Neale Hurston and performs one of the songs she collected; Stetson Kennedy and his work with the WPA; the dangers of fieldwork; importance of oldest documents; living in the black community; African instruments; and songs he collected (particularly blues).
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Ann Banks at the Nick of Time Conference

Ann Banks at the Nick of Time Conference

Date
1989-02-04
Description
Dale Olsen serves as emcee. Banks discusses her background as a Florida native and tells stories. She also discusses re-issued stories from the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), such as Benjamin Botkin and his emphasis on literary realism; Works Progress Administration's (WPA) writers as pioneers.
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Barbara Speisman at the Nick of Time Conference

Barbara Speisman at the Nick of Time Conference

Date
1989-02-04
Description
Dale Olsen serves as emcee. Speisman discusses her own background and stories about Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
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Camilla Collins presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar

Camilla Collins presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar

Date
1989-07-23
Description
Three audio cassettes. This recording has a restriction set by Collins: no reporductions, quotations, or distributioon can be performed with her voice and information. Florida folklorist Collins discusses the occupational folklife and culture, including factories, textile mills, employee-boss relations, Xerox lore, weather and the work environment, and occupational language.
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David Kaufelt at the Nick of Time Conference

David Kaufelt at the Nick of Time Conference

Date
1989-02-04
Description
Dale Olsen serves as emcee. Kaufelt discusses the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Guide as a resource for writers and its different contents. He focuses on the Florida historical novel; the tour section; African Americans in the guide; "The Golden Wedding"; winter season; sports and recreation; the guide as providing a skeleton of Florida history; failings of the guide including economic and racist fears; antisemitism and the lack of reference to Jews in the guide; the mechanics of putting together the guide; the guide as a "very good resource for Florida."
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Gary Mormino at the Nick of Time Conference

Gary Mormino at the Nick of Time Conference

Date
1989-02-04
Description
Dale Olsen serves as emcee. Mormino speaks on aspects of the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) relating to African-Americans. He specifically discusses Stetson Kennedy; the Ex-Slave Club of Miami; WPA bill of 1935; Florida's part in the project; African-American writing unit; Sterling Brown; slave narratives collected between 1936 and 1938 and Florida's slave narratives; non-published interviews; poor whites; faith in the African-American church; social fabric of plantation-community life; learning to read; retaining African customs; African-American community life in interviews; differences between Georgia and Alabama as seen in narratives and American history.
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J. D. Agner, Jr. interview for Folk Arts in Rural Education

J. D. Agner, Jr. interview for Folk Arts in Rural Education

Date
1983-03-31
Description
Two audio cassettes. Mr. Agner discusses his family and background; how he got started in music; remembers first song he learned, "I Saw the Light"; talks of his first band, The North Florida Bluegrass Boys; talks about styles he plays - bluegrass and Gospel; how he learned to play guitar; songs he learned from his father: "I Live On", "Great Speckled Bird"; talks about other family members that play; talks about cane grinding; making can syrup; speaks of plans to teach his children music and cane grinding. At the time of interview, he worked as a meat packer.
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Jan Rosenberg presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar

Jan Rosenberg presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar

Date
1989-07-27
Description
Folklorist Rosenberg discusses Jewish folklife; including the religion; temples; religious rites, practices, and art; Jewish stories, jokes, and life rituals; world, US, and Florida Jews; food; gender and Judaism; misconceptions of folklife; researching Jewish folklife; and Jewish Americans in the South. Recorded at the Jacksonville Museum of Science and History. Funded by the Florida Endowment of the humanities, the seminar series featured presentations by Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs staff and area specialists discussing the study of folk culture; folk traditions in Florida; women's occupational culture and lore; and the folk culture and lore of Hispanic, Jewish, and African-American women, including customs, beliefs, family and social relations, folk tales and jokes, and musical traditions and styles.
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Joyce Jackson presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar

Joyce Jackson presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar

Date
1989-07-27
Description
Folklorist Jackson discussing African America culture and folklfie, including religion; religious music (gospel, spirituals); blues music; popular music; funerals; jazz; quilting; verbal arts: storytelling, the the 'dozens' (an verbal insult game), signifying; folklife in general. Recorded at the Jacksonville Museum of Science and History.
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Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
a_s1576_25_c89-002bAlan Jabbour at the Nick of Time ConferenceSoundWorks Progress Administration (WPA)
Folklore
Oral histories
Field recordings
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a_s1576_25_c89-004bAlan Lomax at the Nick of Time ConferenceSoundWorks Progress Administration's (WPA)
Folkore
Oral histories
African-Americans
Fieldwork
Blues (Music)
Folk songs
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a_s1576_25_c89-003bAnn Banks at the Nick of Time ConferenceSoundWorks Progress Administration's (WPA)
Federal Writers' Project (FWP)
Folkore
Oral histories
Literature
Interviews
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a_s1576_25_c89-007bBarbara Speisman at the Nick of Time ConferenceSoundWorks Progress Administration's (WPA)
Folkore
Federal Writers' Project (FWP)
Literature
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a_s1712_01_tape02bCamilla Collins presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminarSoundConferences and seminars series
Seminars
Folklore
Folklife
Occupational groups
Occupational folklore
Storytelling
Tales
Employee employee relations
Lecturers
Teaching of folklore
Workshops (Adult education)
Museums
Employee employer relations
Folklorists
Oral communication
Labor
Workplace
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a_s1576_25_c89-008bDavid Kaufelt at the Nick of Time ConferenceSoundWorks Progress Administration's (WPA)
African-Americans
Folkore
Literature
Florida--History
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a_s1576_25_c89-006aGary Mormino at the Nick of Time ConferenceSoundWorks Progress Administration's (WPA)
African-Americans
Florida--History
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a_s1576_13_c84-057J. D. Agner, Jr. interview for Folk Arts in Rural EducationSoundFolksingers
Bluegrass music
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Grinding (manufacturing processes)
Old time music
Syrups
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a_s1712_01_tape08bJan Rosenberg presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminarSoundJewish Americans
Religious identity
Rites and ceremonies
Judaism
Women in Judaism
Oral histories
Holidays
Religious rituals
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a_s1712_01_tape11Joyce Jackson presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminarSoundConference presentations
African Americans
Storytellers
Folklife specialists
Applied folklore
Storytelling
Folklorists
Oral communication
Public speaking
Religion
Spirituals (Songs)
Quilting
Religious music
Musical instruments
Blues (Music)
Gospel music
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