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<em>Drop on Down in Florida</em> pre-master

Drop on Down in Florida pre-master

Date: 1980-06
Description: One audio cassette. A duplicate copy can be found on C80-19. This is an unmixed, pre-master third-generation recording of field recordings conducted between 1978 and 1980 from the Florida Record Project. That project, along with work for the North Florida Folklife Project, resulted in Drop on Down in Florida, an exploration of African American musical traditions in Florida. Tape is in very poor condition and cannot be reproduced.
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Drop on Down in Florida pre-master

Compilation of recordings by Emmett Murray & Moses Williams from the Florida Record Project

Date: 1980-03-09
Description: This audiocassette tape was composed of selections from field recordings for the North Florida Folklife Project. Some tracks were featured on the Florida Folklife Program's compilation of African American musical traditions throughout Florida, Drop on Down in Florida. The tracks by Murray were copied from T83-62 & T83-63, recorded March 9, 1980. Tracks by Williams were copied from T78-321, recorded April 22, 1978.
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Compilation of recordings by Emmett Murray & Moses Williams from the Florida Record Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Date: 1978
Description: This audiocassette tape was composed of selections from field recordings for the North Florida Folklife Project. Some tracks were featured on the Florida Folklife Program's compilation of African American musical traditions throughout Florida, Drop on Down in Florida. The tracks by Brown & N. L. Williams are copied from T78-326 & T78-327, recorded May 28, 1978; tracks by Fletcher & Blackwelder are copied from T78-322 & T78-323, recorded April 22, 1978; tracks by Moses Williams are copied from T78-321, recorded April 22, 1978; tracks by Richard Williams are copied from T78-328 & T78-329, recorded May 27, 1978 (except "Travel the Whole World Around," copied from T83-66, recorded March 16, 1980).
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Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Date: 1978
Description: This audiocassette tape was composed of selections from field recordings for the North Florida Folklife Project and the Florida Record Project. Tracks 1-4 were featured on the Florida Folklife Program's compilation of African American musical traditions throughout Florida, Drop on Down in Florida. The tracks by Moses Williams are copied from T78-321, recorded April 22, 1978; tracks by Richard Williams and family are copied from T78-328 & T78-329, recorded May 27, 1978; tracks by Brown & N. L. Williams are copied from T78-326, recorded May 28, 1978; "Trot Along, My Honey" copied from T78-322, recorded April 22, 1978; "Angel Band" copied from T78-350, recorded October 29, 1978; "Wade in the Water" copied from T78-318, recorded April 16, 1978.
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Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Florida Folklife slide-tape presentation

Date: 1980
Description: One audio cassette. An educational audio and slide program about Florida folklife. The program was created from earlier fieldwork images and audio recordings. In the late 1970s, the FFP under the direction of Bulger created six audio and slide programs about Florida folklife for use by schools, libraries, and other organizations. Copied onto reels T83-138 and T80-49.
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Florida Folklife slide-tape presentation

Florida Record Project sampler tape

Date: 1980
Description: One audio cassette. Sampler tape from the Florida Folklife Program-produced album, Drop on Down in Florida, which was a collection of fieldwork recordings of African American music in Florida released in the early 1980s as a two-record LP.
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Florida Record Project sampler tape

	Identifier	Title	Type	Subject
a_s1576_03_c80-018	<em>Drop on Down in Florida</em> pre-master	Sound	Music--Performance Field recordings African Americans Guitar music Blues (Music) Religious music Religious songs Musical tradition, sacred Gospel music Gospel songs Gospel (Black) Blues singers Spirituals (Songs) Church services Prayer Sound recordings Shape note singing Churches Diddly bow	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_04_c80-020	Compilation of recordings by Emmett Murray & Moses Williams from the Florida Record Project	Sound	Music--Performance Field recordings African Americans Blues (Music) Diddley bows	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_03_c80-002	Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project	Sound	Music -- Performance Field recordings African Americans Blues (Music) Diddley bows Old-time music Fiddle tunes Gospel music Religious songs Rural blues Banjo music Folk music -- United States	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_03_c80-001	Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project	Sound	Music -- Performance Field recordings African Americans Blues (Music) Rural blues Diddley bows Gospel music Religious songs Shape note singing A capella singing Sacred Harp, Cooper Revision	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_05_c81-017	Florida Folklife slide-tape presentation	Sound	Education Interviews Basket making Field recordings Religious songs African Americans Whips Shape note singing Blues (Music) Diddley bows	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_05_c81-023	Florida Record Project sampler tape	Sound	Diddley bows Music -- Performance African Americans Blues (Music) Blues singers Guitar music Gospel music	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg

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Drop on Down in Florida pre-master

Drop on Down in Florida pre-master

Compilation of recordings by Emmett Murray & Moses Williams from the Florida Record Project

Compilation of recordings by Emmett Murray & Moses Williams from the Florida Record Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Florida Folklife slide-tape presentation

Florida Folklife slide-tape presentation

Florida Record Project sampler tape

Florida Record Project sampler tape

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Drop on Down in Florida pre-master

Drop on Down in Florida pre-master

Compilation of recordings by Emmett Murray & Moses Williams from the Florida Record Project

Compilation of recordings by Emmett Murray & Moses Williams from the Florida Record Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Florida Folklife slide-tape presentation

Florida Folklife slide-tape presentation

Florida Record Project sampler tape

Florida Record Project sampler tape