Anointed Voices gospel program | Anointed Voices gospel program | Still Image | A capella singers A capella singing Gospel music Religious rites Religious music African Americans Church services Protestants Christianity Church membership Protestant church buildings Special events Performing arts Performers Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Anointed Voices gospel program
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- 1991-04
- Description
- Two contact sheets with 53 black and white images, plus negatives. Images of a gospel music program at the Free Will Church of God called Anointed Voices. 1-8, 41-44: The Versiteers; 9-40, 45-53: Gospel Knights, Edith Mae Ryan.
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a_s1576_t85-150 | Golden Gospel: Afro-American Roots | Sound | A capella singers A capella singing Concerts Special events Music performance Singing African Americans Gospel (Black) Gospel songs Gospel music Musical groups Religious music Religious songs Guitarist Musicians Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Golden Gospel: Afro-American Roots
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- 1985-09-14
- Description
- Nine reel to reel recordings. Reel T86-215 has very poor sound quality -- nearly inaudible. Recordings of two concerts (9/14/1985 in Leesburg on T86-214 through T86-216; and 9/15/1985 in Orlando -- at the Frontline Outreach Building -- on T85-150 through T85 -154) featuring several gospel music groups from Florida and elsewhere: Ponder Singers (Jax.); Cisrow Gospel Allstars (Millville, NJ); Washington Singers (Cocoa); Goldenaires and the Spiritualettes (Orlando); Master Keys and the Dixie Hummingbirds (Philadelphia, PA); and the Dixie Jubilees (Jax). For images of the performance, see S 1577, volume 30. For videos of both performances, see FV-115 and FV-119 (Orlando), and FV-114, FV-116 through FV-118 in S 1615.
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a_s1576_84_d00-035b | David Lee singing school at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Performance and Dance Stage | sound | A capella singing Florida Folk Festival Folk festivals Music -- Performance Religious songs Shape note singing Sacred Harp, Cooper Revision | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
David Lee singing school at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Performance and Dance Stage
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- 2000-05-28
- Description
Lee, from Hoboken, Ga., conducts a singing school, teaching participants shape note singing and songs from The Sacred Harp. He explains the history of shape note singing and The Sacred Harp in the Okefenokee region, indicating that singers learned to sing through aural transmission, passed down from generation to generation. Lee describes the four shapes (fa, sol, la, mi) and how they correspond to the major scale, followed by a demonstration. After clarifying how singers keep time and stay on beat, he explains how beats can be grouped together in common, compound, or triple time. As a synthesis of the lesson, Lee leads the class in tunes from The Sacred Harp, Revised Cooper Edition. There is digital distortion due to tape corruption on "Florida."
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a_s1576_t77-078f | The Silas Lee Family performance at the 1958 Florida Folk Festival Main Stage | sound | A capella singing Florida Folk Festival Folk festivals Music -- Performance Sacred Harp, Cooper Revision Shape note singing Religious songs | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
The Silas Lee Family performance at the 1958 Florida Folk Festival Main Stage
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- 1958-05-04
- Description
- Thelma Boltin serves as emcee. At 12:42, Griffin explains shape note singing, mentioning musicologist George Pullen Jackson and the Denson shape note singing family. The Silas Lee Family was from Hoboken, Georgia.
The performance is a splice of the sixth part of audiotape T77-78 and the first part of audiotape T77-79. "Religion Is a Fortune" features the shapes only due to the tape cutting off.
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Zora Neale Hurston Festival in 1991 | Zora Neale Hurston Festival in 1991 | Still Image | A capella singing Churches Church services Protestants Hats Special events Music Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals African Americans Haircutting Barbering | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Zora Neale Hurston Festival in 1991
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- 1991-01
- Description
- One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white images. Zora Neale Hurston was a major literary figure, known as one of the nation's preeminent African American writers. She was from Eatonville. Now, each January, the town holds a festival in her honor. 1-2: Jamie Lee Harell; 3-4: Orlando School of Culture and Dance performing; 5-11: Vaughan McCall demonstrating hair styling; 12-14: Washington Sisters singing a capella; 15-18: Gloria's Hats 19-21: Elden Earl Madison 22-36: St. James Church worshiping (33-36: Rev. Nolan Pitts preaching).
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African American dancers and singers at the Florida Folk Festival | African American dancers and singers at the Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | African Americans Children A capella singing Costumes Students Performing arts Dancers Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
a_s1576_t86-234b | Unidentified Eatonville Methodist church service & musical performance for the WPA Federal Writers' Project | sound | African Americans Music -- Performance Gospel music Church music Field recordings Preaching Church services A capella singing African American Methodists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Unidentified Eatonville Methodist church service & musical performance for the WPA Federal Writers' Project
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- 1935-06
- Description
- Second part of one reel-to-reel tape. Jones, Marshall, Henry, and Goldie perform religious songs accompanied by unidentified singers. Rev. Haynes and a visiting pastor conduct a religious service for an unidentified Methodist church in Eatonville, Fla.
These recordings were made as part of the first Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Federal Writers' Project (FWP) recording expedition in Florida, conducted by Lomax, Hurston, and Barnicle. These recordings are copies of acetate disks housed in the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, numbered AFS 350 through 354. While the full recording is unedited, some of the track selections have been spliced where skipping or dropouts occurred.
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Unidentified young African American girls performance for the WPA Federal Writers' Project | Unidentified young African American girls performance for the WPA Federal Writers' Project | sound | African Americans Music -- Performance Field recordings Children's songs A capella singing Singing games | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Unidentified young African American girls performance for the WPA Federal Writers' Project
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- 1935-06
- Description
- First part of one reel-to-reel tape. A group of unidentified African American girls perform children's songs unaccompanied. These recordings were made as part of the first Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Federal Writers' Project (FWP) recording expedition in Florida, conducted by Lomax, Hurston, and Barnicle. These recordings are from a copy of an acetate disk housed in the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, numbered AFS 349. While the full recording is unedited, some of the track selections have been spliced where skipping or dropouts occurred.
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Apprentices learning gospel music | Apprentices learning gospel music | Still Image | Apprentices African Americans Gospel (Black) A capella singing A capella singers Teaching of folklore Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Apprentices learning gospel music
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- 1990
- Description
- Two color slides; 30 negatives. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
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Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 13 of 15) | Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 13 of 15) | Moving Image | Bands (Music) Musicians Singers Guitarist Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Performing arts Music performance Bagpipe music Bagpipers Bagpipes Arts, Scottish Musical traditions, Anglo-Americans Folk singers Guitar music Spiritual music Spirituals (Songs) A capella singing A capella singers Religious songs | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 13 of 15)
- Date
- 1991-05-25
- Description
- One video recording (3/4", 22 minutes). Unedited footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festival. Graham-Smith performed old English folk songs. The Georgia Sea Island Singers sang African American spirituals. For an audio recording of the pipe band, and of Graham Smith, see T91-31 in S 1576; for the Georgia Sea Island Singers, see T91-32.
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