| a_s1576_02_c78-050 | Interview with painter Pharaoh Baker | Sound | Interviews
Occupational groups
Occupational training
Painting
Art
Art and religion
Life histories
Fieldwork
African Americans
Christianity
African Americans Segregation
Racism
Racial discrimination
Cotton
Sculptors
Artists
Painters | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with painter Pharaoh Baker
- Date
- 1978-05-03
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side 1, C78-50: Baker, born in Sneeds, Florida, discusses how he started painting seriously in his early twenties and used the GI Bill to study art at Florida A & M University from 1947 to 1949. He also describes the cotton picking trading system in which the laborers would trade coupons for finished cotton goods for payment. Baker also discusses his paintings: "The Sharecropper," "A Hero's Welcome," "Lord, Make My Burden Lighter," "The Dead Christ," "The Soul Searchers." He also talks about what has influenced his art; his school days; the murder of Emmett Till; and growing up as an African American in Jim Crow Florida. Side 2: Baker talks about his religious background and its influence in his art; how long it takes him to paint a picture; how he sculpts; the materials he uses to paint; and house and sign painting.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t81-100 | Interview with Stetson Kennedy | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Folklore
New Deal, 1933-1939
United States. Work Projects Administration
Painters
Artists
Publishers and publishing
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Collecting
Labor unions
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Authors
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Stetson Kennedy
- Date
- 1981-09-22
- Description
- Three reel to reel recordings. In the interview, Kennedy discusses Stanley Papio; the WPA and the Federal Writers Project; working with anthropologist/writer Zora Neale Hurston; Carita Doggett Corse; collecting folklife during the 1930s; painter Mario Sanchez; his many books; infiltrating the KKK; work with labor unions; and the reprinting of the Folk Songs of Florida by Alton Morris, and Kennedy's Palmetto Country. Stetson Kennedy was one of the earliest folklorists working in Florida. Born in 1916, the Jacksonville native began collecting Northeast Florida folk sayings as a teenager. After a stint at the University of Florida, Kennedy joined the Florida WPA Writers Project in 1937 to administer the folklore, oral history, and ethnic studies section. Among the workers he supervised was novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. Soon thereafter he published Palmetto Country, an exploration of Florida folklife edited by Erskine Caldwell. His papers from the WPA are housed within the Florida Folklife Collection. Although he remained a lifelong folklife supporter, in the 1940s and 1950s, Kennedy also worked to end Jim Crow laws and helped exposed the Ku Klux Klan with several publications. The recipient of many awards, including the Florida Folk Heritage Award and the NAACP Freedom Award, he was also the subject of Library of Congress' folklorist Peggy Bulger's dissertation. Among his books are Southern Exposure, The Klan Unmasked, and South Florida Folklife, co-authored with Bulger and Tina Bucuvalas. Bulger wrote her dissertation on Kennedy. Copied onto C81-71, C81-72 & C81-73.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-144 | Interview with wood carver Jose Orta | Sound | Wood carvers
Carvers (Decorative artists)
Fieldwork
Sound recordings
Interviewing
Interviews
Oral narratives
Wood carving
Puerto Ricans
Latinos
Artists
Woodwork
Art | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with wood carver Jose Orta
- Date
- 1985-07-28
- Description
- One reel to reel. In Spanish with Orta's mother- in-law Reynardo Fernandez translating. The field notes indicate her translations were not always accurate. Orta discusses his carvings; wood used; techniques; making musical instruments; how he learned carving; and his family's involvement. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 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
| a_s1576_11_c84-002 | Pharaoh Baker and Ellis Wright interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program | Sound | Painters
Sculptors
Fieldwork
African Americans
Apprentices
Interviews
Life histories
Oral histories
Teaching of folklore
Painting
Art
Sculpture
Artists studios
Artists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Pharaoh Baker and Ellis Wright interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program
- Date
- 1984-01-12
- Description
- One audio cassette. Baker served as a master artist to apprentice Wright in the 1984-1985 apprenticeship program. In the interview, they discuss learning painting; where they paint; subjects and inspirations; influences (Picasso, Van Gogh, El Greco); sculpture; African American culture; the goals of an artist; various mediums; and art perspectives. 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.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t77-106 | Saturday morning performances at the 1961 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Musicians
Singing
Whipcracking
Clogging
Dance
Square dance
Singers
Dancers
Orators
Students
Whip maker
Rodeo performers
Artists
Bands (Music)
Choruses | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t85-024 | Saturday performances at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage) (Reel 6) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Awards
African Americans
Seminole Indians
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Rites and ceremonies
Musicians
Storytellers
Basket maker
Artists
Painters
Bagpipers
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Saturday performances at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage) (Reel 6)
- Date
- 1985-05-25
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Presentation of the Florida Folk Heritage Awards. This was the first year that Florida Folk Heritage Award was presented. Winners were Susie Billie, Thelma Boltin, Lucreaty Clark, Lillian Saunders, and E.A. Frog Smith. Loomis, Carswell, and Waterman presented the awards. Bagpiper Hamilton played before the ceremony. There was also a second ceremony held in Tallahassee (see S1664, box 1, folder 5 for images of that Tallahassee ceremony.)
- Collection
| a_s2034_04_cd03-102 | Saturday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 4) | Sound | Artists
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Demonstrations
Arts, Jewish
Jewish Americans
Weddings
Ketubah
Legal contract
Marriage contracts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Saturday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 4)
- Date
- 2003-05-24
- Description
- One compact disc. Bucuvalis served as emcee. Jewish marriage contract art is also known as Katubut/Katabbah/Katubah. Jewish law requires men to give women a marriage contract on their wedding day. A ketubah, usually written in Yiddish, guarantees her financial rights upon his death. The contracts are designed with art and motifs of the local Jewish community.
- Collection
| a_s1576_78_d98-036 | Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Personal experience narratives
Life histories
Oral narratives
Kolam (House marks)
Trinidadians
Guitar music
Rice
Arts, Asian
Asian Americans
Indian arts
Indian Americans
Singing
Drum music
String instruments
Music performance
Arts, Chinese
Chinese Americans
Drum performance
Zheng
Musicians
Singers
Artists
Drummers (Musicians) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_78_d98-037 | Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Personal experience narratives
Life histories
Oral narratives
Batik
Painting
Guitar music
Flamenco music
Guitar music (Flamenco)
Fiddling
Indian arts
Indian Americans
Fiddle music
Irish Americans
Arts, Irish
String instruments
Music performance
Dance music
Musicians
Fiddlers
Drummers (Musicians)
Artists
Painters | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s2034_04_cd03-110 | Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 2) | Sound | Artists
Storytellers
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Ketubah
Arts, Jewish
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Weddings
Legal contract
Marriage contracts
Jewish Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 2)
- Date
- 2003-05-25
- Description
- One compact disc. Bucuvalis served as emcee. Jewish marriage contract art is also known as katubut/katabbah/katubah. Jewish law requires men to give women a marriage contract on their wedding day. A ketubah, usually written in Yiddish, guarantees the wife financial rights upon her husband's death. The contracts are designed with art and motifs of the local Jewish community.
- Collection
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