| 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 |
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.
- Collection
| a_s1714_03_tape02 | 45th Anniversary of the Senior Choir program | Sound | Fieldwork
African Americans
Choir singing
Singing
Choirs (music)
Religious music
Religion
Protestants
Christianity
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Gospel songs
Spiritual music
Spirituals (Songs)
Music performance
Performing arts
Churches
Church membership
Special events
Church attendance
Sound recording
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
45th Anniversary of the Senior Choir program
- Date
- 1985-01-12
- Description
- Four audio cassettes. Recording of the 45th anniversary program for the senior choir of the Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church. The program consisted of traditional gospel and spiritual songs. A malfunctioning microphone caused some distortion and feedback on the recording. In Winter 1985, the Bureau contracted with two folklorists to conduct a folk arts survey of the St. Johns River basin in northeastern Florida. The St. Johns River is the largest and most used river in Florida, supporting much river commerce as well as a modest amount of commercial fishing. Folklorists Mary Anne McDonald and Kathleen Figgen conducted the survey from January through March 1985 under the direction of Folklife Coordinator Blanton Owen and Bureau Chief Ormond Loomis. Documentation compiled in the survey was used to prepare and present the 'St. Johns River Basin Folklife Area' at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| Apalachicola architecture | Apalachicola architecture | Still Image | Fieldwork
Houses
Dwellings
Architecture
Material culture
Buildings
Wood craft
Hotels
Church architecture
Churches
Porches
Community culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Apalachicola architecture
- Date
- 1986-11-12
- Description
- Thirteen color slides. Images of buildings in Apalachicola. 358-361: Houses in Apalachicola; 362-364: shot gun houses; 365-366: Trinity Church; 367: House; 368: Gulf State Bank; 369-370: Gibson Inn. Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
- Collection
| a_s2044_02_tape12 | Aubrey Ghent and Henry Nelson interview for the Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project | Sound | Guitarist
Singers
Fieldwork
Steel guitars
Guitar music
Performing arts
Guitarists
Music performance
African Americans
Religious songs
Religious music
Gospel songs
Gospel musicians
Gospel (Black)
Personal experience narratives
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Oral history
Protestants
Christianity
Churches
Religion
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Aubrey Ghent and Henry Nelson interview for the Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project
- Date
- 1993-11-26
- Description
- Four audio cassette recordings. Recorded at Nelson's sister's house (Mary Linzy) in Ocala. Ghent and Nelson discuss the origins of the Sacred Steel tradition, early influences (e.g. Troman and Willie Eason), the House of God tradition, and playing styles. The Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project originated in 1992 when Florida Folklife Program folklorist Robert Stone discovered that several predominantly African American House of God churches (a sub-sect of the Pentecostal church) in the St. Petersburg area were using steel guitars in their religious services. The practice began by Willie and Troman Eason in the 1930s, and expanded upon by players such as Henry Nelson and Lorenzo Harrison. Realizing that this was a unique musical tradition, labeled Sacred Steel, the Florida Folklife Program to applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to conduct fieldwork and create a music album for public dispersal. The aim of the project was to increase public awareness of the gospel steel guitar tradition, as well as document it for future generations. Matched with state funds, the grant period originally ran from October 1993 through October 1994, but was extended for another year. In that time Stone, along with sound engineers William Dudley and Mike Stapleton, interviewed and recorded several steel guitarists in the St. Petersburg area. An album entitled Sacred Steel was released in 1995. It was then re-released through an agreement with Arhoolie Records in 1997.
- Collection
| a_s2044_02_tape03 | Aubrey Ghent and his father Henry Nelson performing sacred steel music at various events | Sound | Guitarist
Singers
Fieldwork
Steel guitars
Guitar music
Performing arts
Guitarists
Music performance
African Americans
Religious songs
Religious music
Gospel songs
Gospel musicians
Gospel (Black)
Festivals
Folk festivals
Special events
Church attendance
Church services
Protestants
Christianity
Churches
Religion
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Aubrey Ghent and his father Henry Nelson performing sacred steel music at various events
- Date
- 1993-11-26
- Description
- One audio cassette recording. (Duplicate can be found on tape 5.) The first half of the tape was recorded at a House of God "Family and Friends Day Celebration" in Daytona Beach on 5 September 1993. The second half was recorded at the Ocala House of God Church #2 on 26 November 1993, and the then at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival on May 24 1994 (for entire festival performance, see D94-20 in S 1576.) On the second half, the vocals are weak. The Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project originated in 1992 when Florida Folklife Program folklorist Robert Stone discovered that several predominantly African American House of God churches (a sub-sect of the Pentecostal church) in the St. Petersburg area were using steel guitars in their religious services. The practice began by Willie and Troman Eason in the 1930s, and expanded upon by players such as Henry Nelson and Lorenzo Harrison. Realizing that this was a unique musical tradition, labeled Sacred Steel, the Florida Folklife Program to applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to conduct fieldwork and create a music album for public dispersal. The aim of the project was to increase public awareness of the gospel steel guitar tradition, as well as document it for future generations. Matched with state funds, the grant period originally ran from October 1993 through October 1994, but was extended for another year. In that time Stone, along with sound engineers William Dudley and Mike Stapleton, interviewed and recorded several steel guitarists in the St. Petersburg area. An album entitled Sacred Steel was released in 1995. It was then re-released through an agreement with Arhoolie Records in 1997.
- Collection
| a_s2044_02_tape09 | Aubrey Ghent performing Father in Jesus Name | Sound | Fieldwork
Steel guitars
Guitar music
Performing arts
Guitarists
Music performance
African Americans
Religious songs
Religious music
Gospel songs
Gospel musicians
Gospel (Black)
Bands (Music)
Musical groups
Churches
Religion
Christianity
Protestants
Guitarist
Singers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Aubrey Ghent performing Father in Jesus Name
- Date
- 1993-09-05
- Description
- One audio cassette recording. For more of these two, see tape 3. The Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project originated in 1992 when Florida Folklife Program folklorist Robert Stone discovered that several predominantly African American House of God churches (a sub-sect of the Pentecostal church) in the St. Petersburg area were using steel guitars in their religious services. The practice began by Willie and Troman Eason in the 1930s, and expanded upon by players such as Henry Nelson and Lorenzo Harrison. Realizing that this was a unique musical tradition, labeled Sacred Steel, the Florida Folklife Program to applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to conduct fieldwork and create a music album for public dispersal. The aim of the project was to increase public awareness of the gospel steel guitar tradition, as well as document it for future generations. Matched with state funds, the grant period originally ran from October 1993 through October 1994, but was extended for another year. In that time Stone, along with sound engineers William Dudley and Mike Stapleton, interviewed and recorded several steel guitarists in the St. Petersburg area. An album entitled Sacred Steel was released in 1995. It was then re-released through an agreement with Arhoolie Records in 1997.
- Collection
| Bealsville - Wings of Deliverance (Video 7) | Bealsville - Wings of Deliverance (Video 7) | Moving Image | Television
Documentary videos
Local history
Photography
Interviewing on television
Interviews
Baptists
Churches
Preachers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Bealsville - Wings of Deliverance (Video 7)
- Date
- 1988
- Description
- One video recording. (3/4" tape) Foreman was director of the African-American Studies Program at University of Florida. This video was created by producers Loretta Brockmeier and Tom Mills for their documentary for WEDU-TV (Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting), Bealsville -- Wings of Deliverance.
- Collection
| Bealsville - Wings of Deliverance (Video 9) | Bealsville - Wings of Deliverance (Video 9) | Moving Image | Television
Documentary videos
Local history
Photography
Interviewing on television
Interviews
Baptists
Churches
College teachers
Anthropologists
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Bealsville - Wings of Deliverance (Video 9)
- Date
- 1988
- Description
- One video recording. (3/4" tape) Kennedy was a folklorist; Dr. Waterman was professor of Anthropology at University of Florida. This video was created by producers Loretta Brockmeier and Tom Mills for their documentary for WEDU-TV (Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting), Bealsville -- Wings of Deliverance.
- Collection
| Bethel Lutheran Church cemetery | Bethel Lutheran Church cemetery | Still Image | Fieldwork
Cemeteries
Grave markers
Gravestones
Sepulchral monuments
Sepulchral slabs
Stone carving
Graves
Mortuary practices
Churches
Material culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Bethel Lutheran Church cemetery
- Date
- 1978
- Description
- Five color slides. Location unspecified. Probably North Florida. More images found in S 1577, v. 2.
- Collection
| Bethel Lutheran Church cemetery | Bethel Lutheran Church cemetery | Still Image | Fieldwork
Cemeteries
Grave markers
Gravestones
Sepulchral monuments
Sepulchral slabs
Stone carving
Graves
Mortuary practices
Churches
Material culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Bethel Lutheran Church cemetery
- Date
- Description
- Three color slides. Location unspecified. Probably North Florida. More images found in S 1577, v. 1.
- Collection
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