| a_s1603_03_06_01 | A 45 record (single) by Frank Thomas and Friends | Sound | Performances
Sound recordings
Folk singers
Songs
Music performance
Composers
Singing
Singers
Guitarist
Composer | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t87-097b | Bobby Hicks performing at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Singing
Folk singers
Guitar music
Singers
Musicians
Guitarist
Composer | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s2043_00072 | Carmen Dragon at Stephen Foster Memorial | Sound | Concerts
Music performance
Performing arts
Composers
Symphonies
Composer
Conductors | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Carmen Dragon at Stephen Foster Memorial
- Date
- 1960-07-24
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Dragon was a composer and conductor from Antioch, California. He conducted the Hollywood Bowl Symphony, and composed several film scores, including "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Cover Girl", for which he won an Academy Award in 1944. His son, Daryl Dragon, was the husband half of Captain & Tennile. His daughter, also Carmen, was a world-renowned harpist.
- Collection
| a_s1576_04_c80-022 | Copy of the radio program Florida Sand: The Life and Works of Will McLean | Sound | Music performance
Radio programs
Composers
Guitar music
Singing
Folk singers
Interviews
Life histories
Oral performance
Poetry
Singers
Guitarist
Composer
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Copy of the radio program Florida Sand: The Life and Works of Will McLean
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One audio cassette. Copy of the Florida Sand special program for NPR's Folk Festival USA series. The program was written by singer Gamble Rogers and edited and produced by Deborah Lamberton and Flawn Williams. The program was mixed at WHA studios in Madison, Wisconsin. The show celebrated the songs and life of Florida singer/songwriter Will McLean. The show includes memories and stories by Rogers, Boltin, and McLean, plus McLean singing several of his songs.
- Collection
| a_s1576_03_c79-085 | Florida Sands: Stories and songs by Will McLean | Sound | Music performance
Folk singers
Singing
Guitar music
Tales
Oral narratives
Storytelling
Composers
Florida history
Local history
Singers
Guitarist
Composer
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Florida Sands: Stories and songs by Will McLean
- Date
- 1970
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. McLean performs several of his songs, and explains the stories behind them. Many of his compositions dealt with Florida history and culture.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-084 | Interview with bluegrass performer E. Gordon Rouse | Sound | Fieldwork
Oral histories
Performing arts
Performers
Life histories
Bluegrass music
String bands
Musical traditions, Anglo-Americans
Interviewing
Interviews
Composers
Composer
Bluegrass musicians
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with bluegrass performer E. Gordon Rouse
- Date
- 1985-08-07
- Description
- Two reel to reel tapes. (Copied onto C86-125/126.) Interview with bluegrass composer and performer E. Gordon Rouse (with his wife Carrie), famed as the co-author (with brother Erwin) of the Orange Blossom Special. The Rouse Brothers, originally from North Carolina, settled permanently in Florida in the 1940s. They performed as a hillbilly act, including original bluegrass songs, jokes, and stories. Rouse discusses family history; learning music; early country and bluegrass music; writing Orange Blossom Special; his performing career; working with Johnny Cash; Miami theaters; the break-up of the Rouse Brothers; and recent work. 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_s1685_05_tape12 | Interview with rap group Kan-Dee-Krew | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Sound recordings
Life histories
Oral histories
African Americans
Music performance
Performing arts
Rap songs
Repartee
Rapping
Hip hop songs
Hip hop music
Rap music
Speech play
Composers
Singers
Composer
Rap musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with rap group Kan-Dee-Krew
- Date
- 1986-09-06
- Description
- Two audio recordings. Interview with the rap group Kan-Dee-Krew, which rapped about drug abuse. It consisted of six members: Duane and Rodney Rumph, Coffie, Harden, Plummer, and Thomas. They discuss rapping; writing rap songs; practicing; fitting the beat with the rhyme; rapping topics; naming the group; performance nicknames; gangs; and drug use prevention. They also perform four rap songs. Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t90-144b | Jeannie Fitchen performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) | Sound | Singers
Guitarist
Composer
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Guitar music
String instruments
Folk singers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Jeannie Fitchen performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)
- Date
- 1990-05-27
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Walker served as emcee. Often called the 'Queen of Florida Folk,' Fitchen debuted at the Florida Folk Festival at fifteen in 1966 as Eugenia Sisinni. Born in Orlando, Fitchen has played most of the festivals ever since, as well as many others including the Beers' Fox Hollow Festival. In 1999 she was nominated for a Grammy for her album, Roads. Fitchen told a story about each song.
- Collection
| a_s1685_05_tape13 | Rap group Kan-Dee-Krew at Pahokee Elementary School | Sound | Singers
Composer
Fieldwork
Teaching of folklore
Sound recordings
Elementary schools
Students
African Americans
Music performance
Performing arts
Rap songs
Repartee
Rapping
Hip hop songs
Hip hop music
Rap music
Speech play
Composers
Education
Teenagers
Rap musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Rap group Kan-Dee-Krew at Pahokee Elementary School
- Date
- 1987-02-19
- Description
- Two audio recordings. Presentation by the rap group Kan-Dee-Krew, which rapped about drug abuse. It consisted of six members: Duane and Rodney Rumph, Coffie, Harden, Plummer, and Thomas. They performed several rap songs and answer student questions about rapping, songwriting, performing, and drug abuse. Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
- Collection
| a_s1576_14_c84-088 | Recording of Florida's Black Hat Troubadour | Sound | Guitarist
Composer
Musicians
Sound recordings
Music performance
Folk singers
Guitar music
Florida history
Singing
Composers
Environment
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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