| 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 |
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.
- Collection
| 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 |
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).
- Collection
| a_s1576_03_c80-005 | Williams Family performance for the Florida Record Project | Sound | Music -- Performance
African Americans
Blues (Music)
Gospel music
Rural blues
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Williams Family performance for the Florida Record Project
- Date
- 1980-03-16
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side two is blank. The Florida Record Project resulted in the two-album recording, Drop On Down in Florida. This was an exploration of African American musical traditions in Florida.
- Collection
| a_s1576_03_c80-006 | Moses Williams playing the diddly bow | Sound | Music performance
Fieldwork
African Americans
Guitar music
Blues (Music)
Blues singers
Diddly bow
String instruments
Gospel music
Gospel songs
Gospel (Black)
Musicians
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Moses Williams playing the diddly bow
- Date
- 1980-03-11
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side two is blank. The Florida Record Project resulted in the two-album recording, Drop On Down in Florida. This was an exploration of African American musical traditions in Florida. Moses Williams was originally from Mississippi. He moved to Florida in the 1950s. He played the diddly bow, a one-string homemade musical instrument, also called a "yakkedy board." Images from this performance can be found in S 1577, box 17, folder 78 (along with more information on the diddly bow). For more from this field recording session, see S 1576, reels T81-15 and T83-86.
- Collection
| 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_s1576_04_c80-021 | Compilation of recordings by the Williams Family & Johnny Brown from the Florida Record Project | Sound | Music -- Performance
Field recordings
African Americans
Blues (Music)
Shape note singing
Gospel music
Religious songs | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Compilation of recordings by the Williams Family & Johnny Brown from the Florida Record Project
- Date
- 1978-05-10
- Description
- One audio cassette. Williams, Ella, and Lilly were recorded in Newberry on 27 May 1978; Brown was recorded in St. Petersburg on 10 May 1978; and the shape note singers were recorded in Crestview on 18 May 1980. (For the full recording of the shape note singers, see S 1576, reels T83-82 through T83-85.) These were field recordings from the Florida Record Project. That project, along with work for the North Florida Project, resulted in the two-album recording, Drop On Down in Florida, an exploration of African American musical styles in Florida.
- Collection
| a_s1576_05_c81-016 | Lucreaty Clark, Lucious Anderson & Mary Anderson interview | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
Gospel music
African Americans
A capella singing
Religious songs
Games | /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 |
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.
- Collection
| a_s1576_05_c81-024 | Early version of Florida Folk Festival retrospective album | Sound | Music -- Performance
African Americans
Tall tales
Gospel music
Shape note singing
Storytelling
Seminole Indians
Folk festivals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Early version of Florida Folk Festival retrospective album
- Date
- 1981
- Description
- One audio cassette. An early, longer version of the album that became Florida Folk Festival: The First 25 Years (1953-1977), produced by the Florida Folklife Program. For the complete album, see T83-135 and C83-93.
- Collection
| a_s1576_05_c81-032 | Sacred music from the Drop on Down in Florida album (Sides 3 and 4) | Sound | Singers
Musicians
Shape note singers
African Americans
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Singing
Gospel songs
Musical tradition, sacred
Shape note singing
Religious music
Religious songs
A capella singers
A capella singing
Choirs (music)
Choir singing | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Sacred music from the Drop on Down in Florida album (Sides 3 and 4)
- Date
- 1981
- Description
- One audio cassette. Recording of the last two sides of the FFP-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.
- Collection
Listen: The Blues Program
