| a_s1576_t82-001 | Interview with blues singer/pianist Ida Goodson | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
African Americans
Blues (Music)
Piano music (Blues)
Personal experience narratives
Jazz music
Family history
Churches
Religious music
Vaudeville
Baptists
Nightclubs
Holidays and festivals
Mardi Gras
Calendar rites
Music business
May Day
Racial segregation
African Americans Segregation
Great Depression
Medicine shows
Gospel music
Gospel (Black)
Religion
Christianity
Singers
Pianists
Women jazz musicians
Blues singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with blues singer/pianist Ida Goodson
- Date
- 1981-11-03
- Description
- Four reel to reels. Interview with singer and pianist Ida Goodson. Born and raised in Pensacola, she toured and recorded with various blues and jazz bands in the late 1920s and 1930s, and later worked for a lumber company for 35 years, while still playing the nightclubs. She converted to Christianity in 1960 and began playing gospel music. In the interview, she discusses her family; her sisters experiences in the music business; learning to play piano; her first song; blues, Dixieland, and jazz music in the 1920s and 1930s; touring Alabama and Georgia in the 1930s; Florida nightclubs; her marriage in 1927; her children's involvement in music; growing up in the Baptist Church and her religious reawakening in the 1960s; recording in New Orleans; games she played as a child; and May Day and Mardi Gras celebrations in Pensacola. Copied onto audiocassettes C83-1, C83-2, C83-3, and C83-4.
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| a_s1576_t82-012 | Interview with blues singer/pianist Ida Goodson | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
African Americans
Blues (Music)
Piano music (Blues)
Personal experience narratives
Jazz music
Ragtime music
Ragtime songs
Religious music
Vaudeville
Dance music
Nightclubs
Jazz songs
Popular songs
Music business
Gospel songs
Gospel musicians
Gospel (Black)
Great Depression
Singers
Pianists
Women jazz musicians
Blues singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with blues singer/pianist Ida Goodson
- Date
- 1981-11-26
- Description
- Three reel to reels. A second interview with singer and pianist Ida Goodson (the first can be found on T82-1 through T82-4). Born and raised in Pensacola, she toured and recorded with various blues and jazz bands in the late 1920s and 1930s, and later worked for a lumber company for 35 years, while still playing the nightclubs. She converted to Christianity in 1960 and began playing gospel music. In the interview, she discusses and demonstrates various music styles (jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime); learning songs; her first blues song (One Finger Blues); performers she knew and played with (Duke Ellington, Charlie Segar, Jimmy Cox, Helen Jackson, Mack Thomas); difference between blues and gospel; and gospel quartets in Pensacola in the 1920s. Copied onto audiocassettes C83-10, C83-11, and C83-12.
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| a_s1576_10_c83-104 | Interview with Fred Williams | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Local history
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Turpentine industry and trade
Turpentining
Agriculture
Farm life
Family farming
Great Depression
New Deal, 1933-1939
Musical tradition, sacred
Shape note singing
World War, 1939-1945
Broom making
Farmer
Broom makers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Fred Williams
- Date
- 1983-04-16
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. C83-104: Williams, born in Sneads, Florida, in 1923, discusses being raised in a rural farming family in Jackson County, Florida; joining the Army and using his disabled veterans' pension to start his own farm; the character of his family; life during the "Hoover Days" of the Depression; the Wesleyan Church creating a sense of civic community; farming under President Roosevelt's government policies; serving in the military and being injured in Europe during World War Two; being disabled; family sayings; and sacred harp singing in northern Alabama. In addition, he also talks about hog killing, smoking meat, mule plowing and other routines on the farm. C83-105: Williams talks about making homemade brooms; giving homemade brooms and bonnets to the elderly; the proliferation of modern technology; physical and mental challenges involved in farming; attending church revivals and going fishing in the summertime; training mules; and serenadings, weddings, and cane grindings. In addition, he remarks upon black quartet singing, his marriage, his political career and political outlook, and his religious views, including his outlook on the bible, Israel, and his favorable regard for Jews.
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| a_s1576_10_c83-106 | Interview with Ida Sessions | Sound | Quiltmakers
Needleworkers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Local history
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Quilting
Quilts
Elderly, the
Farm life
Family farming
Great Depression
Needlework | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Ida Sessions
- Date
- 1983-05-05
- Description
- One audio cassette. Sessions, a quilter, was born in Winston County, Alabama, and was eighty-two years old at the time of the interview. In the interview, she discusses coming to Winter Garden, Florida, in the 1920s; learning to quilt from her mother; the tools and methods used in quilting; and quilting patterns such as "rail fence", "trip around the world", "butterfly," "girl with umbrella" and others. In addition, she describes growing up on a farm and planting crops by signs and omens.
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| a_s1576_10_c83-102 | Interview with Lloyd Earl McMullian, Sr. | Sound | Turpentiners
Farmer
Fieldwork
Interviews
Local history
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Turpentine industry and trade
Turpentining
Agriculture
Farm life
Family farming
Great Depression
Tractors
Mules | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Lloyd Earl McMullian, Sr.
- Date
- 1983-04-16
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. C83-102: Macmillan discussed how Two Egg, Florida, and Paramour, Florida, were named; his birth in Grand Ridge, Florida, in 1910; his and his father's work in turpentining; getting into the farming business after the turpentining industry's decline; farming with mules and, later, with tractors in the 1930s; raising peanuts, soy beans, and corn; his son's work in cattle farming; blacksmithing; canning and preserving food; and magic and omens in farming. He also tell stories about voting Republican due to promises of racial equality and talks about "Hoover Days" and the Depression; old farming sayings and practices; and making moonshine from cane skimmings. C83-103: McMullian discusses visiting the Florida Folk Festival; collecting antique engines as a hobby; the turpentining process; tally calls and tally boards; "raking" trees; enjoying his work in the turpentine industry; bank loans; and trains and business transportation. In addition, he tells a story about the first toilet he ever saw and talks about losing crops in droughts and from nematodes; his father's employment in a large farm; fiddle and piano music and dances; Sacred Harp music; African-Americans; square dancing and clogging; serenades, housewarmings, and quilting parties; and farming in cold weather.
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| a_s1576_11_c83-123 | Jackson County Library Program: Agriculture | Sound | Farmers
Turpentiners
Folklife
Workshops (Adult education)
Teaching of folklore
Libraries
Oral education
Agriculture
Great Depression
Turpentine industry workers
Public speaking
Turpentining
Life histories
Occupational groups
Occupational folklore
Farming
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Jackson County Library Program: Agriculture
- Date
- 1983-07-21
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Recording of a program for the Jackson County Library on family agriculture and turpentining for the "Pursuits and Pastimes" series. The program, led by Doris Dyen, consists of discussions on basketry; growing herbs and spices; hunting for snakes; folk games; and cultural differences amongst ethnic groups. Includes talks by Fred Williams and Lloyd McMullian. On tape C83-124, McMullian discusses hog farming; preparing and curing hogs; President Hoover and life during the Great Depression; African Americans and voting; company stores; and ways to farm and uses for turpentine.
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| a_s1618_05_tape06 | Richard Seaman interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Fiddle tunes
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Chordophones
Fiddles
Square dance
Old time music
Banjos
Great Depression
String band music
Storytelling
Tall tales | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Richard Seaman interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1988-08-10
- Description
- One audio cassette. Seaman, an old-time fiddle player who grew up in Kissimmee, playing at square dances. He moved to Jacksonville in 1922, and spent his life working for the railroads. He discusses learning how to play the fiddle; playing for square dances; earning a living through music in the Depression; memorizing tunes; working for the railroads; dance tunes; beaters; local musicians; dance traditions in North Florida; German music in area; fiddle contests; playing in Jacksonville; and various tall tales.
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| a_s1685_07_tape08 | Robert James Rudd interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Furniture makers
Woodcarvers
Field recordings
Furniture
Wicker furniture
Interviews
Woodworking shops
Carpentry
Chairs
Cypress trees
Oral narratives
Great Depression
Hunting
Local history | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Robert James Rudd interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1986-09-14
- Description
- Three audio cassettes. A former construction worker who was born in Boynton Beach, Rudd built wicker furniture from cypress. Originally the cypress was local, but as development increased, he began acquiring the wood areas north of him. Few power tools were used to make the furniture. In the interview he discusses his father's furniture making career; types of furniture made; tools used; selling furniture; growing during the Depression in South Florida; Cedar Key; the loss of timber sources; the Florida East Coast railway; his career in the US Navy; frog and alligator hunting; snakes; and furniture made from grapevine.
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| a_s1576_68_c97-074 | Saturday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Oral performance
Life histories
Interviewing
African Americans
Jazz songs
Jazz music
Blues (Music)
United States. Work Projects Administration
African Americans Segregation
Great Depression
New Deal, 1933-1939
Jazz musicians
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Saturday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)
- Date
- 1997-05-24
- Description
- One audio cassette recordings. Sax Kari (a.k.a. "Candied Yams") is interviewed by Brent Tozzer. He discusses his childhood in New Orleans and the blues and jazz influences on his life (such as Benny Goodman and Charlie Christian). He speaks about learning music (specifically piano from Fats Waller) and early groups in which he played. He also discusses the various terms used for African-Americans and their changes over time as well as growing up during the Depression and his first job with the WPA.
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| a_s1576_32_c94-034 | Storytellers at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Storytelling Auditorium) (Saturday) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Storytelling
Narratives
Trickster tales
Animal tales
Tales
Great Depression
Ghosts
Supernatural legends
Fishing stories
Hunting stories
Arts, Haitian
Haitian Americans
African Americans
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Storytellers at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Storytelling Auditorium) (Saturday)
- Date
- 1994-05-28
- Description
- Six audio cassette recordings. Storytellers spoke between 10:00am and 2pm at the Storytelling Auditorium. The coordinator was Peggy Smith. (The Storytelling Tent area, coordinated by Nancy Case, and featuring some of the same storytellers, was not recorded.) Larkin, of Atlanta, spoke twice; the first time to fill in for the two absent storytellers: John Johnson and Margie Baldwin. Cappa, (of Williamsport, PA), Roy (of Fort Myers), and Rivers (of Ybor City) were audience members participating in the Cousin Thelma Story Swap. Harshbarger, of Tallahassee, used finger puppets in her presentation. Smith and Seaman were from Jacksonville. Louis resided in Miami.
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