a_s1576_01_c77-007 | Interview and music performance with blues singer (Blind) Johnny Brown | Sound | Interviewing Interviews Oral histories Blues (Music) African Americans Guitar Guitar music Guitarists Life histories Religious music Religious songs Gospel (Black) Music performance Guitarist Blues singers Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview and music performance with blues singer (Blind) Johnny Brown
- Date
- 1977-01-18
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Recorded at the Neighborly Center in St. Petersburg. Brown talks about his life and music in between playing religious and blues songs. A previous interview and performance was recorded on tape C77-9. For an interview conducted a year later, see reels T78-316 and T78-317.
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a_s1576_01_c77-009 | Interview and music performance with blues singer (Blind) Johnny Brown | Sound | Interviewing Interviews Oral histories Blues (Music) African Americans Guitar Guitar music Guitarists Life histories Religious music Religious songs Gospel (Black) Music performance Guitarist Blues singers Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_01_c77-011 | Bill Butler interview | Sound | Interviewing Interviews Performers Performing arts Oral narratives Life histories Jamaican Americans Parades African Americans Bands (Music) Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Bill Butler interview
- Date
- 1977-01-25
- Description
- One audio cassette. Recorded at Butler's Key West home. Butler discusses the woman who formed the band; the instruments he plays; the kind of music the band plays; playing for funerals and parades; nicknames for people in the band; the origins of the band's name; and discusses his brother and father.
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a_s1576_18_c86-042 | Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar | Sound | Educators Teacher Conferences and seminars series Seminars Workshops (Adult education) Teaching of folklore Interviewing Teachers Fieldwork (educational method) Education Folklife Publishers and publishing Oral history Oral tradition Editing Writing Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar
- Date
- 1986-05-14
- Description
- Five audio cassettes. Recordings of a seminar regarding teaching folklore in the class room (in the previous years, the seminars were called Folklife in the Classroom Teachers Seminar.) The theme dealt with field research and publishing. The keynote speaker was George Reynolds, author/editor of the Foxfire books. He spoke, along with some of his students, on research, interviewing, editing, and publishing as an educational tool.
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a_s1576_21_c86-141 | Captain Jake Stone interview for Fishing All My Days | Sound | Net maker Field recordings Interviews Life histories Personal experience narratives Interviewing Fishing nets Netmaking Seafood gathering Seafood industry Selling seafood Oral history Fishing Equipment and supplies Fishing Fishers Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Captain Jake Stone interview for Fishing All My Days
- Date
- 1984-08-10
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Audio does not start immediately. C86-143: Capt. Jake Stone discusses his early years in shrimping, 1947-1948; his first shrimp boat was the "Jim Dozier"; tells fishing story; discusses shrimping in the present day - differences; family background; shrimp boats he's run; New Smyrna, Florida as "shrimping Mecca"; modern shrimping ports; communication; "heading" shrimp stories; shrimping as a family business; superstitions among fishermen; "oil drip" story; shrimp captain, "Gator Pierce"; fisherman, Ralph Weatherly; fishing territories; electric reels; net-making; old-time net-maker, Anchor Damgard; fisherman, Johnny McDonald; tells fishing and shrimping stories throughout tape. C86-141: Captain Stone discusses various aspects of shrimping and netmaking such as the types of nets he made ("Jubilee" nets, "Joe Lucas" nets, and "Brownie" nets); innovations in his net-making; intricacies of net-making and how they work; seasonal runs of shrimp; decreasing catches of shrimp and rising prices; legends of shark feeding; younger generation's lack of interest in net making; modern shrimping vs. shrimping when Capt. Stone was younger. Interview conducted during fieldwork for video documentary on Florida shrimping called Fishing All My Days, and was made by the Florida Folklife Program, and the University of Florida (WUFT-TV). A transcript of the interview can be found in S 1579, box 1, folder: "C86-99 through C86-149."
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a_s1576_25_c88-030 | Interview with English professor Guy Miles | Sound | College teachers Educators Fieldwork Interviews Interviewing Collecting Folklore collections Family history Oral histories Personal experience narratives Audiotape recordings Life histories Regional dialects Sound recordings Recording equipment | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with English professor Guy Miles
- Date
- 1988-09-16
- Description
- One audio cassette. Guy Miles was a professor of English at the University of Florida from 1957 to 1972 and was an authority on southern folklife. He was born in Dresden, Tennessee in 1908 and served in the Air Force during World War II. In 1959, he and his wife Faye bought a farm in Evinston, a small community about fifteen miles south of Gainesville, near Cross Creek. In 1967, one of their neighbors in Evinston, an elderly African American woman named Eliza Washington, asked Guy to set down what she wanted the community to know about her when she died. Guy recorded her and later used her words at her funeral service. Subsequently, Guy and several of his students started recording the "talk" of local people, launching a project that was to last twenty years and generate over 700 reel-to-reel tapes. Miles was interested in recording the folklife of people through their own telling of their experiences, in the way people really said it. He recorded several main "talkers" from 1967 to 1987, providing a wealth of information on the country life of the area past and present, and relating the values, beliefs, and world view of the community through individual expression. In the interview, Miles talks about his research, his audio recordings collection, fieldwork techniques, and his life history. Miles passed away in November of 1988. The Guy Miles Collection (S 1709) consists of 727 reel to reel recordings of Miles' interviews with local residents. They have also been copied on to CDs as well as .wav files, available for public use in the Florida State Archives research room.
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a_s1576_67_c97-063 | Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3) | Sound | Wood carvers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Oral performance Life histories Interviewing Wood carving Storytelling Wood craft Woodworking tools Native Americans Decorative arts Woodwork Carvers (Decorative artists) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
a_s1576_67_c97-064 | Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4) | Sound | Artisans Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Oral performance Life histories Interviewing Calligraphy Writing Paper art Paper work Arts, Jewish Jewish Americans Decorative arts Jewish art and symbolism | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
a_s1576_67_c97-065 | Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5) | Sound | Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Oral performance Life histories Interviewing African Americans Art Religious art Art and religion Artists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
a_s1576_67_c97-066 | Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 6) | Sound | Storytellers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Oral performance Life histories Interviewing Seminole Indians Art Storytelling Tales Native Americans Creation Mythology Artists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |