| a_s1576_t82-052 | Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project | Sound | Basket maker
Needleworkers
Dollmakers
Fieldwork
Native Americans
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Basket making
Interviewing
Interviews
Sound recordings
Sweetgrass baskets
Oral histories
Life histories
Family history
Palmetto weaving
Plants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project
- Date
- 1981-11-19
- Description
- One reel to reel. The Osceolas discuss basket making - - including when and how they learned the craft; patterns and designs; the choice of colors and materials (usually pine needles and/or palmetto fronds); teaching the young; selling baskets; and the basketry process. The recordings were created for the Florida Folklife Program's Seminole Slide and Tape Project, a program sponsored by the American Express Company in 1982-1983 to create two educational slide/tape programs for use by schools, community groups, and other educational outlets. One program dealt with sweetgrass basket making; the other on traditional Seminole patchwork. Recordings of the finished program tapes can be found in S 1576, Box 10. Teacher guides, program scripts, and documentation of the project can be found in S 1595, Box 1.
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| 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_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_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_c77-007 | 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_t78-316 | Interview and music performance with blues singer (Blind) Johnny Brown | Sound | Interviewing
Interviews
Music performance
Blues (Music)
African Americans
Guitar
Guitar music
Guitarists
Religious music
Religious songs
Gospel (Black)
Fieldwork
Guitarist
Blues singers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t78-320 | Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams | Sound | Interviewing
Interviews
Music performance
Blues (Music)
African Americans
Diddly bow
String instruments
Life histories
Oral histories
Personal experience narratives
Minstrel shows
Clowns
Traveling shows
Guitarist
Blues singers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams
- Date
- 1978-04-22
- Description
- Two reel to reel recordings. Williams was born 15 February 1919 in Itta Bena, Mississippi. After traveling with several acts in the 1930s/1940s, he moved to Florida to work the citrus groves. He always played the diddly bow, a one-string instrument played throughout that south that functioned as a primitive guitar. Moses talked about his songs; professional nicknames; the music business; working for the Silas Green Traveling Show as a clown; how he wrote his songs; performing on Beale Street in Memphis; and the history of blues music. In addition, Williams plays several of his songs. (The reels T81-16 and T81-17 may be a duplicate recording of this interview.)
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| a_s1576_t77-300 | Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams | Sound | Interviewing
Interviews
Music performance
Blues (Music)
African Americans
Diddly bow
String instruments
Life histories
Oral histories
Personal experience narratives
Guitarist
Blues singers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams
- Date
- 1977-11-27
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Williams was born 15 February 1919 in Itta Bena, Mississippi. After traveling with several acts in the 1930s/1940s, he moved to Florida to work the citrus groves. He always played the diddly bow, a one-string instrument played throughout that south that functioned as a primitive guitar. Moses talked about playing the diddly (for this recording, he hung a broom wire from the wall); performing with Sonny Boy Williams; and his life history. He played several songs. NOTE: According to the depositor's agreement, any commercial use of this recording must be cleared by Moses Williams or Dwight Devane.
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| a_s1576_t78-322 | Interview and music performance with fiddlers Horace Fletcher and Robert Blackwelder | Sound | Interviewing
Interviews
Old time music
Fieldwork
Fiddle music
Fiddling
String instruments
Life histories
Oral histories
Personal experience narratives
Reels
Dance music
Fiddlers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview and music performance with fiddlers Horace Fletcher and Robert Blackwelder
- Date
- 1978-04-22
- Description
- Two reel to reel recordings. Blackwelder began fiddling at 18, a self-taught musician. Born in 1910 in Bradford County, he was in the citrus business. His influences included Chubby Wise and Broward Green. In the recordings, Blackwelder discusses his life and fiddling styles. He plays several fiddle tunes.
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| a_s1576_t86-066 | Interview with and performance by Haitian singer-composer Kiki Wainwright | Sound | Fieldwork
Haitian Americans
Composers
African Americans
Music
Performing arts
Calypso music
Music business
Interviewing
Interviews
Oral histories
Music performance
Musicians
Social workers
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with and performance by Haitian singer-composer Kiki Wainwright
- Date
- 1985-08-04
- Description
- Two reel to reel tapes. (Copied onto C86-108/109) Interview with Wainwright. He discusses dancing and singing in Haiti; forming in a dance troupe; his career in Miami; writing songs; and singers in Haiti. Also includes Wainwright performing ten songs. NOTE: According to the depositor agreement, Wainwright's performances can not be used for commercial purposes. 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.
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Listen: The Bluegrass & Old-Time Program