| a_s1576_22_c86-180 | Interview with blues singer Marie Buggs | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Blues (Music)
African Americans
Musical tradition, African diaspora
Music business
Music performance
Performing arts
Turpentine industry and trade
Singing
Juke joints
Jokes
Songs
Gospel songs
Blues singers
Entertainers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with blues singer Marie Buggs
- Date
- 1984-09-13
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Born in Deer Park, Florida, in a turpentine camp in 1918, Buggs learned blues from her uncle Blind Blake and blues records. She discusses learning the blues; life at a turpentine camp; juke joints; jokes from the time; various blues singers: W.C. Handy, Blind Blake, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Billie Holiday, and Bessie Smith; blues clubs in Jacksonville; performing in New York City and across Europe; meaning of the blues; various blues styles; reactions to the blues across the world; and performers she met. She also sings several blues songs throughout the interview. A second interview held a couple of months can be found on C86-182. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. 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, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
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| a_s1576_22_c86-182 | Interview with blues singer Marie Buggs | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Blues (Music)
African Americans
Musical tradition, African diaspora
Music business
Music performance
Performing arts
Turpentine industry and trade
Singing
Juke joints
Jokes
Songs
Gospel songs
Popular songs
Music industry
Nightclubs
Blues singers
Entertainers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with blues singer Marie Buggs
- Date
- 1984-11-08
- Description
- One audio cassette. Born in Deer Park, Florida, in a turpentine camp in 1918, Buggs learned blues from her uncle Blind Blake and blues records. Much of this interview is a repeat of an earlier one (see C86-180/181), also by David Taylor. Here in addition to her early life and career, Buggs discusses her father's work turpentining and bootlegging; fellow blues performers; learning drums and playing at clubs and strip joints; teaching strippers to dance; performing with Josephine Baker; risqué songs; working with comedians like Nipsy Russell and Red Foxx; minstrel shows; Jacksonville blues clubs; and audiences in Europe. Again, she sings many songs from her repertoire. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. 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, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
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| a_s1576_t82-022 | Interview with performer Wayne Murray | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Vaudeville
Burlesque (Theater)
Drama
Acting
Selling
Medicine shows
Carnivals
Performing arts
Carnival pitching
Jokes
Humor
Radio
Occupational folklore
Entertainers
Comedians
Actors | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with performer Wayne Murray
- Date
- 1982-01-07
- Description
Three reel to reels. Murray, an actor, carnival pitchman, and comic, discusses his career. Topics include jokes; Yiddish theater; acting; medicine shows; traveling theaters; comedians; pitching at carnivals and fairs; performing on the radio; moving to Florida in 1969; the differences between vaudeville and burlesque; and learning the craft. Provides several examples of his material. Copied onto audiocassettes C83-13, C83-14, and C83-15; as well as tapes 16 and 17 in box 40 of series 1576.
Material used for a public radio on traveling entertainment, a copy of which can be found on audiocassette C95-43.
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| a_s1576_t86-015 | Interview with vaudevillian Milt Ross | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviewing
Entertainment
Vaudeville
Oral narratives
Jewish Americans
Acting
Jokes
Theater
Singers
Family history
Yiddish language
Theater, Yiddish
Drama
Performers
Comedians
Entertainers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with vaudevillian Milt Ross
- Date
- 1985-08-02
- Description
- Two reel to reel tapes (Copied onto C86-58 and C86-59). Interview with vaudeville performer (singer/comedian/mimic) Milt Ross. He discusses his education in Jewish schools; his family background; being discovered in Miami at 15 by Al Jolson; travelling with Jolson; Yiddish theater; sources of material for his act; Miami night clubs; Martha Raye; cantorial work; George Jessel; and types of shows. The term vaudeville was an American word coined in the 1840s, and refers to a variety show comprised of a series of unconnected acts (singing, comedy, dancing, etc.). 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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| a_s1622_04_tape04 | Irish music demonstration for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project | Sound | Field recordings
Music -- Performance
Irish Americans
Meetings
Jokes
A capella singing
Songs
Social gatherings
Community culture
Community identity | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_11_c83-130 | Joe Klotz glass bottom boat tour at Silver Springs for the Big Bend Folklife Survey | Sound | Boat operators
Excursion boats
Boating
Tour guides
Tourism workers
Jokes
Occupational folklore
Springs
Field recordings
Ecotourism | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Joe Klotz glass bottom boat tour at Silver Springs for the Big Bend Folklife Survey
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One audio cassette. Klotz discusses various animals on the tour, such as pea foul, giraffes, monkeys, turkeys, ostriches, meat-eating birds; zebras, camels, sheep, and spider monkeys. In addition, he talks about special diets for certain species in wildlife refuges.
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| Lem Griffis telling a tall tale at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival | Lem Griffis telling a tall tale at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Oral performance
Performing arts
Tall tales
Storytelling
Speech events
Humor
Anecdotes
Comedy
Jokes
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1576_t87-105 | Liars Workshop performing at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Tales
Storytelling
Jokes
Tall tales
Singers
Guitarist
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_13_c84-063 | Louise Sanders telling stories and singing at Madison Elementary School (3rd graders) | Sound | Singers
Storytellers
Fieldwork
Schools
Classrooms
Children
Students
Demonstrations
Storytelling
Family history
Jokes
Life histories
Singing
Yodeling
Hand-clapping games | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Louise Sanders telling stories and singing at Madison Elementary School (3rd graders)
- Date
- 1983-10-12
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side A
Louise Sanders tells the student stories about her childhood such as going to school in a one-room schoolhouse; foods they ate; things her family did for entertainment; chores. She also tells rhymes and sings: "Folks Behold a Little Boy" and "Sunbonnet Sally"; tells tongue-twisters; Othella (student?) demonstrates a clapping game. Side B Louise Sanders sings: "I Took My Girl to a Resstaurant"; "Just Becky and Me"; "Dying Cowgirl"; yodels; tells story about her start in singing; tells a rooster joke; tells about her bottle.
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| a_s1576_t88-002 | Martin Crutchfield performing at the 1988 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) | Sound | Guitarist
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Musicians
Guitar music
Storytelling
Jokes
Folk singers
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
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