| a_s1685_05_tape34 | Interview with Washboard Bill Cooke on entertainment in Florida | Sound | Singers
Storytellers
Fieldwork
Interviews
African Americans
Sound recordings
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Juke joints
Music business
Storytelling
Music performance
Minstrel shows
Trains
Jokes
Blackface entertainers
Entertainers
Florida history
Occupational groups
Television
Theater
Theatrical makeup
Racism
Racial segregation
Advertising
African Americans Segregation
Motion picture theaters
Vaudeville
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Washboard Bill Cooke on entertainment in Florida
- Date
- 1987-08-18
- Description
- One audio cassette. Recorded at his home. Cooke discusses black entertainment in Florida. Born in Dupont, just south of St. Augustine, on 4 July, Cooke worked as a street performer, a jook joint musician, a nightclub entertainer, and a railway worker. His mother ran a jook joint, where he was first exposed to music and dance. In the interviews, he discusses jook joints; Florida minstrel acts such as Florida Blossom, Rabbit Foot, and Silas Green; black vaudeville in Florida; Ringling Brothers circus; segregation in theaters and entertainment; blackface; national entertainers he knew such as Amos and Andy, Step'n Fetchit, and Al Jolson; racism in advertising; and Pullman Porters he knew. In 1956, he made a recording with Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry called Washboard Country Band. In 1992, he won the Florida Folk Heritage Award. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. 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, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
- Collection
| 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.
- Collection
| 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.
- Collection
| 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 |
| a_s1576_t82-038 | Performance of an old-time medicine show | Sound | Fieldwork
Medicine shows
Music performance
Performances
Comedy
Singing
Pianists
Performing arts
Piano music
Traveling shows
Jokes
Magic tricks
Performers
Entertainers
Comedians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Performance of an old-time medicine show
- Date
- 1982-01-31
- Description
- Four reel to reels. Copied onto audiocassettes C83-29, C83-30, C83-31, and C83-32. Some material from the performance was used for the public radio program, Florida Home: Showtown USA. Copy of the programs can be found on C85-14.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-101 | Recording of a performance and interview with vaudeville performers Harry and Lillian Kalikow | Sound | Fieldwork
Vaudeville
Performing arts
Sound recordings
Performances
Comedy
Music
Jokes
Piano music
Singing
Songs
Singers
Jewish Americans
Russian Americans
Interviews
Interviewing
Oral histories
Life histories
Comedians
Musicians
Performers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Recording of a performance and interview with vaudeville performers Harry and Lillian Kalikow
- Date
- 1985-08-28
- Description
- Three reel to reel tapes (also copied onto C86-140 and C86-57). A recording of Harry Kalikow with his wife, Lillian, on piano, performing vaudedille routines. Followed by an interview with both. Harry discussed learning vaudeville; getting started in the business; his career; examples of songs and jokes; and his move to Florida. Lillian discussed learning piano (by ear); playing for silent movies; and performing with Harry. Of Russian Jewish heritage, Harry Kalikow had been performing vaudeville since the age of 13. He moved to Miami in 1958 as a nightclub comedian. His act consisted of songs, jokes, and piano solos. 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.
- Collection
| a_s1576_15_c85-001 | Recordings of children folklore (Children's Folklore Area) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Oral performance
Storytellers
Storytelling
Tales
Performing arts
Students
Supernatural legends
Ghosts
Jokes
Oral narratives
Family history
Children | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Recordings of children folklore (Children's Folklore Area)
- Date
- 1985-05-24
- Description
- Four audio cassettes. Recordings of students and children telling stories (mostly ghost stories), riddles, rhymes, and games in the Children's Folklife Area. Because Friday was designated as Children's Day, a special area was set up to capture children's folklore. More recordings of children on that day can be found on C85-1 through C85-4, box 15, S 1576.
- Collection
| a_s1576_16_c85-021 | Recordings of children's folklore (Children's Folklore Area) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Oral performance
Storytellers
Storytelling
Tales
Performing arts
Students
Supernatural legends
Ghosts
Jokes
Oral narratives
Games
Hand-clapping games
Children | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Recordings of children's folklore (Children's Folklore Area)
- Date
- 1985-05-25
- Description
- Four audio cassettes. Recordings of students and children telling stories (mostly ghost stories), riddles, rhymes, and jokes in the Children's Folklife Area. Because Friday was designated as Children's Day, a special area was set up to capture children's folklore. More recordings of children on that day can be found on C85-21 through C85-24, box 16, S 1576.
- Collection
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