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Eddie Johnson interview

Date: 1984-01-27
Description: Johnson, a quartet singer, describes his early childhood and his family's move from Georgia to Florida in 1927; early jobs; early involvement with gospel singing through church; remembers such groups as the Bright Star Jubilee Singers, Stars of Harmony, and Sons of Daniel; singing with the Spiritual Harmonizers; the Florida Nightingales; his family; work as a manager of singing groups; radio program in Coral Gables; Henry Stone, who recorded his group, the Suwannee Quintet.
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Eddie Johnson interview

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Date: 1998-05-22
Description: One digital audio tape (DAT).
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Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)

Date: 1998-05-22
Description: One digital audio tape (DAT).
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Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Date: 1998-05-22
Description: One digital audio tape (DAT).
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Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)

Date: 1998-05-22
Description: One digital audio tape (DAT). The following tapes -- D98-28 through D98-29 -- are blank. They were set aside for use on 22 May 1998, but were not needed.
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Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 10)

Date: 1996-05-24
Description: One audio cassette tape. Kerchmar served as emcee. Melitón and Martha Perdomo perform Cuban decimas: sample decimas by José Donates, Melitón Perdomo, and Asbies Benites (who is 12 years old). Ann Browning Masters recites new poems honoring Minorcans and more. Masters poetry continues on C96-58.
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Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 10)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)

Date: 1996-05-24
Description: One audio cassette tape. Kerchmar served as emcee. Liliane Louis, Haitian storyteller, talks about the history of stories and tells: "The Smart-Ugly Student" and "The Charcoal Man". Sally Jones discusses her child hood in the White Springs area and talks about African-American culture, self-sufficiency and farming processes. Jones talk continues on C96-50.
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Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Date: 1996-05-24
Description: One audio cassette tape. Kerchmar served as emcee. Sally Jones discusses quilting and answers questions about her father and handling mules. Dr. Jesse Truvillion discusses African-American family lore, "Texas Big Thicket, African-American folk music, preserving his father's recordings, recordings by John Lomax and a pitch chant to work to. Trullion talk continues on C96-51.
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Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Hallan Daphnis interview

Date: 1981-08-17
Description: One audio cassette. Daphnis, a radio announcer for the Compas Creole radio show, discusses why he immigrated to the United States; his education in the U.S.; his work with the H.A.C.A.D., Haitian American Community Association of Dade; the Little Havana neighborhood; traditional celebrations; Haitian folk music; the similarities between Little Haiti in Miami and Haiti itself; trends in Haitian immigration to the U.S.; negative stories put out by the media about Haitians, especially regarding voodoo; the arts and Haitian artists; local Haitian restaurants in Little Haiti, etc. Copied from T81-80, though the reel is missing
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Hallan Daphnis interview

Harriett Mosley oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival

Date: 1990-01-27
Description: One audio cassette. Mosley talks about her life, community life in Eatonville, and Zora Neale Hurston. Nusz conducted several interviews for the first Zora Neale Hurston Festival held at the end of January of 1990.
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Harriett Mosley oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival

	Identifier	Title	Type	Subject
a_s1576_12_c84-006	Eddie Johnson interview	Sound	Field recordings Life histories Interviews Oral narratives African Americans Gospel music	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_78_d98-024	Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)	Sound	Dancers Musicians Fiddlers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Fiddling Fiddle music Indian Americans Indian dance Indian arts Personal experience narratives Arts, Irish Irish Americans Life histories Folklorists	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_78_d98-025	Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)	Sound	Carvers (Decorative artists) Wood carvers Artists Flower arrangers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Personal experience narratives Life histories Fijian Americans Arts, Fiji Arts, Japanese Flower arrangement, Japanese Japanese Americans Arts, Asian Asian Americans Folklorists	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_78_d98-026	Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)	Sound	Artists Needleworkers Quiltmakers Musicians Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Personal experience narratives Life histories Tongan Americans Quilting Indian Americans Indian arts Chinese Americans Arts, Asian Asian Americans Folklorists Arts, Chinese Textile arts	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_78_d98-027	Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)	Sound	Artists Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Personal experience narratives Life histories Russian Americans Arts, Russian Flower arrangement, Japanese Arts, Asian Asian Americans Arts, Japanese Japanese Americans Flower arrangers Priests	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_63_c96-057	Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 10)	Sound	Poets Dancers Singers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Oral narratives Personal experience narratives Life histories Arts, Cuban Latinos Music Latin America Cuban Americans Minorcan Americans Poetry Poetic language Children	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_63_c96-049	Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)	Sound	Storytellers Farmers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Oral narratives Personal experience narratives Life histories Local history Family farming African Americans Farm life Arts, Haitian Storytelling Haitian Americans Family history	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_63_c96-050	Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)	Sound	Storytellers Needleworkers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Oral narratives Personal experience narratives Life histories Local history Quilting African Americans Needlework Folklore collections Storytelling Folklorists	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_06_c81-051a	Hallan Daphnis interview	Sound	Field recordings Haitian Americans Emigration and immigration Arts, Haitian Radio broadcasters Radio announcing Interviews Latinos Life histories Oral histories	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_38_tape16	Harriett Mosley oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival	Sound	Field recordings Interviews African Americans Oral histories Oral narratives Life histories Community culture Family history	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg

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Eddie Johnson interview

Eddie Johnson interview

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 10)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 10)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Hallan Daphnis interview

Hallan Daphnis interview

Harriett Mosley oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival

Harriett Mosley oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival

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Eddie Johnson interview

Eddie Johnson interview

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 10)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 10)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Hallan Daphnis interview

Hallan Daphnis interview

Harriett Mosley oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival

Harriett Mosley oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival