| a_s1576_t77-139 | Saturday morning performances at the 1963 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Folk singers
Singing
Guitarists
Guitar music
Bands (Music)
Whipcracking
Fiddle music
Clogging
Clog dancing
Dance
Love songs
Birdsongs
Animal sounds
Oral performance
Singers
Students
Choruses
Rodeo performers
Whip maker
Dancers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t86-226 | WPA field recordings at Gainesville, Raiford, Panama City, and Jacksonville | Sound | Fieldwork
New Deal, 1933-1939
Interviews
Public service employment
Folklorists
Public welfare
United States. Work Projects Administration
Arts, Greek
Greek Americans
A capella singers
Performing arts
A capella singing
Music performance
Singing
Religious music
Religious songs
Musical tradition, sacred
Shape note singing
Church membership
Drinking songs
Love songs
Sea shanties
Play party songs
Musicians
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
WPA field recordings at Gainesville, Raiford, Panama City, and Jacksonville
- Date
- 1939-10-04
- Description
- One reel to reel. These recordings were created the Lomaxes and Morris of the University of Florida, assisted by workers of the Florida Writers Project (including photographer Robert Cook), in 1939 and 1949. Morris created 14 12-inch acetate records in total. On his 1939 trip, he recorded Greek singers in Jacksonville; in 1949, he recorded Sacred Harp singers in Gainesville, and local singers in Jacksonville and Panama City. The Lomax recordings are from a 1939 trip to the State Prison Farm in Raiford ("Job Job" was recorded in Livingston, Alabama). For more detailed information on the recordings, see S 1579, box 3, for copies of the original LOC indexes. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) - after 1939, the Works Projects Administration - was a work-relief program created in 1935 by the Roosevelt Administration that employed over 8.5 million people between 1935 and 1943. One of its programs was the Federal Writers Project (FWP), which included the Folklore Section. This section conducted fieldwork, recording songs, traditions, and stories across the nation. Originally created to gather material for the American Guide Series, but later emphasis was placed upon fieldwork for preservation of folk traditions for future use. In Florida, the FWP was based out of Jacksonville, and directed by historian Carita Doggett Corse. Folklorist Stetson Kennedy directed the Florida Folklife section. Seven recording expeditions were conducted in Florida. Two were conducted between 1935 and 1937, before the creation of the Florida Folklore Section: one by Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, and the other by John and Ruby Lomax. After 1939, five more were conducted by Florida's FWP staff: Kennedy, Hurston, Robert Cook, Alton Morris, Corse, Robert Cornwell, John Filareton, and Herbert Halpert (of the Joint Committee on Folk Art's Southern Recording Expedition.) Recording equipment was loaned to Florida's WPA program by the Library of Congress' Archive of the American Folk Song (later the American Folk Center). The field recordings were made on acetate disks, usually recorded at 78 rpm (although occasionally at 33 rpm). Because these disks were shipped from Washington DC to Florida, then to the recording site, and then back to Washington, these disks often were not of the highest sonic quality. Several had surface scratches and many had various recording speeds. In 1986, the FFP staff made copies of many of these recordings onto reel to reels for inclusion to the Florida Folklife Archive. The originals are still housed with the Library of Congress.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-225 | WPA field recordings at Jacksonville, Tarpon Springs, St. Augustine, and Slavia (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris) | Sound | Fieldwork
New Deal, 1933-1939
Interviews
Public service employment
Folklorists
Public welfare
United States. Work Projects Administration
Arts, Greek
Greek Americans
A capella singers
Performing arts
A capella singing
Music performance
Singing
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakian Americans
Songs, Greek
Songs, Slavic
Minorcans
Minorcan Americans
Love songs
Christmas music
Carols
Musicians
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
WPA field recordings at Jacksonville, Tarpon Springs, St. Augustine, and Slavia (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris)
- Date
- 1939-08-26
- Description
- One reel to reel. These recordings were created by Morris of the University of Florida, assisted by workers of the Florida Writers Project (including photographer Robert Cook), in 1939 and 1940. He created 14 12-inch acetate records in total. On this recording, Morris recorded Greek singers in Tarpon Springs and Jacksonville, Minorcans in St. Augustine, and unidentified singers from the Czechoslovakian community of Slavia, founded in 1911. For more detailed information on the recordings, see S 1579, box 3, for copies of the original LOC indexes. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) – after 1939, the Works Projects Administration – was a work-relief program created in 1935 by the Roosevelt Administration that employed over 8.5 million people between 1935 and 1943. One of its programs was the Federal Writers Project (FWP), which included the Folklore Section. This section conducted fieldwork, recording songs, traditions, and stories across the nation. Originally created to gather material for the American Guide Series, but later emphasis was placed upon fieldwork for preservation of folk traditions for future use. In Florida, the FWP was based out of Jacksonville, and directed by historian Carita Doggett Corse. Folklorist Stetson Kennedy directed the Florida Folklife section. Seven recording expeditions were conducted in Florida. Two were conducted between 1935 and 1937, before the creation of the Florida Folklore Section: one by Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, and the other by John and Ruby Lomax. After 1939, five more were conducted by Florida’s FWP staff: Kennedy, Hurston, Robert Cook, Alton Morris, Corse, Robert Cornwell, John Filareton, and Herbert Halpert (of the Joint Committee on Folk Art’s Southern Recording Expedition.) Recording equipment was loaned to Florida’s WPA program by the Library of Congress’ Archive of the American Folk Song (later the American Folk Center). The field recordings were made on acetate disks, usually recorded at 78 rpm (although occasionally at 33 rpm). Because these disks were shipped from Washington DC to Florida, then to the recording site, and then back to Washington, these disks often were not of the highest sonic quality. Several had surface scratches and many had various recording speeds. In 1986, the FFP staff made copies of many of these recordings onto reel to reels for inclusion to the Florida Folklife Archive. The originals are still housed with the Library of Congress.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-006 | Friday performances at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage) (Reel 6) | Sound | Musicians
Singers
Guitarist
Composer
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Folk singers
Guitar music
Guitarists
Florida history
Performing arts
Singing
Old time music
Banjo music
Banjoists
Love songs
Humor | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t80-006 | Saturday morning performances at the 1978 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2) | Sound | Singers
Bands (Music)
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Dancers
Bagpipes
Bagpipe music
Boy Scouts
Storytelling
Whipcracking
Demonstrations
Ballads
Love songs
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Saturday morning performances at the 1978 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2)
- Date
- 1978-05-27
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. At the time, Flemming was the president of board of trustees for the Stephen Foster Center. He was from Dade City. The Crawfords were from Jacksonville. Lydia and the Pinkhams, from Lakeland, consisted of: Mike Osteen (harmonica), Peggy Burr (bass), Barbara Smith (guitar), and Tricia Conner (dulcimer).
- Collection
| a_s1576_t81-054 | Sunday performances at the 1981 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 5) | Sound | Singers
Musicians
Bands (Music)
Pianists
Fiddlers
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
English songs
Songs, Irish
Religious songs
String bands
Stringband music
Love songs
Ballads | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Sunday performances at the 1981 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 5)
- Date
- 1981-05-24
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. The start of Rose's performance can be found on T81-53. He was from Gainesville. Moore was from Jacksonville, and the Frogmore Mountain Boys were from Beaufort, S.C. The Hyde Park Hysterical Society String Band were from Tampa. McKinney played fiddle, and Douglas the piano.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t77-272 | Recording of singer Betsy Stafford (date unknown) | Sound | Singing
Love songs
Old time music
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t77-267 | Self-recording of Sam Eskin: Music, Songs, Ballads | Sound | Singing
Ballads
Folk singers
Love songs
Sea songs
Sea shanteys
Music performance
Performing arts
Singers
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Self-recording of Sam Eskin: Music, Songs, Ballads
- Date
- 1963-07-21
- Description
- One reel to reel. (Duplicated on T77-267B) A self-made recording by Eskin; sent to Thelma Boltin, then director of the Florida Folk Festival. Eskin, born to Russian-Jewish parents in Washington, D.C. in 1898, was a self-educated folklorist who collected and published songs from across the world. During the 1940s and 1950s, Eskin embarked on several recording trips in the United States and elsewhere. In 1951, he produced an album with Folkways Records entitled: Sea Shanties and Logger's Songs. Today, his collection of recordings, transcripted songs, and original compositions is housed with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
- Collection
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