a_s2029_01_tape06 | Alfredo Gallegos interview for the Mexican American Music Survey | Sound | Field recordings Interviews Occupational folkore Radio employees Radio Mexican Americans Hispanic Americans Broadcasters | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s2034_07_cd07-046 | Carl Sharp reading poetry & Mestengo performance at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage | sound | Folk festivals Florida Folk Festival Music -- Performance Mexican Americans Norteño (Music) Accordion music Conjunto music Cowboys -- Poetry Cowboys -- Florida Florida Crackers Poetry reading | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Carl Sharp reading poetry & Mestengo performance at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage
- Date
- 2007-11-11
- Description
- Annette Fromm serves as emcee. Sharp reads a cowboy poem. Granado (accordion, vocals), J. Martinez (drums, vocals), Arrazola (bajo sexto, vocals), and Martinez (bass, vocals) perform as Mestengo. Granado explains their fusion of música norteña and Tejano/Tex-Mex; the genre's origins in northern Mexico; the influence of Polish and German musical styles and instrumentation, primarily the polka and the accordion; and technical aspects of the accordion and bajo sexto. The band plays a cumbia, ranchera, bolero, and huapango.
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a_s1624_03_tape05 | Chevere Chicano and Unimex performance at the La Primavera Festival | Sound | Fieldwork Festivals Latinos Arts, Mexican Mexican Americans Concerts Performing arts Music performance Music Singing Bands (Music) Musical groups Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Chevere Chicano and Unimex performance at the La Primavera Festival
- Date
- 1992-03-08
- Description
- In 1992, the Palm Beach Community College contracted the Florida Folklife Program to conduct ten days of fieldwork in March 1992 around Lake Okeechobee for a Lakefront Legacy Festival later that year (16 May 1992). Headed up by FFP folklorist Debbie Fant, and assisted by Robert Stone and Robert Shanafelt, the fieldwork involved 26 informants, slides, print images and recorded interviews. In the end, the FFP recommended seven people for festival participation.
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Cinco de Mayo Festival in Immokalee | Cinco de Mayo Festival in Immokalee | Still Image | Singers Ballet dancers Musicians Festivals Fieldwork Cinco de Mayo (Mexican holiday) Special events Performing arts Music performance Holidays and festivals Ballet Dancers Mexican Americans Arts, Mexican Latinos Community concerts Bands (Music) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cinco de Mayo Festival in Immokalee
- Date
- 1996-05-04
- Description
- two proof sheets with 49 black and images (plus negatives). The Mexican American Music Survey was created to document the musical traditions of Florida's various Mexican-American communities: Apopka, South Dade County, Immokalee, the St. Johns River Basin, and Central Florida. Funded by a grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Community Folklife Program, the survey was conducted between 1994 and 1996 by folklorist Robert Stone. Among the musical traditions were serenatas, conjunto, quinceanara ritual music, ranchera Michoacana, mariachi, norteno, Tejano, and pop music. At the end of the project, a sampler music tape was created by the Florida Folklife Program for distribution to various libraries.
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Cinco de Mayo Festival in Immokalee | Cinco de Mayo Festival in Immokalee | Still Image | Singers Ballet dancers Musicians Festivals Fieldwork Cinco de Mayo (Mexican holiday) Special events Performing arts Music performance Holidays and festivals Ballet Dancers Mexican Americans Arts, Mexican Latinos Community concerts Bands (Music) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cinco de Mayo Festival in Immokalee
- Date
- 1996-05-04
- Description
- 108 color slides. The Mexican American Music Survey was created to document the musical traditions of Florida's various Mexican-American communities: Apopka, South Dade County, Immokalee, the St. Johns River Basin, and Central Florida. Funded by a grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Community Folklife Program, the survey was conducted between 1994 and 1996 by folklorist Robert Stone. Among the musical traditions were serenatas, conjunto, quinceanara ritual music, ranchera Michoacana, mariachi, norteno, Tejano, and pop music. At the end of the project, a sampler music tape was created by the Florida Folklife Program for distribution to various libraries.
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Concert at T.G. Music Store | Concert at T.G. Music Store | Still Image | Fieldwork Mexican Americans Latinos Arts, Mexican Performing arts Music performance Norteño music Concerts Stores, retail Specialty stores Singers Bands (Music) Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Concert at T.G. Music Store
- Date
- 1994-11-13
- Description
- Twenty color slides. Concert by several local bands at T.G. Music Store (owned by Tomas Granado). The Mexican American Music Survey was created to document the musical traditions of Florida's various Mexican-American communities: Apopka, South Dade County, Immokalee, the St. Johns River Basin, and Central Florida. Funded by a grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Community Folklife Program, the survey was conducted between 1994 and 1996 by folklorist Robert Stone. Among the musical traditions were serenatas, conjunto, quinceanara ritual music, ranchera Michoacana, mariachi, norteno, Tejano, and pop music. At the end of the project, a sampler music tape was created by the Florida Folklife Program for distribution to various libraries.
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Concert at T.G. Music Store | Concert at T.G. Music Store | Still Image | Fieldwork Mexican Americans Latinos Arts, Mexican Performing arts Music performance Norteño music Concerts Stores, retail Specialty stores Singers Bands (Music) Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Concert at T.G. Music Store
- Date
- 1994-11-13
- Description
- Two proof sheets with 50 black and white image s(plus negatives). Concert by several local bands at T.G. Music Store (owned by Tomas Granado). The Mexican American Music Survey was created to document the musical traditions of Florida's various Mexican-American communities: Apopka, South Dade County, Immokalee, the St. Johns River Basin, and Central Florida. Funded by a grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Community Folklife Program, the survey was conducted between 1994 and 1996 by folklorist Robert Stone. Among the musical traditions were serenatas, conjunto, quinceanara ritual music, ranchera Michoacana, mariachi, norteno, Tejano, and pop music. At the end of the project, a sampler music tape was created by the Florida Folklife Program for distribution to various libraries.
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a_s1714_reel20 | Conjunto Azteca Tropical | Sound | Fieldwork Sound recording Arts, Mexican Mexican Americans Latinos Cumbia Musicians Bands (Music) Musical groups | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Conjunto Azteca Tropical
- Date
- 1985-02-08
- Description
- Three audio reels. Recording of Conjunto Azteca Tropical performing. In winter 1985, the Bureau contracted with two folklorists to conduct a folk arts survey of the St. Johns River basin in northeastern Florida. The St. Johns River is the largest and most used river in Florida, supporting much river commerce as well as a modest amount of commercial fishing. Folklorists Mary Anne McDonald and Kathleen Figgen conducted the survey from January through March 1985 under the direction of Folklife Coordinator Blanton Owen and Bureau Chief Ormond Loomis. Documentation compiled in the survey was used to prepare and present the 'St. Johns River Basin Folklife Area' at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival.
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a_s1624_03_tape07 | Conjunto Primavera and Los Rivales del Norte performing at the La Primavera Festival | Sound | Fieldwork Festivals Latinos Arts, Mexican Mexican Americans Concerts Performing arts Music performance Music Singing Bands (Music) Musical groups Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Conjunto Primavera and Los Rivales del Norte performing at the La Primavera Festival
- Date
- 1992-03-08
- Description
- In 1992, the Palm Beach Community College contracted the Florida Folklife Program to conduct ten days of fieldwork in March 1992 around Lake Okeechobee for a Lakefront Legacy Festival later that year (16 May 1992). Headed up by FFP folklorist Debbie Fant, and assisted by Robert Stone and Robert Shanafelt, the fieldwork involved 26 informants, slides, print images and recorded interviews. In the end, the FFP recommended seven people for festival participation.
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a_s1622_03_tape05 | Disatre performance at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church Annual Carnival | Sound | Bands (Music) Music ensembles Field recordings Mexican Americans Music -- Performance Performing arts Religious festivals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |