| a_s1576_67_c97-070 | Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 10) | Sound | Artisans
Artists
Musicians
Guitarist
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Oral performance
Life histories
Interviewing
Arts, Jewish
Jewish Americans
Jewish art and symbolism
Ketubah
Calligraphy
Marriage contracts
Decorative arts
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Paper art
African Americans
Steel guitars
Musical tradition, sacred
Gospel (Black)
Gospel musicians
Gospel music | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 10)
- Date
- 1997-05-23
- Description
- One audio cassette recordings. Side A: Catalina Delgado, a trunk and Mexican paper artist and Eileen Brautman, a Jewish paper artist are interviewed by Laurie Sommers. Delgado discusses paper-cutting techniques and how designs are made. Brautman explains traditional and contemporary calligraphy and paper cutting according to the European tradition. She tells of making stories from the Bible, use of animals and other designs and the making of a Ketubah (Jewish marriage contract). Side B: Sonny Treadway (Deerfield Beach, FL), sacred steel guitarist is interviewed by Laurie Sommers. He discusses sacred steel guitar and gospel music as well as his musical influences such as his father, other family members and church musicians. He plays by ear and has written several original songs.
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| a_s1640_23_tape15 | Interview with pinata maker Victoria Grimm | Sound | Artisans
Fieldwork
Interviews
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Latinos
Pinatas | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1640_20_tape13 | Interview with pinata maker Viki Grimm | Sound | Artisans
Apprentices
Pinatas
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Interviews
Decorative arts
Craft
Life histories
Arts, Mexican
Ethnicity, Mexico
Mexican Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with pinata maker Viki Grimm
- Date
- 1986-04-22
- Description
- One audio casette. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
- Collection
| Mexican pinatas made by Victoria Grimm and her apprentices | Mexican pinatas made by Victoria Grimm and her apprentices | Still Image | Artisans
Apprentices
Pinatas
Arts, Mexican
Ethnicity, Mexico
Mexican Americans
Decorative arts
Decoration and ornament
Paper art
Paper work | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Mexican pinatas made by Victoria Grimm and her apprentices
- Date
- 1986-05-02
- Description
- Seven color slides. Grimm's apprentices were Maria Garza and Raquel Herrera. Grimm, born in Mexico City, learned to make pinatas from her family. She made two types: ones made completely of papier-mache, and ones with clay pots covered in papier-mache. Pinatas were used during posada celebrations, Mexican Christmas traditions that was observed the nine days before the holiday to represent Mary and Joseph's trek to Bethlehem. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
- Collection
| Victoria Grimm and her apprentices with their pinatas | Victoria Grimm and her apprentices with their pinatas | Still Image | Artisans
Apprentices
Pinatas
Decorative arts
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Latinos
Papier-mache | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Victoria Grimm and her apprentices with their pinatas
- Date
- 1987-01-28
- Description
- Two proof sheets with 33 black and white images (plus negatives). Grimm's apprentices were Maria Garza and Raquel Herrera. Grimm, born in Mexico City, learned to make pinatas from her family. She made two types: ones completely of papier-mache, and ones with clay pots covered in papier-mache. Pinatas were used during the posada celebrations, a Mexican Christmas tradition that was observed the nine days before the holiday to represent Mary and Joseph's trek to Bethlehem. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
- Collection
| 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 |
| Images of the Fiesta La Primavera in Moore Haven | Images of the Fiesta La Primavera in Moore Haven | Still Image | Bands (Music)
Musical groups
Fieldwork
Festivals
Latinos
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Concerts
Performing arts
Music performance
Dance
Singing
Clothing and dress
Community culture
Social gatherings
Folk dance
Dancers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Images of the Fiesta La Primavera in Moore Haven
- Date
- 1992-03-08
- Description
- 111 color slides. Images of the Fiesta La Primavera, including various Mexican American bands, a Florida-based Mexican dance group (Grupo Sevezz), and local Mexican American residents dancing. For recordings of the Festival, see S 1624, box 3, tapes 5-8. 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.
- Collection
| Les Errantes de China Nuevo Lun at a Mexican dance at the Quality Inn in Deland | Les Errantes de China Nuevo Lun at a Mexican dance at the Quality Inn in Deland | Still Image | Bands (Music)
Fieldwork
Music performance
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Musical instruments
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1576_t86-079 | Recordings of the Mexican Independence Day celebrations (El Grito) at Benito Juarez Park | Sound | Community culture
Rites and ceremonies
Holidays and festivals
Performers
Performing arts
Music performance
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Mariachi
Ethnicity, Mexico
Folk music Mexico
Polka music
Bands (Music)
Musical groups
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Recordings of the Mexican Independence Day celebrations (El Grito) at Benito Juarez Park
- Date
- 1985-09-15
- Description
- Three reel to reel tapes (also on C86-121, C86-122 and C86-123) Recordings of music performances at the El Grito, the performance kick-off for Mexican Independence Day. Familia Mora Arriaga plays ranchera and mariachi music. Quinto Poder plays cumbias, polkas, and corridos. While the event celebrated actually occurred on 16 September 1810, most Mexican American communties begin observations on the 15 September with an El Grito -- a celebration featuring parades, music, and dancing. The Metro-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_s1714_04_tape63 | Interview with Prudenciana Gomez on Mexican American foodways | Sound | Cooks
Farm workers
Fieldwork
Research methods
Interviewing
Oral narratives
Latinos
Ethnicity, Mexico
Mexican Americans
Interviews
Sound recording
Cookery, Mexican
Mexican American cookery | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Prudenciana Gomez on Mexican American foodways
- Date
- 1985-03-07
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with Prudencia Gomez on Mexican American foodways and religion. She and her family work on fern farms (herba is Spanish for fern), which were used by Mexican families for food. The interview is in Spanish. Images of the interview can be found in S 1577, v. 27, images 1633-1641. 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.
- Collection
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