| a_s1576_t77-058 | Saturday morning performances at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Scouts and scouting
Jump rope rhymes
Local history
Dance
Dance music
Oral history
Singing
Storytelling
Oral narratives
Singers
Dancers
Storytellers
Children
Girl Scouts
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_17_c86-013 | Recordings of the Basement to Attic Conference | Sound | Fieldwork
Conferences and seminars series
Workshops (Adult education)
Research methods
Teaching of folklore
Education
Blues singers
Blues (Music)
Storytelling
Archaeology
Collecting
Folklore collections
Museums
Oral history
Oral tradition
Folklore
Folklife
Tales
Singing
Ethics
Ethnocentrism
Storytellers
Archaeologists
Anthropologists
Singers
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Recordings of the Basement to Attic Conference
- Date
- 1986-02-07
- Description
- 22 audio cassettes. (Tapes C86-22 through C86-34 are found in box 18.) A conference co-sponsored by the Florida Folklife Program and the Jacksonville Museum of Science and History that dealt with collecting and researching folklife and folklore. The recordings cover the various sessions, workshops, and keynote speakers that covered all aspects of folklife research. Speakers and topics included; What is folklore (Yerkovich/Loomis/Waterman); Reasons for collecting (Kennedy); Folklore (Bulger); archaeology (FSU professor Marrinnan); oral history (Waterman); ethnomusicology (Olsen); cultural geography (Lamme); Ethics in collecting (Kennedy/Foreman/Waterman/Olsen/Bulger); WPA collecting (Kennedy); education and folklore in schools (Nusz); Zora Neale Hurston (Reaver); Keynote speech on folklife collecting (Ives of Maine); technological issues (Walker/Young); and videotaping folklife (Larsen). In addition,. Marie Buggs, Judge Corbin, and Thelma sing and tell stories. For more information on topics, detailed tape indexes, see the index sheets located in S 1579, box 1, folder: "C86-1 through C86-98."
- Collection
| a_s1664_07_tape57 | Recording of the Florida Star Quilters Guild | Sound | Quiltmakers
Needleworkers
Fieldwork
Needlework
Domestic arts
Quilting
Quilts
Oral history
Sewing
Family history
Interviews
Life histories
Personal experience narratives | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Recording of the Florida Star Quilters Guild
- Date
- 1993-12-02
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Recording of the Florida Star Quilters Guild, a 12-membber Orlando-based quilting club that originated in the Winter Park shop, the Attic Trunk. Seven of the members were present for the interviews. They discuss different quilting styles (Hawaiian, family quilting,) men and quilting, family histories, and the origins of the group. The interview took place at the Orange County Historical Museum.
- Collection
| a_s1576_18_c86-042 | Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar | Sound | Educators
Teacher
Conferences and seminars series
Seminars
Workshops (Adult education)
Teaching of folklore
Interviewing
Teachers
Fieldwork (educational method)
Education
Folklife
Publishers and publishing
Oral history
Oral tradition
Editing
Writing
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar
- Date
- 1986-05-14
- Description
- Five audio cassettes. Recordings of a seminar regarding teaching folklore in the class room (in the previous years, the seminars were called Folklife in the Classroom Teachers Seminar.) The theme dealt with field research and publishing. The keynote speaker was George Reynolds, author/editor of the Foxfire books. He spoke, along with some of his students, on research, interviewing, editing, and publishing as an educational tool.
- Collection
| a_s1664_07_tape53 | Recording of Grupo Sevezz | Sound | Fieldwork
Musical groups
Arts, Mexican
Ethnicity, Mexico
Mexican Americans
Interviews
Oral history
Bands (Music)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Recording of Grupo Sevezz
- Date
- 1993-12-15
- Description
- One audio cassette. Sevezz was a six-member Mexican tropical band who usually perform salsa and cumvia music. Garcia was the group's leader, who arrived in Florida from Mexico in 1978. The band began performing around 1990. Garcia was the only member who spoke English, though all members were present. The interview was recorded at his home. For more information, see file in S 1664, box 5, folder 17.
- Collection
| a_s1640_25_tape19 | Kazuko Law and apprentice Ofuyu Forrest interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program | Sound | Fieldwork
Apprentices
Arts, Japanese
Japanese Americans
Arts, Asian
Asian Americans
Asian American arts
Dance
Interviews
Oral history
Personal experience narratives
Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Kazuko Law and apprentice Ofuyu Forrest interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program
- Date
- 1995-02-01
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Forrest was funded to learn from Law eight traditional Japanese dances. For more information, see S 1644, box 12, folder 4. 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, and then Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.
- Collection
| a_s1640_22_tape07 | Irene and Emelia Fernandez interview at the Florida Folk Festival | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Dance
Performing arts
Arts, Cuban
Cuban Americans
Latinos
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Comparsa tradition
Conga (dance)
Oral history
Family history
Costumes
Clothing and dress
Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Irene and Emelia Fernandez interview at the Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1991-05-25
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Emelia Fernandez and her daughter Irene discusses their lives and the comparsas tradition. Fernandez founded a comparsas dance troupe in Key West. Danny Acosta led the band that accompanied the dances. The Cuban dance has African roots, and is usually performed in long conga lines. Dancers dress in elaborate, ruffled outfits. The tradition began in Key West in 1938. Emelia herself arrived in Florida in 1959. She and her daughter Irene revived the dance tradition in the early 1990s. For images of their performance, see S 1577, v. 60, slides S92-557 - S92-567. 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 2004.
- Collection
| a_s1664_07_tape60 | Interview with storyteller Linda Chancey | Sound | Librarians
Interviews
Storytelling
Tales
Personal experience narratives
Narratives
Life histories
Fieldwork
Oral history
Family history
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with storyteller Linda Chancey
- Date
- 1993-12-16
- Description
- One audio cassette. Chancey was a librarian and storyteller. She discusses her childhood, her library work, adapting stories for audiences, and tells two stories. For more information, see file in S 1664, box 5, folder 13.
- Collection
| a_s1664_07_tape67 | Interview with storyteller Ed Winn | Sound | Authors
Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Life histories
Oral history
Storytelling
Oral narratives
Local history
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with storyteller Ed Winn
- Date
- 1994-01-03
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. An interview with storyteller and local author Winn. A lifelong Florida native, he discusses traditional Central Florida culture. He read most of his stories. For more information, see file in S 1664, box 5, folder 31.
- Collection
| a_s2043_00092 | Interview with Stephen Foster expert and curator Fletcher Hodges (1961) | Sound | Interviews
Oral histories
Oral history
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Historian
Curators | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Stephen Foster expert and curator Fletcher Hodges (1961)
- Date
- 1961-09-26
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Fletcher Hodges, Jr., who was the curator of Stephen Foster Hall at the University of Pittsburgh, and author of a Foster biography. Hodges was a native of Indiana, where he was asked in 1932 to curate the Eli Lilly and Co.'s collection of Stephen Foster materials (20,000 items). He moved with the collection to the University of Pittsburgh in 1937. He also assisted in the creation of the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs. He retired in 1982. His wife Peggy was also a children's author and teller of folktales.
- Collection
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