| African-Cuban bembe drumming | African-Cuban bembe drumming | Still Image | Musicians
Fieldwork
Drums
Percussion instruments
Musical instruments
African Americans
Cuban Americans
Arts, Cuban
Performing arts
Drummers (Musicians) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Bon Festival at the Morikami Museum | Bon Festival at the Morikami Museum | Still Image | Performers
Drummers (Musicians)
Fieldwork
Festivals
Holidays and festivals
Japanese Americans
Arts, Japanese
Asian Americans
Asian American arts
Arts, Asian
Clothing and dress
Kimonos
Ullambana
Festivals Japan
Lanterns
Drums
Percussion instruments | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Bon Festival at the Morikami Museum
- Date
- 1987-08-16
- Description
- Eighteen color slides. The Bon Festival is the Morikami Museum version of Obon (Ullambana), a traditional three-day Japanese festival to honor the dead. Traditionally, the day ends with lighted lanterns to guide souls back to the afterlife. In additions to the lanterns, images of the Bon Festival feature folk dancing, street performers, Japanese cultural demonstrations, and Taiku drumming. The festival was held each August. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
- Collection
| Cimbalum player | Cimbalum player | Still Image | Fieldwork
Percussion instruments
Musical instruments
Music performance
Hungarians Americans
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cimbalum player
- Date
- 1985-08
- Description
- Eleven color slides. Images created as fieldwork for the apprenticeship program. 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
| Creek Indian ceremonial drum | Creek Indian ceremonial drum | Still Image | Native Americans
Religion
Material culture
Drums
Musical instruments
Percussion instruments
Musical instrument maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1576_64_c96-092 | Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 1) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Music performance
African Americans
Drummers (Musicians)
Percussion instruments
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 1)
- Date
- 1996-05-24
- Description
- One audio cassette tape. McKenzie served as emcee. Val Serrante (Trinidad) discusses percussion, African culture and the roots of the tradition. He also discusses percussion instruments and the purpose of rhythms and combinations of the rhythms. Instruments discussed are the maracas (shak-shak), the djembe, tambu bamboo bands, bamboo pieces, bells, steel drum, and whistle.
- Collection
| Guatemalan Mayans playing the marimba | Guatemalan Mayans playing the marimba | Still Image | Musicians
Fieldwork
Marimba
Xylophone
Mayans
Guatemalan Americans
Musical instruments
Music performance
Percussion instruments
Music
Mallet | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Guatemalan Mayans playing the marimba
- Date
- 1987
- Description
- One proof with ten images, plus 5 color prints. A marimba is a type of xylophone played with a mallet. Master folk artists (and marimba players) Camposeco, Francisco and Mendez entered the apprenticeship program to teach the youth of the Mayan community of Indiantown to play the marimba. The two official apprentices were Miguel Marroquin and Valentín Xuncax, although a number of youth participated in the program. 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
| Guatemalan Mayans playing the marimba | Guatemalan Mayans playing the marimba | Still Image | Musicians
Fieldwork
Marimba
Xylophone
Mayans
Guatemalan Americans
Musical instruments
Music performance
Percussion instruments
Music
Mallet | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Guatemalan Mayans playing the marimba
- Date
- 1988
- Description
- Forty-five color slides. A marimba is a type of xylophone played with a mallet. Master folk artists (and marimba players)Camposeco, Francisco and Mendez entered the program to teach the youth of the Mayan community of Indiantown the marimba. The two official apprentices were Miguel Marroquin and Valentín Xuncax, although a number of youth participated in the program as well. 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_s1576_t83-150 | Interview with jazz and blues drummer Clyde Andrews | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Drums
Blues (Music)
Jazz music
Music business
Nightclubs
Music performance
Music industry
Drum music
Percussion instruments
Horn music
Saxophones
Rock music
Drummers (Musicians)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with jazz and blues drummer Clyde Andrews
- Date
- 1981-12-02
- Description
- One reel to reel. Andrews, son of musician Harold Andrews and a Pensacola native, discusses his interest in music as a child; the similarities between various styles of music; playing progressive jazz, rock and roll, swing and other music styles; learning to read music; his favorite jazz styles and his opinions on other types of music; the public's interest in jazz music; improvisation; drumming; Charles Marby, a drummer; and playing brass instruments. The cassette is damaged and does not play well. Copied onto audiocassette C83-50.
- Collection
| Jay Starka playing steel drums at the 1970 Florida Folk Festival | Jay Starka playing steel drums at the 1970 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Drummers (Musicians)
Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Drums
Percussion instruments
Music performance
Musical instruments
Performing arts
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Marimba Mayalandia performing at the Rivera Residence | Marimba Mayalandia performing at the Rivera Residence | Still Image | Fieldwork
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Latinos
Performing arts
Music performance
Marimba
Musical instruments
Percussion instruments
Singers
Bands (Music)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Marimba Mayalandia performing at the Rivera Residence
- Date
- 1996-05-18
- Description
- One proof sheet with 36 black and white images (plus negatives). The marimba is similar to the piano, except it is played with mallets. Originally from Africa, the instrument is popular in Latin America. 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.
- Collection
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