| 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
- 27 color slides. 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
| Nigerian dancing and drumming at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival | Nigerian dancing and drumming at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Music performance
Drums
Percussion instruments
Dance
Performing arts
Body movement
African Americans
Nigerian Americans
Apprentices
Arts, Nigerian
Demonstrations
Dancers
Drummers (Musicians)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Nigerian dancing and drumming at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1994-05-28
- Description
- One proof sheet with 26 black and white images (plus negatives). Bali and Campbell apprenticed under the Amenbens during the 1993-1994 Florida Folklife Program apprenticeship program. They demonstrated their new skills at the Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t90-107a | Nila and Jaya Radhakrishnan dancing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) | Sound | Musicians
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Dance
Singing
Indian arts
Indian dance
Demonstrations
Tabla
Percussion instruments
Dancers
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t86-056 | Performance by Rasta Samba Gynin | Sound | Fieldwork
Haitian Americans
Sound recordings
African Americans
Music
Drums
Singing
Music performance
Performing arts
Percussion instruments
Rastafarianism
Religion
Religious music
Beliefs and cultures
Rastafari movement
Musical groups | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Performance by Rasta Samba Gynin
- Date
- 1985-08-08
- Description
- One reel to reel tape. (Copied onto C86-99) Rasta Samba Gynin is a Rasta group of four Haitians formed in 1984 to play Rasta cultural songs. Most of the songs (written by group member Yamba Ye) are spiritual, and follow traditional tunes. Their music stresses their African roots. For more information, see T86-57 (C86-100) for interviews with group members. Members are: Yamba Ye (writer, drums and vocal); Pierre Joseph Jabouin (drum and vocal); Henry Frederic Massena (drum and vocal); and Rodrick Maurice St. Cyr (voice and percussion). The Rasta movement (whose members are called Rastafarians) began with Marcus Garvey's back-to-Africa movement. When the Ethiopian prince Ras Tafari Makkonen was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie I in the 1930s, many in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean looked to him as a messiah, and Rasta was born. It combines elements of African and New World beliefs. Sommers's field notes on the group may be found in S 1628, Box 1, folder 11. Recorded at the Little River Community Center. The 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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| Performers at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival | Performers at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Bands (Music)
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Music performance
Drums
Percussion instruments
String bands
Performing arts
Steel guitars
Dancers
Drummers (Musicians)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Performers at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1994-05-28
- Description
- One proof sheet with 30 black and white images (plus negatives). Performers on the main stage, including gospel steel guitarist Ghent; traditional Scottish dancers; a string band, Merriweather; and a Florida songwriter, Dunn;
- Collection
| a_s1576_63_c96-065 | Saturday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 5-6) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Drum music
Carnivals
Percussion instruments
Trinidadians
Drummers (Musicians)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Saturday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 5-6)
- Date
- 1996-05-25
- Description
- Two audio cassette tapes. Tozzer served as emcee. C96-65: Val Serrante discusses Trinidad, drumming and steel drumming with Steve Stuempfle (folklorist from S. Florida). He explains various types of drums and how to get the tones used. He discusses the range of his playing abilities; how drums are used in traditional Trinidadian worship; Trinidad, its neighbors and their traditions. He also discusses the numbers that can make up a drum band and the tuners (makers) of the drums. C96-66: Val Serrante continues his discussion with Steve Stuempfle and explains bands and "Carnivale" and competitions. Talks of how the art is expanding worldwide.
- Collection
| a_s1576_68_c97-076 | Saturday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 6) | Sound | Drummers (Musicians)
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Oral performance
Life histories
Interviewing
Instrument manufacture
Musical instruments
Percussion instruments
African Americans
Drum music
Drums
Musical instrument maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Saturday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 6)
- Date
- 1997-05-24
- Description
- One audio cassette recordings. Eddie Osborne (Miami, FL), African-American drummaker is interviewed by Laurie Sommers. He discusses his background and the history of African-American instruments from the drums and banjo to rattles. He displays his instruments and talks about the materials used to make them. He also talks about his apprentice.
- Collection
| The Georgia Sea Island Singers performing for students | The Georgia Sea Island Singers performing for students | Still Image | Performing arts
Students
Music performance
Elementary schools
African Americans
Tambourine music
Tambourines
Percussion instruments
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
The Georgia Sea Island Singers performing for students
- Date
- Description
- One contact sheet with twenty-four black and white images. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. 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, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
- Collection
| The Junkanoos performing at the 1984 Florida Folk Festival | The Junkanoos performing at the 1984 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Bands (Music)
Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Musical instruments
Percussion instruments
African Americans
Music performance
Drummers (Musicians) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1576_t91-030 | The Key West Island Junkanoos performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Drums
Bands (Music)
Percussion instruments
African Americans
Drummers (Musicians)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
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