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15-minute Programs

Date: 1961
Description: One reel to reel recording (15 minutes). These programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
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15-minute Programs

Florida Blues Radio Show on WJCT (Jacksonville)

Date: 1981
Description: One reel to reel. (Copied onto audio cassette C81-11; reel T81-13B) A radio show -- jointly produced by WJCT and the FFP -- tracing the origins and evolution of blues music centering on Florida musicians. Created by using earlier FFP recordings. Includes recordings of prisoners singing the blues together while laboring and performances of "Baby Please Don't Go" and "I'm a Stranger Here" by Blind Johnny Brown of St. Petersburg, Florida. Includes commentary by Florida folklorists and Florida blues musicians.
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Florida Blues Radio Show on WJCT (Jacksonville)

Florida Folk Sampler radio program for the 1984 Florida Folk Festival (WLRN-FM)

Date: 1984
Description: One audio cassette. Radio show prepared by WLNR-FM, a Miami-based public radio show, about the 1984 Florida Folk Festival. Includes performances from the 1983 festival, as well. Also includes recordings made in the festival campgrounds of many performers gathered around campfires talking and performing.
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Florida Folk Sampler radio program for the 1984 Florida Folk Festival (WLRN-FM)

Florida Folkways

Date: 1961
Description: One reel to reel recording (15 minutes). These programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
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Florida Folkways

Florida Home: Everyday Treasure

Date: 1985
Description: One audio cassette (and one duplicate). Part six of a six-part radio series produced by the Florida Folklife Program and WJCT-FM (Jacksonville) that explored traditional arts and culture in Florida. This episode dealt with folklife and the study of traditions.
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Florida Home: Everyday Treasure

Florida Home: Humorists and Health Evangelists

Date: 1985
Description: One audio cassette (Duplicate located in S 1576, box 37, tape 21.) Part one of a six-part radio series produced by the Florida Folklife Program and WJCT-FM (Jacksonville) that explored traditional arts and culture in Florida. This episode dealt with medicine shows.
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Florida Home: Humorists and Health Evangelists

Florida Home: I Started With the Blues

Date: 1985
Description: One audio cassette. (Duplicates located in S 1576, box 37, tapes 24 & 25.) Part three of a six-part radio series produced by the Florida Folklife Program and WJCT-FM (Jacksonville) that explored traditional arts and culture in Florida. This episode dealt with minstrel shows and the blues.
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Florida Home: I Started With the Blues

Florida Home: Sauna and Sisu

Date: 1985
Description: One audio cassette. (Duplicate located in S 1576, box 37, tape 26.) Part four of a six-part radio series produced by the Florida Folklife Program and WJCT-FM (Jacksonville) that explored traditional arts and culture in Florida. This episode dealt with Finnish American communities.
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Florida Home: Sauna and Sisu

Florida Home: Showtown USA

Date: 1985
Description: One audio cassette. (Duplicates located in S 1576, box 37, tapes 22 & 23.) Part two of a six-part radio series produced by the Florida Folklife Program and WJCT-FM (Jacksonville) that explored traditional arts and culture in Florida. This episode dealt with circuses and other traveling shows.
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Florida Home: Showtown USA

Florida Home: The Music You Have Inside

Date: 1985
Description: One audio cassette (and one duplicate). Part five of a six-part radio series produced by the Florida Folklife Program and WJCT-FM (Jacksonville) that explored traditional arts and culture in Florida. This episode dealt with music of Caribbean immigrants.
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Florida Home: The Music You Have Inside

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Florida Blues Radio Show on WJCT (Jacksonville)

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Florida Folk Sampler radio program for the 1984 Florida Folk Festival (WLRN-FM)

Florida Folk Sampler radio program for the 1984 Florida Folk Festival (WLRN-FM)

Florida Folkways

Florida Folkways

Florida Home: Everyday Treasure

Florida Home: Everyday Treasure

Florida Home: Humorists and Health Evangelists

Florida Home: Humorists and Health Evangelists

Florida Home: I Started With the Blues

Florida Home: I Started With the Blues

Florida Home: Sauna and Sisu

Florida Home: Sauna and Sisu

Florida Home: Showtown USA

Florida Home: Showtown USA

Florida Home: The Music You Have Inside

Florida Home: The Music You Have Inside

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15-minute Programs

15-minute Programs

Florida Blues Radio Show on WJCT (Jacksonville)

Florida Blues Radio Show on WJCT (Jacksonville)

Florida Folk Sampler radio program for the 1984 Florida Folk Festival (WLRN-FM)

Florida Folk Sampler radio program for the 1984 Florida Folk Festival (WLRN-FM)

Florida Folkways

Florida Folkways

Florida Home: Everyday Treasure

Florida Home: Everyday Treasure

Florida Home: Humorists and Health Evangelists

Florida Home: Humorists and Health Evangelists

Florida Home: I Started With the Blues

Florida Home: I Started With the Blues

Florida Home: Sauna and Sisu

Florida Home: Sauna and Sisu

Florida Home: Showtown USA

Florida Home: Showtown USA

Florida Home: The Music You Have Inside

Florida Home: The Music You Have Inside