| Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Tarpon Springs Epiphany Celebration (Video 41-42) | Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Tarpon Springs Epiphany Celebration (Video 41-42) | Moving Image | Fieldwork
Epiphany
Greek Americans
Rites and ceremonies
Documentary videos
Video recording
Community culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Tarpon Springs Epiphany Celebration (Video 41-42)
- Date
- 1988
- Description
- Two video cassettes. (FV-16 also contains copies of videos 39 & 40). The Epiphany of Our Lord is a Christian rite celebrated within the Eastern Orthodox faith. Epiphany is a Greek word meaning to make known, and refers to the visit of the Magi to Christ, thereby making him known to the world. It is the climax of the twelve days of Christmas. Tarpon Springs boasts a large Greek American community. Created for the Every Island Has Its Own Song project. The finished product was a documentary about Nikitas Tsimouris, a Greek bagpipe player, and his family, and the Tarpon Springs Greek community he lived in. A co-production of WEDO-TV and the FFP, it was funded in part by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. Offenbach narrated. Folklorist Michael researched, wrote and produced, and Yvonne Bryant was assistant producer.
- Collection
| Flag raising ceremony at the 1962 Florida Folk Festival | Flag raising ceremony at the 1962 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Children
Boy Scouts
Students
Rites and ceremonies
Flags | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1576_78_d98-039 | Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1) | Sound | Musicians
Dancers
Fiddlers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Tongan Americans
Kava ceremony
Rites and ceremonies
Folk dance
Dance music
Indian Americans
Indian arts
Indian dance
Arts, Chinese
Chinese Americans
Arts, Asian
Asian American arts
Arts, Irish
Irish Americans
Fiddle music
Fiddling
Songs, Irish | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_22_c86-168a | Golden Star Arabic Band performance for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Fieldwork
Sound recordings
Performing arts
Music performance
Wedding ceremonies
Rites and ceremonies
Social gatherings
Arab Americans
Ethnicity, Arabic
Bands (Music)
Musical groups | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Golden Star Arabic Band performance for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1985-05-19
- Description
- One audio cassette. Performance by an Arabic band performing at a wedding reception at the Ramallah-American Club. Songs are in Arabic. Group members: Fahed Iwais (lead singer); Samier Kandah (oud/lute); Sandy Bateh (tabli/drum); Maged ount (tambourine); and George Bateh (violin). Images of the band can be found in S 1577, v. 36, S86-1786 - S86-1885; of Iwais in v. 36, slides S86-1789 - S86-1804. 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
| Images of a Miami Beach mikveh | Images of a Miami Beach mikveh | Still Image | Fieldwork
Architecture
Mikveh
Jewish Americans
Religion
Buildings
Jews
Baths
Bathing customs
Purity, Ritual
Rites and ceremonies
Purity, Ritual Judaism
Judaism | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Images of a Miami Beach mikveh
- Date
- 1985-09
- Description
- Three color slides. A mikveh ('collection') is a ritual pool (collection) of water used to immerse the body in order to remove impurity. Also spelled mikvah. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1985 and 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.
- Collection
| a_s1576_22_c86-173 | Interview with Harriet Pepps | Sound | Dog trainers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Greek Americans
Church membership
Church services
Churches
Catholics
Christianity
Community culture
Family history
Religion
Religious rites
Rites and ceremonies | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Harriet Pepps
- Date
- 1984-07-30
- Description
- One audio cassette. Pepps discusses Jacksonville's Greek community; the Greek Orthodox Church; her family background; Greek schools; marriages; St. John the Divine Greek Orthodox Church and its religious traditions, holy bread, church services, and its congregation. 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 curricula. 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
| a_s1576_t86-097 | Interview with traditional Jewish musician Jaime Bronsztein | Sound | Musicians
Fieldwork
Interviewing
Interviews
Life histories
Oral histories
Jews
Arts, Jewish
Jewish Americans
Education
Klezmer music
Music business
Rites and ceremonies
Wind instruments
Clarinet | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with traditional Jewish musician Jaime Bronsztein
- Date
- 1985-09-11
- Description
- Two reel to reel tapes. (Copied onto C86-137/138.) Interview with the traditional Jewish musician, recorded at a local shopping mall. Bronsztein discusses learning music; playing in Latin America and Israel; various Jewish musical bands; playing the clarinet; klezmer music; Jewish songs; playing for Jewish ceremonies; and life in Miami. 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.
- Collection
| Irene Guave's quinceanera | Irene Guave's quinceanera | Still Image | Musicians
Fieldwork
Quinceanera (Social custom)
Mexican Americans
Special events
Performing arts
Teenagers
Latinos
Birthday rites
Rites and ceremonies
Rites of passage
Bands (Music) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Irene Guave's quinceanera
- Date
- 1981-05-24
- Description
- 29 color slides. 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.
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| a_s1712_01_tape08b | Jan Rosenberg presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar | Sound | Jewish Americans
Religious identity
Rites and ceremonies
Judaism
Women in Judaism
Oral histories
Holidays
Religious rituals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Jan Rosenberg presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar
- Date
- 1989-07-27
- Description
- Folklorist Rosenberg discusses Jewish folklife; including the religion; temples; religious rites, practices, and art; Jewish stories, jokes, and life rituals; world, US, and Florida Jews; food; gender and Judaism; misconceptions of folklife; researching Jewish folklife; and Jewish Americans in the South. Recorded at the Jacksonville Museum of Science and History. Funded by the Florida Endowment of the humanities, the seminar series featured presentations by Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs staff and area specialists discussing the study of folk culture; folk traditions in Florida; women's occupational culture and lore; and the folk culture and lore of Hispanic, Jewish, and African-American women, including customs, beliefs, family and social relations, folk tales and jokes, and musical traditions and styles.
- Collection
| Jewish wedding party (with a Klezmer band) | Jewish wedding party (with a Klezmer band) | Still Image | Musicians
Fieldwork
Rites and ceremonies
Jewish Americans
Religion
Judaism
Jews
Wedding ceremonies
Weddings
Klezmer music
Bands (Music) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Jewish wedding party (with a Klezmer band)
- Date
- 1985-08
- Description
- Eighteen color slides. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1985 and 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.
- Collection
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