| 1986 Florida Folk Festival (12 of 17) | 1986 Florida Folk Festival (12 of 17) | Moving Image | Musicians
Singers
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Shells
African Americans
Arts, Haitian
Haitian Americans
Musical instruments | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
1986 Florida Folk Festival (12 of 17)
- Date
- 1986-05-24
- Description
- One video cassette. (3/4" tape) 20 minutes. Po lambi was used in rural Haitian villages to signal social gatherings, as work songs, and harvesting. It is usuaslly played with drums, and is of African origin. For Haitians, it is a symbol of their culture. For an interveiw with Joseph, see S 1576, T86-58 (C86-101).
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-022 | Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 1) | Sound | Musicians
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Workshops (Adult education)
Arts, Haitian
Haitian Americans
Music performance
Shells
Demonstrations
Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 1)
- Date
- 1986-05-23
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. (Copied onto C86-65.) Joseph played Pa Lambi (conch shell). He also discusses its history and uses. He is joined by several Haitian dancers. The folklife area in 1986 focused on Miami-Dade, which stemmed from fieldwork work on the 1986 Miami-Dade Folklife Survey, conducted by Lauri Sommers, Tina Bucuvalas, and Nancy Nusz.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-031 | Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 10) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Arts, Haitian
Music performance
Shells
Musical groups
Music Latin America
Harp music
Haitian Americans
Venezuelan Americans
Arts, Venezuelan
Latinos
Musicians
Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 10)
- Date
- 1986-05-23
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Copied onto C86-74. Jesus Rodriguez on Venezuelan harp, Henry Rodriguez on maracas, and Nelson Zuleta on quatro. Joseph played po lambi (conch shell). He also discusses its history and uses. Andre Max and George Edmond play drums and rhythm sticks. Gavilarine Moraville performs traditional Haitian dances. The folklife area in 1986 focused on Miami-Dade, which stemmed from fieldwork work on the 1986 Miami-Dade Folklife Survey, conducted by Lauri Sommers, Tina Bucuvalas, and Nancy Nusz.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-023 | Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 2) | Sound | Singers
Dancers
Storytellers
Musicians
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Workshops (Adult education)
Arts, Jamaican
Jamaican Americans
Music performance
Storytelling
Dance
Demonstrations
Arts, Haitian
Shells
Haitian Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 2)
- Date
- 1986-05-23
- Description
- One reel to reel recordings. C(Copied onto C86-66.) End of Josepg Limone's peformance (see T86-22). Ranger-Brown told several stories, sang "Island in the Sun," and demonstrates various dances. The folklife area in 1986 focused on Miami-Dade, which stemmed from fieldwork work on the 1986 Miami-Dade Folklife Survey, conducted by Lauri Sommers, Tina Bucuvalas, and Nancy Nusz.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-026 | Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 5) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Workshops (Adult education)
Arts, Haitian
Haitian Americans
Music performance
Shells
Arts, Venezuelan
Venezuelan Americans
Harp music
Musicians
Harpists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 5)
- Date
- 1986-05-23
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Copied onto C86-69. Joseph plays po lambi (conch shell). He also discusses its history and uses. Andre Max and George Edmond play drums and rhythm sticks. Gavilarine Moraville dances. Jaime Bronsztein, born 1940 plays traditional Jewish wedding songs, klezmer music. The folklife area in 1986 focused on Miami-Dade, which stemmed from fieldwork work on the 1986 Miami-Dade Folklife Survey, conducted by Lauri Sommers, Tina Bucuvalas, and Nancy Nusz.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-107 | Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 7) | Sound | Musicians
Singers
Drummers (Musicians)
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Shells
Drum music
Arts, Haitian
Haitian Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1708_04_tape09 | Interview with Amish artists Menno and Idah Ebersol | Sound | Fieldwork
Oral histories
Life histories
Sound recordings
Interviews
Art, Mennonite
Mennonites
Quilted goods
Quilting
Needlework
Shells
Carpentry
Carpenters
Quiltmakers
Needleworkers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Amish artists Menno and Idah Ebersol
- Date
- 1987-01-02
- Description
- One audio cassette. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Frangos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art project between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on those areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
- Collection
| a_s1576_08_c83-040 | Interview with Barry Masters on coquina construction | Sound | Folklore revival festivals
Interviews
Oral histories
Personal experience narratives
Construction + architecture
Coquina
Stone structures
Shells
Rocks
Mason | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Barry Masters on coquina construction
- Date
- 1983-05-23
- Description
- One audio cassette. Recorded at the Minorcan Folklife Area at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival. Masters discusses construction with coquina, a limestone rock unique to the eastern coast of Florida. He also discusses building stucco coquina and the high cost of building structures with coquina. Coquina is a type of rock that naturally develops from discarded coquina shells. Found mostly on Anastasia Island near St. Augustine, Florida. For images of Masters, see S 1577, v. 20, slides S83-1418 - S83-1420; S83-1424; S83-1425.
- Collection
| a_s1576_01_c77-021 | Interview with conch shell player Rev. Thurlow Weed | Sound | Shells
Interviews
Oral narratives
Musical instruments
Life histories
Music performance
Oral histories
Musicians
Preachers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with conch shell player Rev. Thurlow Weed
- Date
- 1977-01-30
- Description
- One audio cassette. Interview on side 1, music performance on side 2. Thurlow describes how he doesn't use music notes to play the conch shell; how shells are used for communication on boats in Key West, Bahamas, Hawaii; how he holds a BA in music; and how he plays the instrument. He also demonstrates playing the conch shell.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-058 | Interview with shell player Limone Joseph | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Demonstrations
Music
Latinos
Haitian Americans
Shells
Interviewing
Interviews
Life histories
Drums
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with shell player Limone Joseph
- Date
- 1985-08-17
- Description
- One reel to reel tape (also copied onto audio cassette: C86-101). Interview with Po Lambi player (Haitian shell playing). The skill was used in rural Haitian villages to signal social gatherings, as work songs, and during harvesting. It is usually played with drums, and is of African origins. For Haitians, it is a symbol of their culture. He discusses learning po lambi; uses of it; life in rural Haiti; moving to the US (c. 1975); getting degree in Social Sciences; his family's reaction to his learning po lambi; history of the tradition; and teaching Haitian folklife to others. For images of Joseph, see S 1577, v. 41, S86-4721 - S86-4727. 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
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