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1984 Summer Folk Culture Seminar

1984 Summer Folk Culture Seminar
Date
1984-07-23
Description
Nine audio cassettes. Liz Simmons, folklorist and teacher from California, leads discussion with teachers on folklore and the place of jokes, legends, and games in folklore. Topics include Zora Neale Hurston; African American folklore; writing folklore; memory and expressive writing; tooth fairy stories; reinforced roles and stereotypes; politics, race and gender in folklore; teaching folklore; children's games; naming traditions; children's folklore; Jack Tales; and family folklore and stories.
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1984 Summer Folk Culture Seminar

1984 Summer Folk Culture Seminar
Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 12)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 12)
Date
1996-05-24
Description
One audio cassette tape. Kerchmar served as emcee. Ann Browning Masters continues her poetry recitation . Kazuko Law discusses Japanese women's traditions including fan gestures. The Grooms' talk continues on C96-60.
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Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 12)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 12)
Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 13)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 13)
Date
1996-05-24
Description
One audio cassette tape. Kerchmar served as emcee. Don and Suzanne Marie Grooms continue discussing folklife and creative writing.
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Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 13)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 13)
Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)
Date
1997-05-23
Description
One audio cassette recordings. Eileen Brautman (North Miami Beach), interviewed by Laurie Sommers, discusses traditional Jewish calligraphy and paper cutting, Jewish culture and traditions of east and central Europe.
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Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)
Graffiti in Jacksonville Beach

Graffiti in Jacksonville Beach
Date
1990-06
Description
Seventeen color slides. The graffiti was found on 1st and 18th streets in Jacksonville Beach. 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, 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.
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Graffiti in Jacksonville Beach

Graffiti in Jacksonville Beach
Japanese American New Year's celebration

Japanese American New Year's celebration
Date
1988-01
Description
Thirteen color slides. Images of a Japanese New Years celebration, including card playing, rice cooking, traditional calligraphy, craft demonstration, and traditional dress (eg kimonos). 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.
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Japanese American New Year's celebration

Japanese American New Year's celebration
Lynn Wadley interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project

Lynn Wadley interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
Date
1989-08-15
Description
One audio cassette. Wadley first became involved in folk music during her first marriage. She played guitar, dulcimer, autoharp, and was learning musical saw playing. She discusses learning folk music; influences; instruments played; song writing; performing; playing at the Florida Folk Festival; Florida-based songs; and learning the musical saw. Wadley then performs songs on the musical saw and dulcimer.
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Lynn Wadley interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project

Lynn Wadley interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar

Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar
Date
1986-05-14
Description
Five audio cassettes. Recordings of a seminar regarding teaching folklore in the class room (in the previous years, the seminars were called Folklife in the Classroom Teachers Seminar.) The theme dealt with field research and publishing. The keynote speaker was George Reynolds, author/editor of the Foxfire books. He spoke, along with some of his students, on research, interviewing, editing, and publishing as an educational tool.
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Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar

Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar
Writers' panel at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival

Writers' panel at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival
Date
1990-01-25
Description
One black and white proof sheet with forty-five images; thirty-five color slides. A panel discussion of Zora Neale Hurston life and work. Panel included Alice Walker and Zora's relative Lucy Hurston. This was the festival's first year.
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Writers' panel at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival

Writers' panel at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival
Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
a_s1576_14_c84-0931984 Summer Folk Culture SeminarSoundTeacher
Conferences and seminars series
Seminars
Teaching of folklore
Education
Teachers
Folklife
Jack tales
Marchen
Storytelling
Tales
Children
Family history
Writing
Naming practices
Jokes
Beliefs and cultures
Educators
Folklorists		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_63_c96-059Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 12)SoundComposer
Singers
Authors
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Life histories
Arts, Japanese
Japanese Americans
Arts, Asian
Asian Americans
Cherokee Indians
Composers
Poetic language
Writing		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_63_c96-060Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 13)SoundComposer
Singers
Authors
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Writing
Folklife		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_67_c97-064Friday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)SoundArtisans
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Oral performance
Life histories
Interviewing
Calligraphy
Writing
Paper art
Paper work
Arts, Jewish
Jewish Americans
Decorative arts
Jewish art and symbolism		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
Graffiti in Jacksonville BeachGraffiti in Jacksonville BeachStill ImageFieldwork
Graffiti
Written tradition
Speech play
Writing
Obscenity
Art
Street art
Walls
Concrete walls		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Japanese American New Year's celebrationJapanese American New Year's celebrationStill ImageFieldwork
Festivals Japan
Japanese Americans
Arts, Japanese
Holidays and festivals
Calendar rites
Writing
Rice
Cookery, Japanese
Rice (Cookery)
Games
New Year rites
Playing cards
Decorative arts
Pottery
Kimonos		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1618_05_tape11Lynn Wadley interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education ProjectSoundSingers
Composer
Field recordings
Oral narratives
Interviews
Folk singers
Musical instruments
Musical saws
Dulcimer music
String instruments
Guitar
Autoharp
Folk festivals
Music--Performance
Writing
Musicians		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_18_c86-042Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture SeminarSoundEducators
Teacher
Conferences and seminars series
Seminars
Workshops (Adult education)
Teaching of folklore
Interviewing
Teachers
Fieldwork (educational method)
Education
Folklife
Publishers and publishing
Oral history
Oral tradition
Editing
Writing
Folklorists		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
Writers' panel at the Zora Neale Hurston FestivalWriters' panel at the Zora Neale Hurston FestivalStill ImageAfrican Americans
Oral communication
Writing
Authors		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg