| a_s1576_06_c81-053 | Carlos Salazarte and Carlos Oliva interview | Sound | Field recordings
Arts, Cuban
Cuban Americans
Emigration and immigration
Music business
Family history
Oral histories
Interviews
Latinos
Life histories | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Carlos Salazarte and Carlos Oliva interview
- Date
- 1981-08-17
- Description
- Salazarte and Oliva talk about their family histories and how they came to immigrate to the U.S. and Miami; their experiences as musicians and Latin music promoters; Little Havana; and Latin American celebrations and customs. Oliva discusses his experience with his band, Los Sobrinos del Juez (The Judge's Nephews), and his musical directorship of the Miami Sound Machine. Copied from T81-82 & T81-83.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-059 | Choir music at Nortre Dame d'Haiti Church | Sound | Fieldwork
Haitian Americans
Church attendance
Church services
Churches
Religious music
Religious rites
Religion
Christianity
Choir singing
Choirs (music)
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Choir music at Nortre Dame d'Haiti Church
- Date
- 1985-08-11
- Description
- Two reel to reel tapes. (Copied onto C86-102.) Recording of the choir at Notre Dame d'Haiti Church at a Sunday morning service. Field notes mention that the mike was 20 feet away from choir, so the recording is "under recorded." Includes Congo and calypso styles. The choir director was Michael Voltaire. 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
| a_s1576_t86-093 | Church service at Martin Memorial AME Church | Sound | Fieldwork
Church services
Churches
Church attendance
Protestants
African Americans
Religion
Christianity
Music performance
Performing arts
Singing
Choir singing
Preachers
Sermons
Religious music
Blues singers
Bands (Music)
Musical groups | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Church service at Martin Memorial AME Church
- Date
- 1985-09-08
- Description
- One reel to reel tape. (Copied onto C86-134). 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
| a_s1576_12_c84-006 | Eddie Johnson interview | Sound | Field recordings
Life histories
Interviews
Oral narratives
African Americans
Gospel music | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Eddie Johnson interview
- Date
- 1984-01-27
- Description
- Johnson, a quartet singer, describes his early childhood and his family's move from Georgia to Florida in 1927; early jobs; early involvement with gospel singing through church; remembers such groups as the Bright Star Jubilee Singers, Stars of Harmony, and Sons of Daniel; singing with the Spiritual Harmonizers; the Florida Nightingales; his family; work as a manager of singing groups; radio program in Coral Gables; Henry Stone, who recorded his group, the Suwannee Quintet.
- Collection
| a_s1640_25_tape03 | Felix & Augustine Omeden interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
Nigerian Americans
Dance
Ethnic clothing
Instrumentalists
Drums (musical instruments)
Oral history narratives
Fire eating
Religious rituals
Religious symbolism
Folk dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Felix & Augustine Omeden interview for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program
- Date
- 1994-07-31
- Description
- One audio cassette. At the time, the Omebens had lived in Miami for ten years. The dances they taught through the apprenticeship program date back over a thousand years, were performed only by males who created their own costumes, and served as a religious declaration and rite of passage.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-075 | Fiesta Guajiro radio show on WQBA | Sound | Fieldwork
Music performance
Latinos
Cuban Americans
Musical groups
Performers
Performing arts
Arts, Cuban
Drummers (Musicians)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Fiesta Guajiro radio show on WQBA
- Date
- 1985-08-18
- Description
- One reel to reel tape. (Copied onto C86-117) Recording (in Spanish) of a radio program by Fiesta Guajiro in WQBA, which began broadcasting in 1948 in Cuba, and in 1978 in the US. Fiesta Guajiro is a six-member group with four singers (Martiea, Agaptic Gonzales, Miguel Ramirez, and Rocardo Capote), two musicians (Bertz Acebedo on laud-- a Cuban style of mandolin -- and Teodoro Maya on guitar). All were native Cubans. Their program aired Sundays 9-10am, WQBA, 108 am. They discuss history of the group and show; the Decima tradition (a 17th century 10-line improvised verse form); personal histories; and themes of decima improvisations. For more information see field notes in S 1628, Box 1, folder 10. 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
| a_s1576_02_c79-069 | Genuine Florida Ole Time Music performance | Sound | Sound recordings
Music performance
Old time music
Folk singers
Guitar music
Country music
Singing
Singers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s2044_02_tape10 | Glenn Lee performing Pass Me Not Oh Gentle Savior | Sound | Fieldwork
Steel guitars
Guitar music
Performing arts
Guitarists
Music performance
African Americans
Religious songs
Religious music
Gospel songs
Gospel musicians
Gospel (Black)
Bands (Music)
Musical groups
Churches
Religion
Christianity
Protestants
Guitarist
Singers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Glenn Lee performing Pass Me Not Oh Gentle Savior
- Date
- 1994-03-07
- Description
- One audio cassette recording. For more of Lee, see tapes 2 and 4. The Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project originated in 1992 when Florida Folklife Program folklorist Robert Stone discovered that several predominantly African American House of God churches (a sub-sect of the Pentecostal church) in the St. Petersburg area were using steel guitars in their religious services. The practice began by Willie and Troman Eason in the 1930s, and expanded upon by players such as Henry Nelson and Lorenzo Harrison. Realizing that this was a unique musical tradition, labeled Sacred Steel, the Florida Folklife Program to applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to conduct fieldwork and create a music album for public dispersal. The aim of the project was to increase public awareness of the gospel steel guitar tradition, as well as document it for future generations. Matched with state funds, the grant period originally ran from October 1993 through October 1994, but was extended for another year. In that time Stone, along with sound engineers William Dudley and Mike Stapleton, interviewed and recorded several steel guitarists in the St. Petersburg area. An album entitled Sacred Steel was released in 1995. It was then re-released through an agreement with Arhoolie Records in 1997.
- Collection
| a_s2044_02_tape02 | Glenn Lee performing sacred steel music with a band at a House of God church | Sound | Guitarist
Singers
Fieldwork
Steel guitars
Guitar music
Performing arts
Guitarists
Music performance
African Americans
Religious songs
Religious music
Gospel songs
Gospel musicians
Gospel (Black)
Musical groups
Churches
Religion
Christianity
Protestants
Bands (Music)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Glenn Lee performing sacred steel music with a band at a House of God church
- Date
- 1994-03-07
- Description
- One audio cassette recording. (Duplicate can be found on tape 5.) Recorded at a Church of God church (not during church services)in Perrine, Florida. The band consisted of Glenn Lee (steel guitar), Alvin Lee (bass), Benjamin Beckford (drums), and John Hampton (guitar). Excerpted from a longer recording (see tapes 18-20 in S 2044). The Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project originated in 1992 when Florida Folklife Program folklorist Robert Stone discovered that several predominantly African American House of God churches (a sub-sect of the Pentecostal church) in the St. Petersburg area were using steel guitars in their religious services. The practice began by Willie and Troman Eason in the 1930s, and expanded upon by players such as Henry Nelson and Lorenzo Harrison. Realizing that this was a unique musical tradition, labeled Sacred Steel, the Florida Folklife Program to applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to conduct fieldwork and create a music album for public dispersal. The aim of the project was to increase public awareness of the gospel steel guitar tradition, as well as document it for future generations. Matched with state funds, the grant period originally ran from October 1993 through October 1994, but was extended for another year. In that time Stone, along with sound engineers William Dudley and Mike Stapleton, interviewed and recorded several steel guitarists in the St. Petersburg area. An album entitled Sacred Steel was released in 1995. It was then re-released through an agreement with Arhoolie Records in 1997.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-008 | Gospel Sing at the First Born Church of the Living God | Sound | Fieldwork
Gospel music
Gospel (Black)
Gospel songs
Religious music
Christianity
Protestants
African Americans
Choir singing
Church services
Churches
Special events
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Gospel Sing at the First Born Church of the Living God
- Date
- 1985-09-13
- Description
- Three reel to reels (also copied onto audio cassettes: C86-52/53/54). 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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