8 items found
Collection ID is exactly "1" AND Geographic Term is exactly "Hernando County (Fla.)"
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Annual Masaryktown Day Celebration

Annual Masaryktown Day Celebration
Date
1976-10-24
Description
One audio cassette. Recording of dances at the Masaryktown Day celebration, including interviews with local residents. Intermittent problems with tape playback. 
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Annual Masaryktown Day Celebration

Annual Masaryktown Day Celebration
Beseda dancers at the Florida Folk Festival

Beseda dancers at the Florida Folk Festival
Date
Description
Twenty-one black and white prints, and four color prints. Various images of the Beseda Dancers of Masaryktown, Florida, at the Florida Folk Festival, c. 1960s-1990s. The most recent image is from 1992. The word Beseda means gathering, and the dance is a combination of several Czechoslovakian folk dances.
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Beseda dancers at the Florida Folk Festival

Beseda dancers at the Florida Folk Festival
Czechoslavakian singing

Czechoslavakian singing
Date
1980-11-17
Description
Two reel to reel recordings. Singing (in Czechoslavakian) and interview with an unidentified resident of Masaryktown. Most of the songs she sang were unidentified.
Collection
Czechoslavakian singing

Czechoslavakian singing
Recording of the Czechoslovakian Independence Day at Masaryktown

Recording of the Czechoslovakian Independence Day at Masaryktown
Date
1980-10-26
Description
Two reel to reels.
Collection
Recording of the Czechoslovakian Independence Day at Masaryktown

Recording of the Czechoslovakian Independence Day at Masaryktown
Thelma Boltin on WWJB in Brooksville

Thelma Boltin on WWJB in Brooksville
Date
1962-01-24
Description
One reel-to-reel recording.
Collection
Thelma Boltin on WWJB in Brooksville

Thelma Boltin on WWJB in Brooksville
Traditional Czechoslavakian dance troupe

Traditional Czechoslavakian dance troupe
Date
1981-01
Description
Three black and white prints.
Collection
Traditional Czechoslavakian dance troupe

Traditional Czechoslavakian dance troupe
Views of Masaryktown, Florida

Views of Masaryktown, Florida
Date
1980
Description
One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white images. Fall 1980.
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Views of Masaryktown, Florida

Views of Masaryktown, Florida
WPA field recordings in Masaryktown (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris)

WPA field recordings in Masaryktown (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris)
Date
1939-08-27
Description
One reel to reel. (These songs appear at the end of the reel. Recordings from another WPA expedition is at the start. These same recordings appear at the start of T86-252, as well.) These recordings were created by Morris of the University of Florida, assisted by workers of the Florida Writers Project (including photographer Robert Cook), in 1939 and 1940. He created 14 12-inch acetate records in total. On this recording, Morris recorded a husband and wife team in Masaryktown. For more detailed information on the recordings, see S 1579, box 3, for copies of the original LOC indexes. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) – after 1939, the Works Projects Administration – was a work-relief program created in 1935 by the Roosevelt Administration that employed over 8.5 million people between 1935 and 1943. One of its programs was the Federal Writers Project (FWP), which included the Folklore Section. This section conducted fieldwork, recording songs, traditions, and stories across the nation. Originally created to gather material for the American Guide Series, but later emphasis was placed upon fieldwork for preservation of folk traditions for future use. In Florida, the FWP was based out of Jacksonville, and directed by historian Carita Doggett Corse. Folklorist Stetson Kennedy directed the Florida Folklife section. Seven recording expeditions were conducted in Florida. Two were conducted between 1935 and 1937, before the creation of the Florida Folklore Section: one by Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, and the other by John and Ruby Lomax. After 1939, five more were conducted by Florida’s FWP staff: Kennedy, Hurston, Robert Cook, Alton Morris, Corse, Robert Cornwell, John Filareton, and Herbert Halpert (of the Joint Committee on Folk Art’s Southern Recording Expedition.) Recording equipment was loaned to Florida’s WPA program by the Library of Congress’ Archive of the American Folk Song (later the American Folk Center). The field recordings were made on acetate disks, usually recorded at 78 rpm (although occasionally at 33 rpm). Because these disks were shipped from Washington DC to Florida, then to the recording site, and then back to Washington, these disks often were not of the highest sonic quality. Several had surface scratches and many had various recording speeds. In 1986, the FFP staff made copies of many of these recordings onto reel to reels for inclusion to the Florida Folklife Archive. The originals are still housed with the Library of Congress.
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WPA field recordings in Masaryktown (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris)

WPA field recordings in Masaryktown (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris)
Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
a_s1576_01_c77-004Annual Masaryktown Day CelebrationSoundCzechoslovakian Americans
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Dance music
Special events
Music performance
Interviews
Dancers
Musicians		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
Beseda dancers at the Florida Folk FestivalBeseda dancers at the Florida Folk FestivalStill ImageBeseda (Dance)
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Body movement
Folk dance
Demonstrations
Dance
Performing arts
Dancers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_t83-136Czechoslavakian singingSoundSingers
Fieldwork
Czechoslovakian Americans
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Singing
Interviews
Music performance
Performing arts		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t80-121Recording of the Czechoslovakian Independence Day at MasaryktownSoundSingers
Musicians
Fieldwork
Czechoslovakian Americans
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Polka music
Music performance
Holidays and festivals
A capella singing
Bands (Music)		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s2043_00106Thelma Boltin on WWJB in BrooksvilleSoundFolklore
Radio interviews
Radio employees
Radio programs
Folklorists		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
Traditional Czechoslavakian dance troupeTraditional Czechoslavakian dance troupeStill ImagePerformers
Performing arts
Dance
Folk dance
Dancers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Views of Masaryktown, FloridaViews of Masaryktown, FloridaStill ImageUrban life
Community
Landscape
Land use
Architecture
Restaurants
Buildings		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_t86-251aWPA field recordings in Masaryktown (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris)SoundFieldwork
New Deal, 1933-1939
Interviews
Public service employment
Folklorists
Public welfare
United States. Work Projects Administration
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakian Americans
A capella singers
Performing arts
A capella singing
Music performance
Singing
Songs, Slavic
Polka music
Dance music
Singers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg