| a_s1640_23_tape23 | Interview with boat builder Glen Simmons | Sound | Woodworkers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Boatbuilding
Skiffs
Transportation
Waterways
Boats and boating
Personal experience narratives
Woodwork
Oral history
Oral narratives
Wood craft
Boatbuilders | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with boat builder Glen Simmons
- Date
- 1991-11-25
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Simmons discusses boatbuilding and his lfie. For more information see S 1644, box 10, folder 11. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by first folklorist Peter Roller, then folklorist Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.
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| a_s1640_23_tape25 | Interview with boat builder Glen Simmons | Sound | Woodworkers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Boatbuilding
Skiffs
Transportation
Waterways
Boats and boating
Personal experience narratives
Woodwork
Oral history
Oral narratives
Wood craft
Boatbuilders | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with boat builder Glen Simmons
- Date
- 1992-06-29
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by first folklorist Peter Roller, then folklorist Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-006 | Irma Gabriales interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Dance
Latinos
Mexican Americans
Piñatas | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Irma Gabriales interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey
- Date
- 1985-09-10
- Description
- One reel to reel, copied onto cassette tape C86-50. Interview conducted in Gabriales home. She discusses life in Mexico, learning to dance, moving to the United States at age ten, studying fina arts in school, types of dance, pinata making, and Mexican music. For some of the recording, a lawn mower can be heard in the background.
- Collection
| Lobster traps | Lobster traps | Still Image | Maritime life
Fish traps
Woodwork
Carpentry
Selling
Trucks
Fishing Equipment and supplies
Lobsters
Seafood industry
Automobile mechanics
Carpenters | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Lobster traps
- Date
- 1985-09-04
- Description
- Six color slides. Images of wooden lobster traps, built by James Lawrence, an auto mechanic. He sold them out the back of his pick-up truck (also pictured.) The Metro-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
| Local musicians performing early morning Mother's Day serenatas. | Local musicians performing early morning Mother's Day serenatas. | Still Image | Musicians
Fieldwork
Mexican Americans
Latinos
Serenades
Performing arts
Music performance
Serenatas
Mothers Day Songs and music
Arts, Mexican
Recording equipment
Sound recording
Bands (Music)
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Local musicians performing early morning Mother's Day serenatas.
- Date
- 1995-05-14
- Description
- Twelve color slides. Images of Los Fuerza del Norte (Tomas Granado, David Avalos, and Guadalupe Rivera) performing traditional serenatas for mothers on Mother's Day. Also visible is sound engineer Paul Butterfield, who worked with folklorist Stone to create field recordings. 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_s1576_t86-001 | Maria Pozos interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey | Sound | Plants
Interviews
Field recordings
Oral narratives
Cooking
Foodways
Herbs
Folk beliefs
Complementary and alternative medicine
Mexican Americans
Migrant labor | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Maria Pozos interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey
- Date
- 1985-09-05
- Description
- One reel-to-reel tape (copied onto C86-47). Interview with migrant laborer Pozos in her home in the Dade Labor Camp. She discusses herbal medicine, cures, cooking, and her family. Often hard to hear due to loud jets flying over (the camp is next-door to a US Air Force base).
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| Mariachi Jalisco practicing | Mariachi Jalisco practicing | Still Image | Musical ensembles
Latinos
Mexican Americans
Music performance
Guitarists
Guitar
String instruments
Performing arts
Horns (instruments)
Wind instruments
Trumpets
Musical instruments
Mariachi
Mariachi music
Ethnicity, Mexico
Bands (Music)
Musical groups
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Mariachi Jalisco practicing
- Date
- 1986-09-04
- Description
- Five color slides. Images are of a Mexican American mariachi band practicing in Francisco Rodriques' house. Mariachi bands, which began in the Mexican state of Jalisco, were often employed to play at special events. Full bands include trumpets, violins, and guitars. Recording of performance found on T86-76 and C86-120 in S 1576. The Metro-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.
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| Mario Pozos with her herb and food garden | Mario Pozos with her herb and food garden | Still Image | Plants
Herbs
Latinos
Mexican Americans
Beliefs and cultures
Alternative medicine
Natural medicine
Migrant workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Mario Pozos with her herb and food garden
- Date
- 1986-09-05
- Description
- Five color slides. Images of Pozos in her herb garden. She used many of the herbs for medicinal purposes. She lived in the Dade Labor Camp. The Metro-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.
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| Metro Dade Folk Arts, 1985-1986 | Metro Dade Folk Arts, 1985-1986 | Still Image | Crab fisheries Equipment and supplies
Boats
Boatbuilding
Fish trapping
Fishing
Trees
Material culture
Mariachi music
Music
Boatbuilders
Fishers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Metro Dade Folk Arts, 1985-1986
- Date
- 1985-08-21
- Description
- One proof sheet with twenty-one black and white images. Images of South Florida/Dade County folklife. 1-4: D.A. Patel's trees; 5-14: Glade skiff built by Glen Simmons of Florida City; 15-18: Crab traps by Jim Lawrence of Homestead; 19-21: Mariachi player Francisco Rodriguez.
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| Migrant farmers harvesting sweet potatoes | Migrant farmers harvesting sweet potatoes | Still Image | Latinos
Farm life
Agriculture
Tractors
Farming
Farms
Labor
Workers
Migrants
Occupational groups
Crops
Migrant workers
Farm workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Migrant farmers harvesting sweet potatoes
- Date
- 1985-09-06
- Description
- Thirteen color slides. Images are of Latino migrant workers harvesting sweet potatos; also includes images of pickers and tractor drivers. The Metro-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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