| Children storytelling in Madison | Children storytelling in Madison | Still Image | Oral communication
Children
Storytellers
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Storytelling
Tales
Demonstrations
Education
Schools
Classrooms
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Children storytelling in Madison
- Date
- 1983-10-07
- Description
- Five color slides. Students at Madison Elementary telling stories. Part of the 1983 Folk Arts in the Schools program.
- Collection
| a_s1576_13_c84-063 | Louise Sanders telling stories and singing at Madison Elementary School (3rd graders) | Sound | Singers
Storytellers
Fieldwork
Schools
Classrooms
Children
Students
Demonstrations
Storytelling
Family history
Jokes
Life histories
Singing
Yodeling
Hand-clapping games | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Louise Sanders telling stories and singing at Madison Elementary School (3rd graders)
- Date
- 1983-10-12
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side A
Louise Sanders tells the student stories about her childhood such as going to school in a one-room schoolhouse; foods they ate; things her family did for entertainment; chores. She also tells rhymes and sings: "Folks Behold a Little Boy" and "Sunbonnet Sally"; tells tongue-twisters; Othella (student?) demonstrates a clapping game. Side B Louise Sanders sings: "I Took My Girl to a Resstaurant"; "Just Becky and Me"; "Dying Cowgirl"; yodels; tells story about her start in singing; tells a rooster joke; tells about her bottle.
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| Madison Elementary Students visitng the Madison Senior Center | Madison Elementary Students visitng the Madison Senior Center | Still Image | Children
Elderly, the
Education
Fieldwork (educational method)
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Old cemetery in Madison | Old cemetery in Madison | Still Image | Community rites
Stone carving
Cemeteries
Fieldwork
Research methods
Graves
Grave markers
Gravestones
Inscriptions
Burial rites
Death rites | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Old cemetery in Madison
- Date
- 1983-08
- Description
- Fourteen color slides. Field research for the 1983 Folk Arts in the Schools program. Images of tombstones in a Madison cemetery, including those for Anglo and African Americans.
- Collection
| a_s1576_13_c84-058 | Singing by resident at the Madison County Senior Center | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Elderly, the
Senior centers
Singing
Poetry
Religious music
Gospel songs
Religious songs
A capella singers
A capella singing
African Americans
Spiritual music
Spirituals (Songs)
Singers
Poets | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Singing by resident at the Madison County Senior Center
- Date
- 1983-04-19
- Description
- One audio cassette. Various female senior citizens at the Madison County Senior Citizen Center sing religious songs and spirituals. (A man comes in near the beginning and sounds as if he sings with them).
- Collection
| Storyteller Louise Sanders with students | Storyteller Louise Sanders with students | Still Image | Students
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Storytelling
Tales
Demonstrations
Education
Schools
Classrooms
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1576_13_c84-061 | Student folklore demonstrations at Madison Primary School (3rd graders) | Sound | Storytellers
Fieldwork
Elementary schools
Classrooms
Demonstrations
Storytelling
Supernatural legends
Jokes
Hand-clapping games
Jump rope rhymes
Naming practices
Children
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| Tobacco barns in Madison County | Tobacco barns in Madison County | Still Image | Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1576_t86-223b | WPA field recordings at Cherry Lake (1936-1937 recording expedition) | Sound | Fieldwork
New Deal, 1933-1939
Interviews
Public service employment
Folklorists
Public welfare
United States. Work Projects Administration
Gospel music
Old time music
A capella singers
Performing arts
A capella singing
Music performance
Singing
Elderly, the
Gospel songs
Piano music
Fiddle music
Musicians
Pianists
Fiddlers
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
WPA field recordings at Cherry Lake (1936-1937 recording expedition)
- Date
- 1936
- Description
- One reel to reel. (Copied onto audio cassette C90-52/53, in S 1576.) These recordings were created during the 1936-1937 expedition led by John Lomax. In these recordings Lomax’s colleague visited Cherry Lake.(NOTE -- Valiant's papers can be found at the Mississippi State University's Special Collections.) These were the second of several WPA recording expeditions in Florida. At the time Lomax was in charge of the folklife section of the Federal Writers Project. He left that position in 1938, and in 1939 returned to Florida. See the online exhibit about that 1939 expedition at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html 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, and many are available online.
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