| 1992 Florida Folk Festival | 1992 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Beseda (Dance)
Body movement
Circus
Performers
Performing arts
Entertainers
Entertainment
Dancers
Circus performers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
1992 Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1992-05
- Description
- One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white prints. Various images of the 1992 Florida Folk Festival, including the Sarasota and the FSU circuses, and the Masaryktown Beseda dancers.
- Collection
| a_s1576_01_c77-004 | Annual Masaryktown Day Celebration | Sound | Czechoslovakian Americans
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Dance music
Special events
Music performance
Interviews
Dancers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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.
- Collection
| Beseda dancers at the Florida Folk Festival | Beseda dancers at the Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Beseda (Dance)
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Body movement
Folk dance
Demonstrations
Dance
Performing arts
Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
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.
- Collection
| Beseda dancers at the Florida Folk Festival | Beseda dancers at the Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Beseda (Dance)
Dance
Performing arts
Body movement
Performers
Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Beseda dancers at the Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1992-05-23
- Description
- One contact sheet with thirty-six black and white images. Images of the Beseda Dancers of Masaryktown, Florida, performing onstage at the Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t83-136 | Czechoslavakian singing | Sound | Singers
Fieldwork
Czechoslovakian Americans
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Singing
Interviews
Music performance
Performing arts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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
| a_s1576_t80-121 | Recording of the Czechoslovakian Independence Day at Masaryktown | Sound | Singers
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_s2042_sfm_15 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Four Short Features | Sound | Composer
Curators
Archivists
Musicians
Radio
Radio programs
Radio announcing
Documentaries Radio
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Popular songs
Commercial songs
Composers
Folklore and history
Life histories
Accordion music
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Oral narratives
Storytelling
Tall tales
Humor
Jokes
Personal experience narratives
Oral education
Advertising, Public service
Accordionists
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Four Short Features
- Date
- 1961
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. (15 minutes). Four short radio stories: 1. Open Thy Lattice, Love (3:30) -- story behind Stephen Foster's first published song. 2. Fletcher Hodges, Jr. (3:46)-- story about the curator of Foster Hall at the University of Pittsburgh, and author of a Foster biography. Hodges was a native of Indiana, where he was asked in 1932 to curate the Eli Lilly and Co.'s collection of Foster materials (20,000 items). He moved with the collection to the University of Pittsburgh in 1937. 3. Masaryktown (3:45) -- story of the Czechoslovakian community, with Jerry Psenka's music. 4. Lem Griffis (4:00) -- sampler of Griffis' humorous stories; who was from the Okeefenokee swamp in South Georgia (the headwaters of the Suwannee River). He was a regular performer at the Festival. These programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
- Collection
| Traditional Czechoslavakian dance troupe | Traditional Czechoslavakian dance troupe | Still Image | Performers
Performing arts
Dance
Folk dance
Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Views of Masaryktown, Florida | Views of Masaryktown, Florida | Still Image | Urban life
Community
Landscape
Land use
Architecture
Restaurants
Buildings | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1576_t86-251a | WPA field recordings in Masaryktown (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris) | Sound | Fieldwork
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 |
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.
- Collection
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