Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church | Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church | Still Image | Fieldwork Community culture Community rites Shape note singing Musical tradition, sacred Painting Churches Wooden churches Church buildings Church architecture Church attendance Baptist church buildings Primitive Baptists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church
- Date
- 1994-01-30
- Description
- Twenty color slides. This church was first visited by the Florida Folklife Program back in the late 1970s as part of the North Florida Folklife Project. The members sing in the shaped note singing tradition.
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Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church and cemetery | Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church and cemetery | Still Image | Fieldwork Cemeteries Religion Architecture Church architecture Christianity Baptist church buildings Protestant church buildings Churches Gravestones Graves Grave markers Sepulchral slabs Sepulchral monuments Stone structures Stone carving | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Citrus boxes made by the Talley Wood Products Company | Citrus boxes made by the Talley Wood Products Company | Still Image | Fieldwork Factories Boxes Woodwork Wood craft | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
a_s1576_03_c80-001 | Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project | Sound | Music -- Performance Field recordings African Americans Blues (Music) Rural blues Diddley bows Gospel music Religious songs Shape note singing A capella singing Sacred Harp, Cooper Revision | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project
- Date
- 1978
- Description
- This audiocassette tape was composed of selections from field recordings for the North Florida Folklife Project and the Florida Record Project. Tracks 1-4 were featured on the Florida Folklife Program's compilation of African American musical traditions throughout Florida, Drop on Down in Florida. The tracks by Moses Williams are copied from T78-321, recorded April 22, 1978; tracks by Richard Williams and family are copied from T78-328 & T78-329, recorded May 27, 1978; tracks by Brown & N. L. Williams are copied from T78-326, recorded May 28, 1978; "Trot Along, My Honey" copied from T78-322, recorded April 22, 1978; "Angel Band" copied from T78-350, recorded October 29, 1978; "Wade in the Water" copied from T78-318, recorded April 16, 1978.
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Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church | Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church | Still Image | Fieldwork Religious music Religion Singing Shape note singing Christianity Church attendance Protestants Churches Church services Church membership Hymns | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church
- Date
- 1979-08-01
- Description
- Sixty-one color slides. Slides S79-141, 145-149, 153, 154, 159,169, 173, 177, 182,187-189, 192-195, 200-202,211-212, 214-217, 219 are missing.
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a_s1576_05_c81-022 | Sacred Harp slide-tape presentation | sound | Education Interviews Shape note singing A capella singing Field recordings Religious songs Sacred Harp, Cooper revision | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Sacred Harp slide-tape presentation
- Date
- 1980
- Description
One audio cassette. This tape served as accompanying audio to a slide-tape presentation created by the Florida Folklife Program about shape note singing and The Sacred Harp. The presentation features Albritton and shape note singers at Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church in Old Chicora recorded in 1978. Old Chicora is a ghost town on the borderline of Polk and Hillsborough counties, south of the present day towns of Lithia and Mulberry.
The source material for this presentation can be found on audiotapes T78-348, T78-349 and T78-350. C80-26, reproduced in its entirety beginning at 1:13, served as the master tape used in live slide-tape presentations.
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a_s1664_08_tape78 | Shape note singing at Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church | sound | Religious songs A capella singing Field recordings Music -- Performance Shape note singing Sacred Harp, Cooper | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_t78-348 | Shape note singing at Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church | sound | Shape note singing Music -- Performance Religious songs A capella singing Field recordings Sacred Harp, Cooper Revision | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Shape note singing at Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church
- Date
- 1978-10-29
- Description
- Three audiotape reels. Shape note singers sing songs from the Cooper revision of The Sacred Harp. At 38:10, Bulger interviews Albritton about the founding of the church and the history of shape note singing in Old Chicora, a ghost town on the borderline of Polk and Hillsborough counties, south of the present day towns of Lithia and Mulberry. This interview, as well as "Cowper" and "Angel Band" are reproduced on C79-76. "I Will Praise My Master" drops out momentarily due to a problem with the tape.
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a_s1576_t83-074 | Shape note singing at Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church | sound | Shape note singers Field recordings Religious songs Music -- Performance Shape note singing Sacred Harp, Cooper Revision A capella singing | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_03_c79-082 | Shape note singing at Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church | Sound | Singers Field recordings Shape note singing Religious songs A capella singing Music -- Performance Sacred Harp, Cooper Revision | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Shape note singing at Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church
- Date
- 1979-07-29
- Description
Two audio cassettes. Shape note singing from The Sacred Harp at Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church in Old Chicora, a ghost town on the borderline of Polk and Hillsborough counties, south of the present day towns of Lithia and Mulberry.
On side two of C79-82, Bulger interviews Albritton. He explains the shapes, the shape note singing revival around the United States, the difference between the Cooper and Denson revisions of The Sacred Harp, the relationship between song titles and their lyrical content, as well as the origin of the melodies in the book.
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