a_s1576_84_d00-035b | David Lee singing school at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Performance and Dance Stage | sound | A capella singing Florida Folk Festival Folk festivals Music -- Performance Religious songs Shape note singing Sacred Harp, Cooper Revision | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
David Lee singing school at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Performance and Dance Stage
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- 2000-05-28
- Description
Lee, from Hoboken, Ga., conducts a singing school, teaching participants shape note singing and songs from The Sacred Harp. He explains the history of shape note singing and The Sacred Harp in the Okefenokee region, indicating that singers learned to sing through aural transmission, passed down from generation to generation. Lee describes the four shapes (fa, sol, la, mi) and how they correspond to the major scale, followed by a demonstration. After clarifying how singers keep time and stay on beat, he explains how beats can be grouped together in common, compound, or triple time. As a synthesis of the lesson, Lee leads the class in tunes from The Sacred Harp, Revised Cooper Edition. There is digital distortion due to tape corruption on "Florida."
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a_s1576_t77-078f | The Silas Lee Family performance at the 1958 Florida Folk Festival Main Stage | sound | A capella singing Florida Folk Festival Folk festivals Music -- Performance Sacred Harp, Cooper Revision Shape note singing Religious songs | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
The Silas Lee Family performance at the 1958 Florida Folk Festival Main Stage
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- 1958-05-04
- Description
- Thelma Boltin serves as emcee. At 12:42, Griffin explains shape note singing, mentioning musicologist George Pullen Jackson and the Denson shape note singing family. The Silas Lee Family was from Hoboken, Georgia.
The performance is a splice of the sixth part of audiotape T77-78 and the first part of audiotape T77-79. "Religion Is a Fortune" features the shapes only due to the tape cutting off.
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a_s1576_t77-046b | Saturday evening performances at the 1956 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1) | Sound | Accordionists Guitarist Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Polka music Accordion music Guitar music Choir singing Choirs (music) Religious songs Singing Musicians Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_t77-043 | Saturday morning performances at the 1956 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1) | Sound | Accordionists Guitarist Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Singing Accordion music Guitar music Musicians Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Saturday morning performances at the 1956 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)
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- 1956-05-05
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. Detailed information on the performers can be found on the 1956 festival program, located in S 1619, box 1. Tomazin played the accordion, and the Kerseys and Hart played guitar. The Jacksonville College of Music presented a program of Stephen Foster music.
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a_s1576_t90-065 | Jewish Purim Play performance at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area) | Sound | Actors Performers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Workshops (Adult education) Demonstrations Play Theater Purim Arts, Jewish Jewish Americans Narratives Judaism Holidays and festivals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Jewish Purim Play performance at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area)
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- 1990-05-25
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Cantrell served as the emcee. A play performance of the book of Esther. Purim is a Jewish holiday celebrating the victory of the Jewish people over its enemies, as told in the Book of Esther. Literally a Celebration of Lots, it is a joyous time celebrating fun and happiness. Each year at the Florida Folk Festival, the Florida Folklife Program emphasized a particular culture, tradtions, or geographic area. In 1990, they emphasized celebrations of various Florida groups. including Haitians, Trinidadians, Greeks, and Jewish peoples.
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a_s1576_t90-079 | Jewish Purim Play performance at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area) | Sound | Actors Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Workshops (Adult education) Demonstrations Arts, Jewish Jewish Americans Theater Religious art Holidays and festivals Play Judaism Purim | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Jewish Purim Play performance at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area)
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- 1990-05-26
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Purim is a Jewish holiday celebrating the victory of the Jewish people over its enemies, as told in the Book of Esther. Literally a Celebration of Lots, it is a joyous time celebrating fun and happiness. Each year at the Florida Folk Festival, the Florida Folklife Program emphasized a particular culture, tradtions, or geographic area. In 1990, they emphasized celebrations of various Florida groups. including Haitians, Trinidadians, Greeks, and Jewish peoples.
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a_s1576_t90-085 | Purim Celebration Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area) | Sound | Actors Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Workshops (Adult education) Demonstrations Holidays Jews United States Holidays and festivals Oral communication Purim Arts, Jewish Jewish Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Purim Celebration Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area)
- Date
- 1990-05-27
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Purim is a Jewish holiday celebrating the victory of the Jewish people over its enemies, as told in the Book of Esther. Literally a Celebration of Lots, it is a joyous time celebrating fun and happiness. Each year at the Florida Folk Festival, the Florida Folklife Program emphasized a particular culture, tradtions, or geographic area. In 1990, they emphasized celebrations of various Florida groups. including Haitians, Trinidadians, Greeks, and Jewish peoples.
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Spanish conquistador reenactor at the 1958 Florida Folk Festival | Spanish conquistador reenactor at the 1958 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Actors Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Historical reenactments Costumes Special events Clothing and dress | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
a_s1576_63_c96-032 | Storytellers at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Storytelling Tent) (Sunday) | Sound | Actors Drummers (Musicians) Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Oral narratives Storytelling Narratives Trickster tales Animal tales Tales Puppets Personal experience narratives Seminole Indians Clogging Drum performance Workshops (Adult education) Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Storytellers at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Storytelling Tent) (Sunday)
- Date
- 1995-05-26
- Description
- 16 audio cassette recordings. Storytellers spoke between 10:00am and 5pm at the Storytelling Tent. (The Storytelling Auditorium area, which featured some of the same storytellers, was not recorded.) Wiseman, Spitzer, and Newsom served as the emcees. Several of the storytellers also sang songs. Mutima played the drums and kora during his stories; and Harshbarger used finger puppets to aid hers.
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a_s1576_75_c99-082 | Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 7) | Sound | Aerialists Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Acrobatics Games Games China Mah jong Recreation Leisure Acrobats | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |