| s1284_volusia | Directory of Elected and Appointed Officials in Volusia County, 1870-1969 | Text | Public officers
Indexes
County government officials and employees | /FMP/state-county-officers/thumbnails/s1284_v13_206.jpg |
| Dulcimer player Jean Ritchie at the 1976 Florida Folk Festival | Dulcimer player Jean Ritchie at the 1976 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Dulcimer
String instruments
Musical instruments
Old time music
Music performance
Performing arts
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Florida Folk Arts Conference 1978 | Florida Folk Arts Conference 1978 | Moving Image | Folk art
Folk music
Folklore
Promotional films
Square dancing | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/folkartsconference.jpg |
Florida Folk Arts Conference 1978
- Date
- 1978
- Description
- This film has footage of the 1978 Florida Folk Arts Conference held at the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs, Florida. Folklorist Alan Jabbour, director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, defines folk art and folklife for an off-camera interviewer. Folklorists Peggy Bulger and Ralph Rinzler, dulcimer player Jean Ritchie, shakuhachi player and ethnomusicologist Dale Olsen, and Florida Folk Festival director Thelma Boltin are also shown. The film contains additional footage of a square dance and musical performances. Produced by WJCT-TV. Photographs from the conference can be found in S 1577, Box 16, folder 33.
- Collection
| s500_r | Florida State Prison Register: R, 1875-1959 | Text | Prisoners
Criminal records
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Capital punishment
Probation
Prison sentences
Crime
Criminals
Florida--Crimes and criminals | /fmp/prison-registers/thumbnails/s500_book-r_001.jpg |
Florida State Prison Register: R, 1875-1959
- Date
- 1959 (circa)
- Description
- Typewritten list of inmates incarcerated at the Florida State Prison with surnames beginning with the letter R. Inmates are generally listed chronologically.
- Collection
| FA4040 | Folk musician and folklorist Jean Ritchie playing the dulcimer. | | Musical instruments
Arts (Performing)
Musical traditions
Musical traditions, Anglo-American
Dulcimer
Women folklorists
Folklorists
Music--Performance
Folk music
Folk songs
Singing
Women folk musicians
Women musicians
Musicians
Entertainers
Performing arts
Folk singers | /fpc/folklife/fa4040.gif |
| FA4039 | Folk musician and folklorist Jean Ritchie. | | Musical instruments
Dulcimer
Women folklorists
Folklorists
Folk singers
Folk musicians
Women musicians
Musicians
Portraits
Entertainers | /fpc/folklife/fa4039.gif |
| flp_ritchie | Folklife People: Jean Ritchie | Interactive Resource | Folk Music
Appalachian Dulcimer | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_people.png |
Folklife People: Jean Ritchie
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Appalachian balladeer and folklorist Jean Ritchie possessed a high lonesome sound ornamented with trills and quivers in the "good old way" of her Kentucky forbearers. A member of one of the great Cumberland Mountain ballad-singing families, she was able to learn hundreds of Appalachian ballads and folk songs as part of an oral tradition that stretched back to the British Isles. Often accompanying herself on the lap dulcimer, she brought her repertoire to New York City in the late 1940s, influencing many artists in the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene. In spite of the fact that she preferred singing unaccompanied, the delicate sound of the dulcimer became one of her signatures, leading to a surge in the use of the instrument among folk music enthusiasts worldwide. Ms. Ritchie also published protest songs about conditions in the mines of Kentucky, and traveled to Britain and Ireland on a Fulbright Scholarship to collect ballads and trace the origins of the Appalachian tunes she knew so well. "The Mother of Folk," as she was often called, brought ballads and work songs to folk festivals across the country in an effort to preserve and promote the traditional music of her native Appalachia.
- Collection
| Jean Ritchie concert at Stephen Foster Center | Jean Ritchie concert at Stephen Foster Center | Still Image | Performing arts
Performers
Music performance
Folk singers
String instruments
Musical instruments
Concerts
Autoharp
Dulcimer music
Singers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Jean Ritchie concert at Stephen Foster Center
- Date
- 1976-12-05
- Description
- Eighteen color slides. For a recording of the concert, see S 1576 reel T77-262. Ritchie was born in Viper, Kentucky to a family that preserved and sang many old time (mountain) songs -- many dating back to England and Scotland -- numbering by Ritchie's count to well over 300. Raised within the Appalachian-based musical tradition, Ritchie graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1946, after which she moved to New York City as a social worker. While there, she became involved in the emerging folk revival scene, performing the old family songs on her dulcimer and autoharp. She recorded for the newly-created Electra Records, starting in 1952. By the 1960s, she was a well-respected and sought after performer and authority of Appalachian music. By 1976, she and her husband, photographer George Pickow, started their own label, Greenhays Records. Many of the songs performed here appear on their first self-released album: None But One. For other Ritchie recordings, see reels T78-312 through T78-314; T79-1.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t78-313 | Jean Ritchie concert at the Florida Folk Arts Conference | Sound | Special events
Conferences and seminars series
Concerts
Music performance
Old time music
Performing arts
Singing
Dulcimer
Dulcimer music
Gospel music
Religious music
Religious songs
Singers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Jean Ritchie concert at the Florida Folk Arts Conference
- Date
- 1978-01-16
- Description
- Two reel to reel recordings. The first part of the concert is on T78-314, while the second part is on side 2 of T78-313. A concert by famed Appalachian dulcimer player Ritchie that was hosted by the Florida Folklife Program at the Stephen Foster Center as part of the Florida Folk Arts Conference that included folklorists and historians from the Library of Congress (LOC), Smithsonian Institute (SI), University of Florida, as well as throughout Florida and the South. Florida Folk festival director Boltin emceed the concert, and spoke briefly about Stephen Foster. Recordings of the rest of conference can be found on T78-301 through T78-312. Ritchie was born in Viper, Kentucky to a family that preserved and sang many old time (mountain) songs -- many dating back to England and Scotland -- numbering by Ritchie's count to well over 300. Raised within the Appalachian-based musical tradition, Ritchie graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1946, after which she moved to New York City as a social worker. While there, she became involved in the emerging folk revival scene, performing the old family songs on her dulcimer and autoharp. She recorded for the newly-created Elektra Records, starting in 1952. By the 1960s, she was a well-respected and sought after performer and authority of Appalachian music. For other Ritchie recordings, see reels T77-262 and T79-1.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t77-262 | Jean Ritchie concert at the Stephen Foster Center | Sound | Music performance
Performing arts
Autoharp music
Dulcimer music
Old time music
String instruments
Singing
A capella singing
Concerts
Christmas music
Musicians
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Jean Ritchie concert at the Stephen Foster Center
- Date
- 1976-12-05
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Images from the concert can be found in S 1576, volume 1: slides S77-78 through S77-95. Ritchie was born in Viper, Kentucky to a family that preserved and sang many old time (mountain) songs -- many dating back to England and Scotland -- numbering by Ritchie's count to well over 300. Raised within the Appalachian-based musical tradition, Ritchie graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1946, after which she moved to New York City as a social worker. While there, she became involved in the emerging folk revival scene, performing the old family songs on her dulcimer and autoharp. She recorded for the newly-created Electra Records, starting in 1952. By the 1960s, she was a well-respected and sought after performer and authority of Appalachian music. By 1976, she and her husband, photographer George Pickow, started their own label, Greenhays Records. Many of the songs performed here appear on their first self-released album: None But One. For other Ritchie recordings, see reels T78-312 through T78-314; T79-1.
- Collection
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