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Sacred Harp singing by women of the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida

Sacred Harp singing by women of the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida
Date
1979
Collection
Sacred Harp singing by women of the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida

Sacred Harp singing by women of the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida
Sacred Harp slide-tape presentation

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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Sacred Harp slide-tape presentation

Sacred Harp slide-tape presentation
Sacred music from the Drop on Down in Florida album (Sides 3 and 4)

Sacred music from the Drop on Down in Florida album (Sides 3 and 4)
Date
1981
Description
One audio cassette. Recording of the last two sides of the FFP-produced album, Drop on Down in Florida, which was a collection of fieldwork recordings of African American music in Florida released in the early 1980s as a two-record LP.
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Sacred music from the Drop on Down in Florida album (Sides 3 and 4)

Sacred music from the Drop on Down in Florida album (Sides 3 and 4)
Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 1)

Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 1)
Date
1994-05-28
Description
One audio cassette. Albritton was from Lithia, Florida. All songs derive from either the BF White Sacred Harp book (Cooper Revision) or the original Sacred harp book (Denson Revision). Valada was the author of Poetically Just us. She and Tina Flewellyn explained their concept of stoetry -- poetic stories.
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Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 1)

Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 1)
Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 2)

Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 2)
Date
1994-05-28
Description
One audio cassette. Albritton was from Lithia, Florida. This session was begun on C94-54. All songs derive from either the BF White Sacred Harp book (Cooper Revision) or the original Sacred harp book (Denson Revision). Yao played the Chinese zither -- the zheng. The Zheng is a Chinese zither, dating back to the third century BC. Yao was born in Shanghai to a musical family. In 1990 she moved to Florida, and worked with the Florida Folklife Program's apprenticeship program. Her performance concludes on C94-56.
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Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 2)

Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 2)
Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 5)

Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 5)
Date
1994-05-28
Description
One audio cassette. Ogden was the emcee. Albritton was from Lithia, Florida. All songs derive from either the BF White Sacred Harp book (Cooper Revision) or the original Sacred harp book (Denson Revision). He discusses his life and his shape note singing -- the conclusion of his program from C94-57. Chancey was a storyteller from Bartow.
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Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 5)

Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 5)
Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)
Date
2000-05-27
Description
One audio cassette tape. Stone served as emcee. Ronnie Dale Lee, a member of the Sacred Harp/shape note singing Lee family, discusses wood crafts such as bread bowls, walking sticks and toy boats made out of tupelo. He also discusses his family from Hoboken, GA, shaped note singing and railroading.
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Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)
Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)
Date
2000-05-27
Description
One audio cassette tape. Stone served as emcee. The Rodenberry Family (Mrs. Bernice Roddenberry and daughters: Betty Owens, Doris Lloyd, Katherine Lett, Debbie Todd, Judy Drury, Latrell McDowell and Sheila Carter) perform the several Sacred Harp/shape note pieces. They also discuss gator hunting and hollering, whippings and making items out of palmetto. Attached to index sheets is a copy of a shape note singing handout including "Amazing Grace" and "Love Divine".
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Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)
Section of "Rudiments of Music" from a revised copy of the "Sacred Harp" by W.M. Cooper

Section of "Rudiments of Music" from a revised copy of the "Sacred Harp" by W.M. Cooper
Date
1979
Collection
Section of "Rudiments of Music" from a revised copy of the "Sacred Harp" by W.M. Cooper

Section of "Rudiments of Music" from a revised copy of the "Sacred Harp" by W.M. Cooper
Section of the cover from a copy of the revised "Sacred Harp" by W.M. Cooper

Section of the cover from a copy of the revised "Sacred Harp" by W.M. Cooper
Date
1979
Collection
Section of the cover from a copy of the revised "Sacred Harp" by W.M. Cooper

Section of the cover from a copy of the revised "Sacred Harp" by W.M. Cooper
Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
FS79224BSacred Harp singing by women of the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida4-Shaped-Note singing
Sacred music
Religious groups, Baptist
Religious groups--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora
Community culture--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora
Shape note singing
Singing--Religious aspects
Music--Performance
Baptists--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora
Women--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora		/fpc/folklife/fs79224b.gif
a_s1576_05_c81-022Sacred Harp slide-tape presentationsoundEducation
Interviews
Shape note singing
A capella singing
Field recordings
Religious songs
Sacred Harp, Cooper revision		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_05_c81-032Sacred music from the Drop on Down in Florida album (Sides 3 and 4)SoundSingers
Musicians
Shape note singers
African Americans
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Singing
Gospel songs
Musical tradition, sacred
Shape note singing
Religious music
Religious songs
A capella singers
A capella singing
Choirs (music)
Choir singing		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_33_c94-054Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 1)SoundFolk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Storytelling
A capella singers
A capella singing
Oral narratives
Tales
Shape note singing
Musical tradition, sacred
Personal experience narratives
Religious songs
Life histories
Singing
African Americans
Oral poetry
Narrative poetry
Storytellers
Shape note singers
Poets		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_33_c94-055Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 2)SoundFolk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Storytelling
A capella singers
A capella singing
Oral narratives
Tales
Shape note singing
Musical tradition, sacred
Personal experience narratives
Religious songs
Life histories
Singing
Chinese Americans
Arts, Chinese
Asian Americans
Zheng
Zither
String instruments
Storytellers
Shape note singers
Musicians		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_33_c94-058Saturday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 5)SoundFolk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Music performance
A capella singers
A capella singing
Musical tradition, sacred
Shape note singing
Religious songs
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Storytelling
Tales
Shape note singers
Storytellers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_83_c00-076Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)SoundSingers
Woodworkers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Personal experience narratives
Life histories
Wood craft
Woodwork
Shape note singing
Family history		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_83_c00-078Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)SoundSingers
Shape note singers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Personal experience narratives
Music performance
Shape note singing
Alligator hunting
Family history		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
FS79257BSection of "Rudiments of Music" from a revised copy of the "Sacred Harp" by W.M. CooperMusic
Shape note hymnals
Music theory--Elementary works
Sacred music
Shape note music
Music publications		/fpc/folklife/fs79257b.gif
FS79357BSection of the cover from a copy of the revised "Sacred Harp" by W.M. CooperSongbooks
Music publications		/fpc/folklife/fs79357b.gif