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Listen: The Folk ProgramWoman playing a West African talking drum at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities in Eatonville, Florida.
Image Number
FS99106
Photographer
Bucuvalas, Tina.
Date
1999
Date Note
Photographed on January 31, 1999.
Rights
Collection
Folklife collection
Series 1577, Eatonville's Zora Neale Hurston Festival
Series 1577, Eatonville's Zora Neale Hurston Festival
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Performing arts--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Arts (Performing)--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Drums
Festivals, Events and Conferences
Community rites--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Rites--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Practices
Ethnicity, African American
Ethnicity, African diaspora
Projects, Instate
Folklife and folklore projects
Music--Performance
Recreation--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Manners and customs
Festivals--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Women entertainers
Women musicians
Instrumentalists
Drummers (Musicians)
Ethnic arts
African American arts
Musical instruments--West Africa
Percussion instruments
Drum
African Americans--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
African American women--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Percussionists
Arts (Performing)--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Drums
Festivals, Events and Conferences
Community rites--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Rites--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Practices
Ethnicity, African American
Ethnicity, African diaspora
Projects, Instate
Folklife and folklore projects
Music--Performance
Recreation--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Manners and customs
Festivals--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Women entertainers
Women musicians
Instrumentalists
Drummers (Musicians)
Ethnic arts
African American arts
Musical instruments--West Africa
Percussion instruments
Drum
African Americans--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
African American women--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Percussionists
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
1 slide - col.
General Note
The talking drum is a West African drum whose pitch can be regulated to the extent that it is said the drum "talks". The player puts the drum under one shoulder and beats the instrument with a stick, by squeezing the cording on the drum the sound of the skin changes pitch.
Woman playing a West African talking drum at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities in Eatonville, Florida.
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