Year

1978

Video Details

08:12; color; sound; V-192; flba010; S. 1579; Media 1980-1

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.

Contributors

WJCT-TV

Corporate Subject

Florida Folk Festival
Florida Folklife Program

Geographic Subject

Stephan Foster Memorial Park (White Springs, Fla.)
White Springs

Personal Subject

Boltin, "Cousin Thelma" (Thelma Ann), 1904-1992
Bulger, Peggy
Jabbour, Alan
Rinzler, Ralph
Ritchie, Jean

Subject

Folk art
Folk music
Folklore
Promotional films
Square dancing