DJ KJ and MC Kooley performing for a class

Rap musicians

Singers

Fieldwork

African Americans

Rapping

Classrooms

Elementary schools

Teaching of folklore

Education

Demonstrations

Schools

Hip hop music

Music performance

Singing

Performing arts

Oral performance

Children

Students

Fifteen color slides. DJ KJ grew up in Queens, while KC grew up in Baltimore. At the time of the images, they had been rapping together for about a year. Images of free-style rapping; hip hop dancing; scratching (scratching a needle on a phonographic record to make a rhythmic sound); and rehearsed rap songs. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1685

1987-03-05

Florida Folklife Program

Washington Elementary School (Riviera Beach, Fla.)

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1685

v. 9

Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Rosenberg, Jan

DJ KJ (Keith Jones), 1966-

MC Kooley-C (Calvin Puckett), 1970-

African American

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