Series Description

Record Group Number:

000158

Series Number:

.S 1664

Creator:

Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs. Florida Folklife Archive

Title/Dates:

Florida Folk Festival fieldwork and program planning and documentation files, 1983-1995, 1998, 1999.

Amounts:

6.00 cubic ft.

Organization / Arrangement:

Chronological by year, then by record type (e.g. photos, slides, program drafts).

Summary:

This series contains the records compiled by Folklife Bureau staff in researching and planning for the annual Florida Folk Festival, particularly the folklife areas that provide a different theme for each year's Folk Festival. Photographs, slides, audio tapes, field notes, informant information sheets, and one video tape document fieldwork carried out by Bureau staff, including identifying, contacting, and interviewing informants and inviting selected informants to participate as demonstrators or performers at the Folk Festival. The series also includes proposals for and overviews of folklife area themes; photographs and slides of events at the Folk Festivals; and drafts of text and proposed photographic illustrations for the program books distributed at each Folk Festival. Folklife themes documented in this series included ethnic celebrations such as the Jewish observance of Purim, Greek Epiphany, and Caribbean Carnival; African-American and Anglo-Celtic-American traditions in Florida; the folklife of transportation, including customs, music, and crafts associated with saddlemaking, boat building, wheel making, and laying of railroad tracks; and the folklife of Central Florida. The 79 audiotapes in this series document informant interviews with or musical performances by informants gathered during fieldwork or in performance at the Florida Folk Festival.

Associated Materials:

Series S1612, Florida Folk Festival Planning and Publicity Records, contains related records regarding FolkFestival planning.

Subject Access Fields:

Hurston, Zora Neale
Florida. Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center.
Folk art Florida
Folk artists Florida
Folk dance music Florida
Folk dancing Florida
Folk festivals Florida
Folk music groups Florida
Folk music Florida
Folk singers Florida
Folk songs Florida
Folklore Florida
Folklore Performance Florida
Folklorists Florida
Folk-rock music Florida
Purim Florida
Ethnic festivals Florida
Ethnic folklore Florida
Ethnic groups Florida
Jews Florida
Greeks Florida
Greek Americans Florida
Caribbean Americans Florida
Epiphany
Carnival Florida
Transportation Florida
Saddlery.
Boatbuilding Florida
Railroads Track
Wheelwrights Florida
African Americans Florida.
African Americans Folklore. Florida
British Americans Florida
Celts Florida
Folklife.
Video recordings. aat
Videocassettes. aat
Audio cassettes. aat
Audio tapes. aat
Photographs. aat
Negatives. aat
Slides. aat