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Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs. Florida Folklife Archive
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Florida Folklife News issues, 1978-1982.
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0.50 cubic ft.
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Legislation in 1979 (79-322, SB 1208) transferred the Florida Folk Arts component of the Stephen Foster Memorial to the Florida Department of State. Operating as the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs from ca. 1985 until 1995, the Bureau coordinated the annual Florida Folk Festival and directed such programs as Folk Arts Apprenticeships, Folk Arts in Education, Folk Heritage awards, annual research surveys, and numerous other projects and programs. From 1995 through June 30, 2021, the renamed and reorganized Florida Folklife Program continued the majority of these operations from within the Division of Historical Resources, Bureau of Historic Preservation in Tallahassee. During the 1995 reorganization, the State Archives of Florida acquired the Florida Folklife Collection from the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs’ previously maintained Florida Folklife Archives. Legislation in 2021 (2021-71, L. O. F., HB 909) transferred the Florida Folklife Program and its operations from the Division of Historical Resources to the newly renamed Division of Arts and Culture, previously the Division of Cultural Resources, effective July 1, 2021. The program is charged to "identify, research, interpret, and present Florida folk arts, artists, performers, folklore, traditions, customs, and cultural heritage and make folk cultural resources and folklife projects available throughout the state."
The Florida Folklife News began publication in 1978 in response to requests generated at the First Annual Florida Folk Arts Conference held on White Springs, Florida in 1978. It was intended to keep subscribers informed of folklife activities in Florida and in the southeast. The newsletter ceased publication with volume five, number five in 1982.
The articles from the Florida Folklife News concern all things folklife or folklore. The earlier editions concerned any news items related to folk information in the country. Later editions were generally concerned with folk information in Florida and the Southeast; however, advertisements for employment from all over the country were listed and there was a column entitled "National News" which covered events from all over the country.
The information in the Folklife News included calendars of folklife events and folk festivals in Florida and the southeast, new releases of books and movies concerning folklife, winners of grants for folklife studies, National Endowment of the Arts and Humanities grants news, and notices of workshops relating to folklife which took place around the state.
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This series contains the entire run, except for one issue, of the Florida Folklife News newsletter from 1978 to 1982. This consists of five volumes with six issues in each volume except for volume five, which contains only the first five issues.
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Folk literature Florida Folklore Florida Folklife.
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