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Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs. Florida Folklife Archive
Title, Dates:
Arts Mania Festival slides, negatives, and audio tapes, 1990.
Amount:
0.50 cubic ft.
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ADP tapes
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Biographical/Historical:
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 Jacksonville Arts Mania Festival began in 1966 and was held annually until 1994. It was a multi-day festival held in the fall either in late September or early October. It had a multitude of activities including visual arts, a film festival, folklife demonstrations, theater and music, a Kid's Korner, and senior citizens' activities.
Summary:
This series contains the slides, negatives, and tapes made at the Arts Mania Festival in Jacksonville, Florida in 1990. The series consists of recordings, slides, and negatives of the a cappella gospel singing groups performing. The folk art demonstrations at the 1990 festival included performances by former Folklife Apprenticeship participant L.V. Starling, a group called Grace and several other groups whose names were not recorded. The groups performed a cappella gospel music.
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Searchable index to images and sound recordings available online at http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/
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Folk singers Florida Gospel music Florida Folklife.
Machine-readable artifacts. aat Slides. aat Negatives. aat Audio cassettes. aat
Jacksonville (Fla.)
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