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Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs. Florida Folklife Archive
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Golden Gospel - Afro American Roots grant records, 1985.
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0.25 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 Triumphant Gospel Singers Association of Jacksonville, Florida applied for this grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to produce a concert focusing on Black a cappella gospel quartet music and Black Spirituals. The concert was a memorial to Otis Jackson, a gospel song composer, singer, promoter and radio announcer. Jackson was a nationally known figure responsible for Black gospel singers in the United States to start traveling from one city to another. He was also instrumental in getting the very first Black gospel recordings produced.
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This series documents funding and production of a concert featuring Black gospel quartets and spirituals. The series contains a copy of the grant, correspondence, site evaluation and copies of the gospel concert programs containing biographies of a number of gospel quartets and groups.
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Gospel music Florida Folk music groups Florida Folk music Florida Folk singers Florida Black Americans United States. African Americans Florida. African American churches Florida. Spirituals (Songs) Folklife.
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