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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 Mexican American Music Survey was created to document the musical traditions of Florida's various Mexican-American communities: Apopka, South Dade County, Immokalee, the St. Johns River Basin, and Central Florida. Funded by a grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Community Folklife Program, the survey was conducted between 1994 and 1996 by folklorist Robert Stone and included images, sound recordings, and field notes. Among the musical traditions were serenatas, quinceanara ritual music, ranchera Michoacana, mariachi, norteno, Tejano, and pop music. At the end of the project, a sampler music tape was created by the Florida Folklife Program for distribution to various libraries.
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This series consists of records generated by the Mexican American Music Survey conducted to document the musical traditions of Florida's various Mexican-American communities. The series includes the grant application and supporting documentation; correspondence; research files including newspaper clippings and musical flyers; handwritten field notes; photographic images (slides, proof sheets, and negatives); and audio recordings (audio cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, and digital audio tapes).
Two notebooks of slides date from November of 1994 to July of 1996 and include index sheets. Audio recordings include field recordings of various singers and musicians (7 audio cassettes and 14 digital audio tapes), three reel-to-reel copies of the field recordings, and an audio tape copy of the Mexican Music Survey sampler tape. Additional audio recording includes 19 compact discs of survey audio.
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Searchable index to images and sound recordings available online at http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/ Folder listing available.
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Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs. Florida Folklife Archive Florida. Dept. of State. Florida. Dept. of State. --Division of Historical Resources.
Folklife. Folk singers Florida Hispanic Americans Florida Hispanic Americans Folklore Florida Hispanic Americans Social life and customs Florida Latin Americans United States --Florida Mexican Americans Florida Mexican Americans Folklore Florida Mexican Americans Social life and customs Florida Folklorists Florida Folk dance music Florida Folklore Performance Florida Folk music Florida Research grants Florida Concerts Florida
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Orlando (Fla.) Pierson (Fla.) Orange County (Fla.) Apopka, Lake (Fla.) Volusia County (Fla.) Collier County (Fla.) Seville (Fla.) Lake County (Fla.)
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