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Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs. Florida Folklife Archive
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Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project slides, tapes, and records, 1976-1988.
Amount:
7.25 cubic ft.
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Arranged by record type: administrative files, informant files, informant interview and presentation audio recordings, Palm Beach County information, school evaluations, and slides. Within each record type, arrangement is alphabetical except for the slides, which are chronological.
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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 Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project was a cooperative venture between the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs and the School Board of Palm Beach County. It was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, Folk Arts Program. It was established to enhance the existing Florida Studies component of the fourth grade social studies curriculum. The aim of the project was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the rapidly growing and highly mobile student population of the county by presenting living folk traditions of the region.
Summary:
This series contains files and audio materials documenting the the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs' efforts to introduce folklife topics into the 4th grade curriculum in Palm Beach County. It consists of administrative files, informant files, informant interview and presentation audio recordings, Palm Beach County information, school evaluations, and slides documenting folk artists' skills such as storytelling, oral history, washboard blues playing, bagpiping, quiltmaking, ranching, farming, sugar cane growing and processing, and rapping. Some of the ethnic origins include Jamaican, Polish, and Ukrainian.
The administrative files contain correspondence between the folklife administrator and the principals and teachers of the schools and the artists. Also contained in these files are artist contracts and agreements, the final report from the project, project description, and teacher workshop materials.
The informant files contain informant information sheets, tape index sheets, transcripts of taped interviews in some cases, and informant depository agreements. The informant information sheets contain the artists' name, their art, date of the interview, interviewer's name, recording material, and subjects which the artist discussed. Informant interview and presentation audio recordings are recordings of the artists when interviewed by Jan Rosenburg or when the artist was presenting before a class. There are 120 cassette tapes and one reel-to-reel recording.
The Palm Beach County information contains area history and cultural information on topics such as the Flagler Museum, The Breakers Resort, various chambers of commerce, and the sugar industry.
The school evaluations are evaluations the school children and teachers made at the completion of the project.
The slides depict the folk artists during their initial interview or during their presentations. There are 12 notebooks of slides dating from August of 1986 to April of 1988. There are three sets of slides and slide log sheets numbered 1 through 70, 1 through 33, and 1 through 14 which encompass the same dates although no dates are repeated between the three.
Finding Aids:
Searchable index to images and sound recordings available online at http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/ . In addition, Volume 13 of the notebooks contains a list of all of the informants and can be used as somewhat of an index to the collection. It lists all of the informants, the items contained in their files, if the informant was recorded on audio tape, if they participated in the project, and on what page their slides appear in the notebooks. #
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Selected images available online at http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/
for detailed listing.