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Renaissance Park Living Heritage Festival records, 2000-2001.
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.25 cubic ft. 2 video tapes
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Chronological by recording date.
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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."
Summary:
This series consists of video recordings generated by the Renaissance Park Living Heritage Festival in Marianna conducted as a result of a grant awarded to Danny Silvester, the festival's founder, from the Division of Cultural Affairs. The grant allowed Silvester to hire Martha Ellen Davis, an ethnomusicologist and anthropologist, to document Black folklife in Jackson County. Also included in this series are materials for the proposed budget and announcement of this fieldworker position.
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Series S1577 Volume 0077, Photographs and Slides of Folk Arts, Artisans, and Performers, contains slides taken by fieldworkers at the event in 2000.
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Florida Folklife Program
Folk festivals Florida African Americans Folklore. Florida Folk artists Florida Folk art Florida
Machine-readable artifacts. aat Video recordings. aat Interviews. aat
Jackson County (Fla.) Marianna (Fla.)
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