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The Resource Drop on down in Florida : field recordings of African American traditional music 1977-1980, edited by Dwight DeVane and Blaine Waide ; with contributions from Peggy A. Bulger, Doris J. Dyen, and David Evans

Drop on down in Florida : field recordings of African American traditional music 1977-1980, edited by Dwight DeVane and Blaine Waide ; with contributions from Peggy A. Bulger, Doris J. Dyen, and David Evans

Label
Drop on down in Florida : field recordings of African American traditional music 1977-1980
Title
Drop on down in Florida
Title remainder
field recordings of African American traditional music 1977-1980
Statement of responsibility
edited by Dwight DeVane and Blaine Waide ; with contributions from Peggy A. Bulger, Doris J. Dyen, and David Evans
Title variation
Field recordings of African American traditional music 1977-1980
Contributor
Editor
Performer
Writer of supplementary textual content
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
Based on four years of fieldwork throughout the state, the Florida Folklife Program released the two-album, 27-track LP Drop on Down in Florida: Recent Field Recordings of Afro-American Traditional Music in 1981. The album was intended to highlight American music traditions for a statewide public audience, blues and sacred traditions in particular. In recent years, the Folklife Program sought the opportunity to produce an expanded reissue of the album that would include previously unissued fieldwork recordings and photos. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork materials now housed in the State Archives of Florida, the expanded reissue includes nearly 80 previously-unreleased minutes of music on 28 new tracks, plus numerous photos documenting the musicians and communities that perpetuated these traditions
Related
Has edition
Accompanying matter
  • discography
  • bibliography
  • biography of performer or history of ensemble
  • historical information
  • ethnological information
Cataloging source
FWR
Date of event
1977-1980,
Form of composition
multiple forms
Format of music
not applicable
Language note
Sung in English
Music parts
not applicable
Other event information
Recorded
PerformerNote
Various performers
Place of event
Florida
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1944-
  • 1914-1984
  • 1887-1981
  • 1910-1984
  • 1910-1981
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • DeVane, Dwight
  • Waide, Blaine
  • Bulger, Peggy A.
  • Dyen, Doris J.
  • Evans, David
  • Dennis, Robert
  • Williams, Richard
  • Wilson, Ella Mae
  • Gillard, Willie
  • Murray, Emmett
  • Williams, Moses
  • Brown, Johnny
  • Williams, Lillie
  • Testerina Primitive Baptist Church
  • Miccosukee Church of God of Prophecy
  • Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven-Shape-Note Singing Convention
  • Southeast Alabama and Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • African Americans
  • Folk songs
  • Gospel music
  • Blues (Music)
  • Shape-note singing
  • Sacred songs
  • Noirs américains
  • Chansons folkloriques
  • Gospel
  • Shape notes (Musique)
  • Chants sacrés
  • African Americans
  • Blues (Music)
  • Folk songs
  • Gospel music
  • Sacred songs
  • Shape-note singing
  • Florida
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not applicable
Label
Drop on down in Florida : field recordings of African American traditional music 1977-1980, edited by Dwight DeVane and Blaine Waide ; with contributions from Peggy A. Bulger, Doris J. Dyen, and David Evans
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • Title from volume
  • Secular and sacred field recordings of African American traditional vocal music
  • Accompanying book contains extensive program, biographical, and historical notes
Accompanying material
1 volume (215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm)
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-209) and discography (pages 210-211)
Capture and storage technique
analog electrical storage
Carrier category
  • audio disc
  • volume
Carrier category code
  • sd
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
  • rdacarrier
  • rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Content category
  • performed music
  • text
Content type code
  • prm
  • txt
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • Mean mistreater blues
  • (1:52)
  • (Robert Dennis, vocals, guitar, Jacksonville)
  • Tain't but one thing that grieves my mind
  • (2:18)
  • Baby please don't go
  • (2:39)
  • Old forty
  • (3:11)
  • (Richard Williams, vocals, guitar, Jacksonville)
  • Disc 1.
  • Careless love
  • (3:48)
  • Polk County blues
  • (4:10)
  • (Ella Mae Wilson, vocals ; Richard Williams, vocals, guitar, Jacksonville)
  • Polk County Blues
  • (Willie Gillard, vocals, guitar, Tampa)
  • (3:31)
  • Old-time rounders
  • (2:54)
  • Secular recordings.
  • She's a fool, she ain't got no sense
  • (3:03)
  • Mobile blues
  • (2:55)
  • I'm gonna dig myself a hole
  • (3:07)
  • I'll find my way
  • (2:13)
  • Drinkin' bad bad whiskey
  • (3:15)
  • Early one foggy morning
  • (Emmett Murray, vocals, electric guitar, Pahokee)
  • I'm from Itta Bena, Mississippi
  • (0:12)
  • Rolling and tumbling
  • (2:05)
  • Sitting on top of the world
  • (2:52)
  • Mama got more out of me away from home
  • (0:33)
  • I was Natalie Roberta's son
  • (5:18)
  • (3:05)
  • Harmonica solo
  • (1:10)
  • Harmonica "hustle"
  • (0:51)
  • The train
  • (1:54)
  • Catfish blues
  • (2:51)
  • Come back baby
  • Boogie
  • (3:07)
  • Apple farm blues
  • (3:48)
  • 13 Highway
  • (2:17)
  • Which way did my baby go?
  • (2:17)
  • (Moses Williams, narration, vocals, one-string zither, harmonica, Waverly)
  • (1:56)
  • Questionnaire blues
  • (2:29)
  • (1:14)
  • I don't know what I'd do without the Lord
  • (1:10)
  • (Johnny Brown, vocals, guitar, St. Petersburg)
  • Motherless children
  • (2:32)
  • Do, Lord, remember me
  • (3:23)
  • Trial in judgement
  • (3:51)
  • Disc 2.
  • When the saints go marching in :
  • When the moon go down in blood
  • (2:47)
  • You got to move
  • (3:02)
  • I knew it was the blood
  • (2:47)
  • In the morning
  • (3:38)
  • Ella Mae Wilson, Lillie B. Williams, vocals ; Richard Williams, vocals, guitar, Jacksonville)
  • Sacred recordings.
  • He's a battle axe
  • (Ella Mae (Williams) Wilson, lead vocal ; Lillie B. Williams, vocals, piano)
  • (3:27)
  • I don't know what I'd do without the Lord :
  • Did Christ o'er sinners weep?
  • The weeping Savior
  • (Testerina Primitive Baptist Church, Reverend G.W. Hill and Congregation, Leon County)
  • (11:30)
  • Altar call ; Congregational prayer ; He set me free
  • (Miccosukee Church of God of Prophecy, Bishop J.B. Beckwith and Congregation, Leon County)
  • That's all right
  • (6:47)
  • God's gonna set the world on fire
  • (2:33)
  • Inside the pearly gates
  • (4:26)
  • (Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven-Shape-Note Singing Convention, Crestview)
  • The old ship of Zion
  • (2:54)
  • Florida storm
  • (4:45)
  • (1:31)
  • Service of the Lord
  • (2:47)
  • Sweet morning
  • (2:19)
  • Alas! and Did my Saviour bleed
  • (3:13)
  • Pisgah
  • (2:34)
  • Parting hand
  • (3:04)
  • Precious Lord, take my hand (1:14)
  • (Southeast Alabama and Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention, Campbellton)
  • Will the circle be unbroken
  • (1:12)
  • He got the whole world in His hand
  • Dwight DeVane
  • Moses "Doorman" Williams: One-String Master
  • David Evans
  • Recent traditions and new recordings : African American sacred music in Florida
  • Blaine Waide
  • Looking Back / Looking Forward: Sacred Group-Singing Traditions
  • Doris J. Dyen
  • Field recording session index
  • Bibliography
  • Discography
  • Contents of book:
  • Reflections
  • Peggy A. Bulger
  • Presenting the 2012 edition of Drop on down in Florida
  • Blaine Waide
  • I'm going down to Florida : African American migration and musical traditions across time and place
  • Dwight DeVane ; revised and edited by David Evans
  • Fieldwork overview and new recordings : African American secular music in Florida
Control code
821216900
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. +
Dimensions
  • 4 3/4 in.
  • 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
Extent
2 audio discs
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Kind of cutting
not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
mass produced
Kind of material
plastic with metal
Lccn
2016615211
Media category
  • audio
  • unmediated
Media MARC source
  • rdamedia
  • rdamedia
Media type code
  • s
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 775
Other control number
880226002428
Other physical details
digital, stereo, CD audio
Publisher number
DTD-24
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
  • sound disc
  • regular print
Speed
1.4m. per second (discs)
System control number
(OCoLC)821216900
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable
Label
Drop on down in Florida : field recordings of African American traditional music 1977-1980, edited by Dwight DeVane and Blaine Waide ; with contributions from Peggy A. Bulger, Doris J. Dyen, and David Evans
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • Title from volume
  • Secular and sacred field recordings of African American traditional vocal music
  • Accompanying book contains extensive program, biographical, and historical notes
Accompanying material
1 volume (215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm)
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-209) and discography (pages 210-211)
Capture and storage technique
analog electrical storage
Carrier category
  • audio disc
  • volume
Carrier category code
  • sd
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
  • rdacarrier
  • rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Content category
  • performed music
  • text
Content type code
  • prm
  • txt
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • Mean mistreater blues
  • (1:52)
  • (Robert Dennis, vocals, guitar, Jacksonville)
  • Tain't but one thing that grieves my mind
  • (2:18)
  • Baby please don't go
  • (2:39)
  • Old forty
  • (3:11)
  • (Richard Williams, vocals, guitar, Jacksonville)
  • Disc 1.
  • Careless love
  • (3:48)
  • Polk County blues
  • (4:10)
  • (Ella Mae Wilson, vocals ; Richard Williams, vocals, guitar, Jacksonville)
  • Polk County Blues
  • (Willie Gillard, vocals, guitar, Tampa)
  • (3:31)
  • Old-time rounders
  • (2:54)
  • Secular recordings.
  • She's a fool, she ain't got no sense
  • (3:03)
  • Mobile blues
  • (2:55)
  • I'm gonna dig myself a hole
  • (3:07)
  • I'll find my way
  • (2:13)
  • Drinkin' bad bad whiskey
  • (3:15)
  • Early one foggy morning
  • (Emmett Murray, vocals, electric guitar, Pahokee)
  • I'm from Itta Bena, Mississippi
  • (0:12)
  • Rolling and tumbling
  • (2:05)
  • Sitting on top of the world
  • (2:52)
  • Mama got more out of me away from home
  • (0:33)
  • I was Natalie Roberta's son
  • (5:18)
  • (3:05)
  • Harmonica solo
  • (1:10)
  • Harmonica "hustle"
  • (0:51)
  • The train
  • (1:54)
  • Catfish blues
  • (2:51)
  • Come back baby
  • Boogie
  • (3:07)
  • Apple farm blues
  • (3:48)
  • 13 Highway
  • (2:17)
  • Which way did my baby go?
  • (2:17)
  • (Moses Williams, narration, vocals, one-string zither, harmonica, Waverly)
  • (1:56)
  • Questionnaire blues
  • (2:29)
  • (1:14)
  • I don't know what I'd do without the Lord
  • (1:10)
  • (Johnny Brown, vocals, guitar, St. Petersburg)
  • Motherless children
  • (2:32)
  • Do, Lord, remember me
  • (3:23)
  • Trial in judgement
  • (3:51)
  • Disc 2.
  • When the saints go marching in :
  • When the moon go down in blood
  • (2:47)
  • You got to move
  • (3:02)
  • I knew it was the blood
  • (2:47)
  • In the morning
  • (3:38)
  • Ella Mae Wilson, Lillie B. Williams, vocals ; Richard Williams, vocals, guitar, Jacksonville)
  • Sacred recordings.
  • He's a battle axe
  • (Ella Mae (Williams) Wilson, lead vocal ; Lillie B. Williams, vocals, piano)
  • (3:27)
  • I don't know what I'd do without the Lord :
  • Did Christ o'er sinners weep?
  • The weeping Savior
  • (Testerina Primitive Baptist Church, Reverend G.W. Hill and Congregation, Leon County)
  • (11:30)
  • Altar call ; Congregational prayer ; He set me free
  • (Miccosukee Church of God of Prophecy, Bishop J.B. Beckwith and Congregation, Leon County)
  • That's all right
  • (6:47)
  • God's gonna set the world on fire
  • (2:33)
  • Inside the pearly gates
  • (4:26)
  • (Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven-Shape-Note Singing Convention, Crestview)
  • The old ship of Zion
  • (2:54)
  • Florida storm
  • (4:45)
  • (1:31)
  • Service of the Lord
  • (2:47)
  • Sweet morning
  • (2:19)
  • Alas! and Did my Saviour bleed
  • (3:13)
  • Pisgah
  • (2:34)
  • Parting hand
  • (3:04)
  • Precious Lord, take my hand (1:14)
  • (Southeast Alabama and Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention, Campbellton)
  • Will the circle be unbroken
  • (1:12)
  • He got the whole world in His hand
  • Dwight DeVane
  • Moses "Doorman" Williams: One-String Master
  • David Evans
  • Recent traditions and new recordings : African American sacred music in Florida
  • Blaine Waide
  • Looking Back / Looking Forward: Sacred Group-Singing Traditions
  • Doris J. Dyen
  • Field recording session index
  • Bibliography
  • Discography
  • Contents of book:
  • Reflections
  • Peggy A. Bulger
  • Presenting the 2012 edition of Drop on down in Florida
  • Blaine Waide
  • I'm going down to Florida : African American migration and musical traditions across time and place
  • Dwight DeVane ; revised and edited by David Evans
  • Fieldwork overview and new recordings : African American secular music in Florida
Control code
821216900
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. +
Dimensions
  • 4 3/4 in.
  • 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
Extent
2 audio discs
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Kind of cutting
not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
mass produced
Kind of material
plastic with metal
Lccn
2016615211
Media category
  • audio
  • unmediated
Media MARC source
  • rdamedia
  • rdamedia
Media type code
  • s
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 775
Other control number
880226002428
Other physical details
digital, stereo, CD audio
Publisher number
DTD-24
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
  • sound disc
  • regular print
Speed
1.4m. per second (discs)
System control number
(OCoLC)821216900
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable

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