The Florida folklife reader / edited by Tina Bucuvalas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bucuvalas, Tina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore--Florida.

Folklore.

Florida--Social life and customs.

Florida.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

xx, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2012]

Summary:

Florida's cultural foundation includes Seminoles, Anglo-Celtic Crackers, African Americans, transplanted northerners, and ethnic communities, as well as cultural syntheses developed from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries in Key West, Tampa, St. Augustine, and Pensacola. In recent decades, the state's population has been strongly affected by large-scale immigration from Cuba, South America, Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. South Florida leads other regions in the development of a contemporary cultural synthesis, but Orlando and Tampa are rapidly evolving, and even north Florida is experiencing a significant shift.

Although several books detail the traditions of specific Florida regions or folk groups, this is the first to provide an overview of Florida folklife. The Florida Folklife Reader brings together essays written by folklorists, anthropologists, and ethnomusicologists on a wide array of topics. Book jacket.

Contents:

Key Largo to Marathon A Report on the Folklife of the Upper and Middle Keys / Brent Cantrell Cantrell, Brent 3

African American and West Indian Folklife in South Florida / Joyce M. Jackson Jackson, Joyce M. 10

The Patronal Festival of Vueltas in Cuban Miami: "No One Loses, They Always Win!" / Tina Bucuvalas Bucuvalas, Tina 23

Michael Kernahan A Life in Pan / Stephen Stuempfle Stuempfle, Stephen 35

Folklife of Miami's Nicaraguan Communities / Katherine Borland Borland, Katherine 50

Exploring Peruvian Music in Miami / Martha Ellen Davis Davis, Martha Ellen 67

The Seminole Family Camp / Ormond H. Loomis Loomis, Ormond H. 84

Sacred Steel / Robert L. Stone Stone, Robert L. 90

Musical Practice and Memory on the Edge of Two Worlds Kalymnian Tsambóuna and Song Repertoire in the Family of Nikitas Tsimouris / Anna Lomax Wood Wood, Anna Lomax 96

Eternal Be Their Memory! / Stavros K. Frangos Frangos, Stavros K. 154

Richard Seaman's Presence within Florida's Soundscape / Gregory Hansen Hansen, Gregory 161

Legacy and Meaning in the Changing Sacred Harp Tradition of the Okefenokee Region / Laurie K. Sommers Sommers, Laurie K. 178

Nativism and Cracker Revival at the Florida Folk Festival / Martha Nelson Nelson, Martha 207

"The Rest Is Up to You and Me" Sunday Morning Band and Ritual Identity in the Florida Panhandle / Jerrilyn Mcgregory Mcgregory, Jerrilyn 225

Maritime Folklife / Florida Folklife Folklife, Florida, Nancy Michael Michael, Nancy, Nancy Nusz Nusz, Nancy, David Taylor Taylor, David, Ormond H. Loomis Loomis, Ormond H., Peter Roller Roller, Peter, Merri Belland Belland, Merri 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1617031410

9781617031403

1617031402

9781617031427

1617031429

OCLC:

711864779

Publisher Number:

99946104762