print email comment close Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections 1937-1942 URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/florida/ Description: "A multiformat ethnographic field collection documenting African-American, Arabic, Bahamian, British-American, Cuban, Greek, Italian, Minorcan, Seminole, and Slavic cultures throughout Florida." Includes recordings of blues, work songs, children's songs, dance music, and religious music; interviews; an essay by ethnologist Zora Neale Hurston; a bibliography; and links. Searchable, and browsable by performer, audio title, manuscript title, and geographic location. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Publisher: Library of Congress Library of Congress Subject Headings: Field recordings Florida -- Social life and customs Folklore -- Florida LII Database Information: Record 8772 created by Tom McGibney on 08/22/2001 Last modification on 08/12/2008 Published: 08/22/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/8772