Blues pianist Alex McBride playing at Pine Estates Elementary School

Fieldwork

Music performance

Piano music

Pianos

Piano music (Blues)

African Americans

Students

Elementary schools

Performing arts

Pianists

Blues singers

Twenty-three color slides. Images of blues pianist playing for elementary students. For a recording of McBride playing, see S 1618, box 4, tape 16; for an interview with McBride see S 1618, box 4, tape 17. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1989-09

Florida Folklife Program

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1577

v. 55

S91-258 - S91-280

Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project

Hansen, Gregory

McBride, Alex, 1914-1999

African American

1588

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