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Crossroads of the Heart: Creativity and Tradition in Mississippi
by Mississippi Arts Commission
http://www.arts.state.ms.us/crossroads/main.html

Educational website that profiles community-based Mississippi traditional artists and musicians. It includes a teacher's guide with background on the traditions described, a glossary of terms, student activities, and a resource guide for additional materials and websites. The site is organized into five sections: "Mississippi Music" (blues, gospel, fiddling, and sacred harp singing); "Handmade Objects" (Choctaw basketry, wood carving, pottery, and pine needle basketry); "Maritime Traditions" (boatbuilding, netmaking, Vietnamese fishing and boatbuilding, and model boatbuilding); "Mississippi Quilting" (quilter Hystercine Rankin, Crossroads Quilters, and quilter Elaine Carter); and "Mississippi Narrative" (storytelling, church oratory, and fiction). Each artistic form highlighted includes streaming audio of interviews and musical performances or photos documenting the traditional form. For upper elementary and middle school.

Grade Level: 6-8; 9-12 Curriculum: Performing Arts; Music; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture
Resource Type: Audio recordings; Activities Language: English
Subjects: Decorative arts; Crafts; Choctaw Indians; Wood-carving; Basket making; Fiddle tunes; Mississippi--Social life and customs; Folk art; Oral tradition; Quiltmakers; Music; Blues (Music); Maritime culture; Material culture; Ethnic arts; Ethnic folklore; Quilting; African Americans; Vietnamese Americans; Gospel music; Shape-note singing; Boatbuilding; Fishing nets; Fishing; Storytelling; Needlework
Geographic locations: Mississippi

Sponsoring Organization:
Mississippi Arts Commission
501 North West Street, Suite 1101A
Jackson MS 39201
(601) 359-6030
http://www.arts.state.ms.us/


Netmaking and Net Fishing in Florida
by State Library and Archives of Florida
http://www.floridamemory.com/OnlineClassroom/netmaking/

Lesson plans, photographs, and audio interviews with longtime net maker and Fernandina, Florida resident Billy Burbank III about the history and practice of the net making trade. Correlated to Florida State Standards, the lesson plans were created for grades 6-8 in a Social Studies or Language Arts curriculum. The primary source materials in this educational unit belong to the State Library and Archives of Florida's Florida Folklife Collection, available on the Florida Memory Web site.

Grade Level: 6-8 Curriculum: Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture
Resource Type: Primary sources; Lesson plans; Audio recordings Language: English
Subjects: Florida--Social life and customs; Fishing nets; Maritime culture; Fishing
Geographic locations: Florida

Sponsoring Organization:
State Library and Archives of Florida
500 S. Bronough Street
Tallahassee FL 32399-0250
(850) 245-6700
http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/index.cfm

Other Organizations:
Florida Memory Project
State Library and Archives of Florida
Tallahassee FL 32399-0250
(850) 245-6700
http://www.floridamemory.com/


Our Arts, Our Land: A Young Reader's Guide to Selected Folk Arts of Hawaii
by Michael Schuster, Carl Hefner, J.W. Junker
http://www2.hawaii.edu/%7Ehefner/pages/index.htm

Music, photographs, and interviews of traditional master artists from Hawaii designed as an introduction to folk arts for young people. The audio recordings were originally aired on Hawaii Public Radio as part of the "Pacific Visions" radio series. Hawaiian traditional arts represented include chant, lauhala weaving, fishnet knotting, quilting, slack key and steel guitar music, medicinal herbs, gourd carving, and hula ki'i puppetry. Also included are practitioners of Chinese Opera, Okinawan koten music and dance, Filipino dance, Korean pansori singing, and Japanese Mingei pottery. A folk arts quiz is provided for students.

Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 Curriculum: Performing Arts; Music; Art and Culture
Resource Type: Audio recordings; Activities Language: English; Hawaiian
Subjects: Decorative arts; Asian Americans; Crafts; Basket making; Folk artists; Folk art; Fishing nets; Pottery; Weaving; Music; Quilting; Puppets; Traditional medicine; Chinese Americans; Hawaiians; Japanese Americans; Maritime culture; Korean Americans; Chinese Opera; Hawaii--Social life and customs; Needlework
Geographic locations: Hawaii; East Asia; Asia

Sponsoring Organization:
Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
250 South Hotel Street, 2nd floor
Honolulu HI 96813
(808) 586-0300
http://hawaii.gov/sfca/


 

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