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Audio Recording Post-fieldwork meeting for schoolteachers, Tifton, Tift County, Georgia, part 2

Teacher's Meeting, part 2, Tifton, Georgia, side A

About this Item

Title

  • Post-fieldwork meeting for schoolteachers, Tifton, Tift County, Georgia, part 2

Names

  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Recordist)
  • Blackmarr, Syd
  • Jabbour, Alan
  • Clark, Elton

Created / Published

  • Tifton, Georgia, October 20, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Sound recording
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Tift County -- Tifton

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  In October 1977, following the fieldwork phase of the project, Alan Jabbour, director of the American Folklife Center, and Syd Blackmarr, the director of the Arts Experiment Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton GA (folklife project sponsor) conducted meetings (also referred to as workshops) in various counties in and adjacent to the project region, to inform and confer with interested citizens and, in Tift County GA, with schoolteachers. Some of the people visited by project fieldworkers also participated in the meetings.
  • -  Part 2 of a 5-part recording of the post-fieldwork community meeting for teachers, at the Rural Development Center, Tifton GA, right microphone favors speakers, left favors attendees: Alan Jabbour, director of the American Folklife Center, continues his extemporized narration for the photographs in the slide show, images include Janie Doss and her family (from Tift County GA), fiddler John R. Griffin (from Lenox GA), ends with questions from teachers, one asks how to contact Janie Doss; Jabbour introduces Elton Clark (from the Crosland Community, Norman Park, Colquitt County GA, person visited during fieldwork) to the group, Clark discussed the railroad, what happened to it, provides some personal history; Jabbour discusses traditional and formal teaching and learning and the importance of both; Clark talks about some of the photographs and answers Jabbour's questions, conversation with Clark continues in part 3.

Medium

  • audiotape reel, 7 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: AFS 20955
  • MBRS shelflist: RXA 1582
  • Field project identifier: GA7-CF-R23

Source Collection

  • South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl, Syd Blackmarr, Alan Jabbour, and Elton Clark. Post-fieldwork meeting for schoolteachers, Tifton, Tift County, Georgia, part 2. Tifton, Georgia, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs20955/.

APA citation style:

Fleischhauer, C., Blackmarr, S., Jabbour, A. & Clark, E. (1977) Post-fieldwork meeting for schoolteachers, Tifton, Tift County, Georgia, part 2. Tifton, Georgia. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs20955/.

MLA citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl, et al. Post-fieldwork meeting for schoolteachers, Tifton, Tift County, Georgia, part 2. Tifton, Georgia, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs20955/>.