A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman

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Abrahams, Roger, 4 Acosta, Tom, 90–94, 148 African-American folklore, 65, 80, 85, 179 “Alabama Jubilee,” 137, 145 Alligators, 20, 77, 78 “Amazing Grace,” 49, 143 American Folklife Center, 2 American Indians, 15–16, 73, 80, 85, 168 Ammidown, Margot, 165 Anderson, John, 147 Anderson, Miss, 130, 169 “Annie Seaman Waltz,” 7, 13, 119–20, 120, 141, 199, 201 “Arkansas Traveler,” 138 Arlington neighborhood, 103 “At a Georgia Camp Meeting,” 146 “Aunt Dina’s Quilting Party,” 143, 145 authenticity, 137, 138 Avondale neighborhood, 99, 198 Baldwin, Florida, 18 Ballymenone, Ireland, 29 Barber, Joe, 108, 109, 112 Barber, Ross, 109 Barbour, George M., 175, 176, 180 bass, 66–67 Basso, Keith, 73 Bauman, Richard, 4, 140 Bayard, Samuel Preston, 134, 135, 144 Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 19 bees, 12, 78–79 Bennett, Earnest, 194 Bennington, Floyd, 194 “Big John in the Barroom,” 137 “Bile Them Cabbage Down,” 138, 139 “Bill Cheatem,” 138 “Billy in the Lowground,” 136 Bivins, T. K., 197, 198 bluegrass music, 2–3, 41, 50–53, 110, 146 blues music, 52, 157, 178, 179 Blume, George, 194 Bridal Street, Jacksonville, 96, 200 Briggs, Charles, 140 Bronner, Simon, 193 Brookville, Florida, 175 “Bully of the Town,” 137 249 Index
Burch, Wandley, 194 Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs, x, 1, 2, 10, 33, 151, 199 Burke, Kenneth, 4 busking, 43, 89 Campbell, George, 190 “Carroll County Blues,” 157, 179 cattle, x, 60, 61, 157, 158 Chesapeake Bay, 55 Chester, Pennsylvania, 55 “Chicken Reel,” 137 Chomsky, Noam, 4 Christianity, 49, 56, 192, 193, 195 “Cindy,” 136, 139, 140, 153, 154 Civil War, 87, 137, 167, 169, 177 Clements, Vassar, 147 Clewiston, Florida, 170 community aesthetic, 133, 136 community ethos, 28–32, 188, 191 core repertory, 132–49 corn, 11, 71, 158 “Cotton Bagging.” See “Shear ’Em.” “Cotton-Eyed Joe,” 136 “crackers,” 7, 166, 167, 174–77 Cruse, Wade, 89 Custer, George, 4, 34–54, 133, 148, 200 Dale, Greg, 150 “Dance All Night with a Bottle in My Hand,” 136, 202 dance halls, 94–95 dance parties, 13, 17, 19–21, 24, 25, 38, 45, 47, 89, 95, 100, 109, 110, 145, 146, 148, 156, 176, 179–80, 183 Daniels, Charlie, 147 Danielson, Linda, 136 Dann, Carl, 176 “Darling Nelly Gray,” 145 Darsey, Barbara, 179 debt peonage. See peonage Deetz, James, 6 devil, 27, 28, Disney World, 166, 172 Disston, Hamilton, 55 “Dixie,” 136 dogs, 67–70, 170 dogtrot house, 61 Dolby, Sandra, 138 “Don’t Be Angry with Me Darling,” 141, 142 “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down,” 44, Dorson, Richard, 62, 64, 79 “Down Yonder,” 36, 136 Dundes, Alan, 134 Duval County Folk Arts (Folklife) in Education Program, 1–3, 8, 59, 162 Eatonville, Florida, 169 epistemology, 59, 73, 83–85, 190 ethnopoetics, 58, 59, 192 Evans, Thomas, 172 Everglades, 64 “Faded Love,” 44, 45, 143 Farley, Frank, 182–85 Faulkner, William, 61 Feintuch, Burt, 30¤ddle beaters, 27, 47, 48, 112, 113, 130, 153, 154, 177¤ddlers’ contests, 90–92, 144¤ddle tune lyrics, 117, 120, 139–40, 201–8¤ddling techniques: aesthetics, 27, 39, 106, 112, 120–22; bounce, 113–14; longbow /short-bow, 114–15; melody lines, 116–18; noting, 107, 108; ornamentation , 118, 119, 121; playing by ear, 108–11, 115, 133, 134; shuf®es, 114; tuning and keys 115, 116; variations, 46, 117, 118¤eldwork methodology, ix, x, 3–5, 18¤ghts, 31, 94, 95, 145 Fisher, Glen, 189¤sh fry, 31¤shing, 31, 65–67, 70, 74 “Flop-Eared Mule,” 13, 106, 135, 153, 184 Florida Fiddlers Association, 60 Florida Folk Festival, ix, 34, 59, 163, 164, 182–86, 200 Florida Folk Heritage Awards, 164, 200 Florida Folklife Council, 163, 200 Florida Folklife Program. See Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs Florida frolics. See dance parties Florida Keys, 66 Florida’s Boom, 86
index 250 Florida’s Gulf Coast, 66 folk belief, 27–28, 72 Folklife in Education programming, 7, 150, 151, 189 Folklife festivals, 9–17, 41, 105, 167, 182–87 folk music revivals, 51, 191, 192 “Footprints in the Snow,” 52, 53 Ford, Henry, 178 Forrester, Howdy, 35, 36, 44, 52, 179 Forrester, Joe, 44 Fountain of Youth, 166 “Fourteen Days in Georgia,” 15, 137 Francis Grill, 94 Freeman, “Old Man,” 126 frogs, 73–74, 76–77, 160, 161 Gainesville, Florida 52 Gemeinschaft, 95 Gesellschaft, 95 Georgia Slim and the Texas Roundup, 44 Gimble, Johnny, 45 “Girl I Left Behind,” 138 Glassie, Henry, 4 “Golden Slippers,” 137 Goodman, Harold, 43 gopher tortoise, 68 Gorrie, John, 63 Grand Old Opry, 35, 42...