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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Blues Collection
Alternative Title
Blues Collection
Subject
Music--United States
Blues (Music)--Florida
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the history of blues music in Central Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.<br /><br />During the middle to late 19th century, African-American ex-slaves and their descendants in the Deep South began playing a style of music that evolved from Black Spirituals and chants, work songs, field hollers, rural fife and drum music, revivalist hymns, and European folk and country dance music. It was characterized by its call-and-response narrative pattern, blue notes, and specific chord progressions, of which the 12-bar blues was the most common. By the turn of the century, blues music was being performed in regions such as Louisiana, the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont region, and Texas, typically by a solo musician on acoustic guitar, harmonica, or piano. Initially, a traditional blues verse was made up of a single line repeated four times, until the common AAB pattern was established in the early 20th century.<br /><br />In 1912, W. C. Handy, an African-American minstrel show band leader, published "Memphis Blues," which helped popularize the genre by transcribing and orchestrating it in a symphonic-like style. Handy is also credited with giving the blues its contemporary form, and was crowned the "Father of the Blues." The unexpected success of Mamie Smith’s "Crazy Blues," eight years later, caused record labels to begin producing “race records," featuring blues singers such as Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Most of the blues pioneers from the 1920s performed solo with an acoustic guitar. Among the most recognized are Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Leadbelly and Charlie Patton.<br /><br />As blues spread from the Deep South, it took on regional characteristics and styles. The Mississippi Delta blues featured slide guitar and a rootsy, sparse style. The Piedmont blues used an elaborate ragtime-based rhythm and fingerpicking technique. The Memphis blues, popular in vaudeville and medicine shows, was influenced by jug bands, incorporating unusual instruments such as washboard, kazoo, jug, mandolin, and fiddle. Urban blues forced performers to become more elaborate, as they had to adapt to a larger, more varied audience. Boogie-woogie consisted of piano-based blues derived from barrelhouse and ragtime in Chicago. Big band blues emerged out of Kansas City and incorporated elements of jazz and swing. West Coast blues was heavily influenced by a swing beat, and popularized by Texas musicians who moved to California. Electric blues came out of Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, and St. Louis in the 1950s, using electric guitars, double bass, drums. and harmonica performed through a microphone, amplifier and PA (public address) system. By the beginning of the 1960s, the most popular genres for young Americans were rock and roll and soul music, both rooted in African-American blues.<br /><br />Buried in the Deep South, Central Florida has had a long blues tradition, and a number of notable blues musicians had roots in Florida, including Tampa Red, Bo Diddley, Ray Charles, "Diamond Teeth Mary" McClain, Gabriel Brown, Noble "Thin Man" Watts, Willie Green, Blind Blake, Little Mike and the Tornadoes, Barrelhouse Chuck, and the Allman Brothers Band. Muddy Waters wrote a song for his 1977 album, <em>Hard Again</em>, entitled "Deep Down in Florida," in which he mentions Newberry and traveling to Gainesville to see an old friend. Waters met his third wife while performing at the popular blues dance hall, the Cotton Club, in Gainesville. The club opened in 1948 and had regular performances by such future famous blues musicians as James Brown, B.B. King and Ray Charles. The Wells’ Built Hotel and Casino, which is now an African-American history museum, is located in the historic African-American community of Parramore in Downtown Orlando. The hotel hosted many notable African-American musicians and celebrities during the Segregation era. Guitar Slim, Ray Charles, Ivory Joe Hunter, B. B. King and Bo Diddley were among the bluesmen traveling along the Chitlin' Circuit who were guests at the hotel and performers at the casino.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.wucftv.org/home/" target="_blank">WUCF-TV</a>
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/140" target="_blank">Central Florida Music History Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Bradenton, Florida
The Alley, Sanford, Florida
West Tampa, Tampa, Florida
WUCF-TV, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
DeVane, Dwight, Blaine Waide, Peggy A. Bulger, Doris J. Dyen, and David Evans. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/856993560" target="_blank"><em>Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980</em></a>. Atlanta, Ga: Dust-to-Digital, 2012.
Oakley, Giles. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3082016" target="_blank"><em>The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues</em></a>. New York: Taplinger Pub. Co, 1977.
Palmer, Robert. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6864668" target="_blank"><em>Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta</em></a>. New York: Viking Press, 1981.
Moving Image
A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion.
Original Format
1 audio/video recording
Duration
5 minutes and 25 seconds
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
WUCF Artisodes Short: Daniel Heitz
Alternative Title
Daniel Heitz Artisode
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Music--United States
Blues (Music)--Florida
Description
Daniel Heitz first took the stage at the Alley blues club in Sanford, Florida, when he was 11 years old. Over the next six years, he became one of the most impressive classical blues guitarists in Central Florida.<br /><br />WUCF-TV is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television station serving the Central Florida television market. The station, operated by the University of Central Florida, is the region's sole PBS member station, reaching an estimated population of 4.6 million people in its aerial viewing area. Arts and culture take center stage in WUCF-TV's weekly local series: "WUCF Artisodes." Each episode airs Thursdays at 8 p.m., featuring a local artist or initiative, as well as stories on the arts from across the country. Developed in partnership with 28 PBS stations nationwide, this series is part of WUCF-TV's mission to give everyone a front-row seat to the arts. This Artisodes Short originally aired as part of "WUCF Artisodes #145: The Call of Music" on October 2, 2014.
Type
Moving Image
Source
Original 5-minute and 25-second audio/video recording of Daniel Heitz, <a href="http://www.wucftv.org/home/" target="_blank">WUCF-TV</a>, Sanford, Florida, October 2, 2014: WUCF-TV, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/" target="_blank"> Adobe Flash Player</a>
<a href="http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp" target="_blank"> Java</a>
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/144" target="_blank">Blues Collection</a>, Central Florida Music History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="http://video.wucftv.org/video/2365335036/" target="_blank">WUCF Artisodes 145: The Call of Music</a>, WUCF-TV, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
Is Format Of
<a href="http://video.wucftv.org/video/2365333735/" target="_blank">WUCF Artisodes Short: Daniel Heitz</a>, WUCF-TV, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
Coverage
WUCF-TV, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
The Alley, Sanford, Florida
Publisher
<a href="http://www.wucftv.org/home/" target="_blank">WUCF-TV</a>
Contributor
Heitz, Daniel
Heitz, Sherri
Johnson, Chris
Williamson, Karl
Date Created
ca. 2015-01-29
Date Issued
2014-10-02
Date Copyrighted
2014-10-02
Format
application/website
application/pdf
Medium
5-minute and 25-second audio/video recording
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Geography Teacher
Humanities Teacher
Music Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by <a href="http://www.wucftv.org/home/" target="_blank">WUCF-TV</a>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://www.wucftv.org/home/" target="_blank">WUCF-TV</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.wucftv.org/home/" target="_blank">WUCF-TV</a>
External Reference
McPherson, Gary. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64554616" target="_blank"><em>The Child As Musician: A Handbook of Musical Development</em></a>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
<a href="http://www.wucftv.org/local-programs/artisodes/" target="_blank">”WUCF Artisodes</a>.” WUCFTV.org. http://www.wucftv.org/local-programs/artisodes/ (Accessed March 30, 2015).
Click to View (Movie, Podcast, or Website)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6yGU66JuBA" target="_blank">WUCF Artisodes Short: Daniel Heitz</a>
Albert King
Artisodes
B. B. King
blues
blues guitarists
blues guitars
bluesman
bluesmen
broadcast television distributor
Chris Johnson
classic blues
Dan Heitz
Daniel Heitz
Doc Williamson
Freddie King
Karl Williamson
musicians
PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
Riley King
Sanford
Sherri Heitz
The Alley
The Call of Music
The Daniel Heitz Band
UCF
University of Central Florida
WUCF Artisodes
WUCF-TV