Jazz Bands of the North East of England
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Jazz Bands of the North East of England
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/083
Creator(s): Bird, Elizabeth
Site Location(s): Subject - Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.25, -2 ); Subject - County Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.6766, -1.76654 ); Subject - North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1977, -1.39387 )
Date(s): 1974
Size and medium: 98 unbound typed leaves.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409979
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
M.A. dissertation on the history and contemporary manifestation of marching bands in Northumberland, Durham and North Yorkshire. These bands comprise children aged 8-18, predominantly female, playing music ranging from hymn tunes, through marches to popular hit songs, on modified kazoos, with the backing of military style drums and led by majorettes. The first bands in the early 1920s were started by adults, and only slightly later was the idea extended to children.
The study looks at the history of the bands in the early 1920s and '30s, to establish when and where they were started, in what circumstances and what social function they fulfilled. It also describes the present bands and similarly analyses their role in the community. The work is based on the oral testimony of informants, and additional information gathered from newspaper articles and letters.
Part One of the study concentrates on the 1920s and '30s, and describes both the adult and later juvenile bands. Part Two focusses on the 1960s and '70s, with chapters on general organisation, characteristics of band personnel, the appeal and functions of the bands for children, the role of the adult in the band, sex roles, the military ideal and the North East.
The appendices contain a sample questionnaire given to band members aged eleven and upwards, an account of The Hazlerigg Affair (relating to an outbreak of hysterical symptoms among jazz band members at a gala in 1972) and a list of known bands for 1973-1974. Two newspaper articles are also included.
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