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Children's Rhymes, Songs and Singing Games in Birdsedge, West Yorkshire

Archive File: LAVC/SRP/1/098

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Children's Rhymes, Songs and Singing Games in Birdsedge, West Yorkshire

Level: File

Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/098

Creator(s): Cooke, Jane A

Site Location(s): Subject - Birdsedge, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5659, -1.69727 )

Date(s): 1980

Size and medium: iii, 193 unbound typed leaves; 31 b/w photographs. Copy.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409994

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[M.A.] study of children's folklore in Birdsedge, based on fieldwork carried out in the playground of Birdsedge First School, between October 1979 and April 1980, and the recollections of parent and grandparent informants.


Six chapters discuss children's rhymes, songs and singing games as a social phenomenon, describe the village of Birdsedge (with accompanying photographs of the area and the school), assess and discuss the material collected (classified under the headings Rhyme and Song, Counting-out, Clapping, Skipping, Line and Ring Games, Team (i.e. competitive) Games, and accompanied by photographs, diagrams and tune transcriptions). The memories of adults in the village are recorded, and some conclusions offered.

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