Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A068
Creator(s): Bergal, Nancy Ann
Site Location(s): Subject - Armley, leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.797, -1.57465 )
Date(s): 13 December 1979
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 90' 15".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414118
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
John Curtin, recorded in his home in the Armley area of Leeds. Biographical details; interest in Scottish Country Dance bands; accordion, guitar playing as a teenager; distinction made between traditional and revival singers - regards himself as a newcomer; reference to A. L. Lloyd and Alan Lomax; early influences (Corries); distinction made between eastern and western musical traditions; attending a folk club in Coventry, aged 15; electric folk; instruments played; learning technique and theory; education; writing science fiction - freelance; learning/interpreting songs; nationalism and group identity, traditions, roots; work in schools; important role of folk music and folklore; West Yorkshire folk clubs; folk scene in Leeds; folk music and civil protest (1960s/early 1970s); closing of folk clubs, rise in popularity of allied activities (e.g. mummers' groups); recruitment; folk music in schools; Tykes Association of Folk Clubs in West Yorkshire- teachers' courses; contemporary folk music
and problems of definition; Music Hall songs - popular music; sources of songs; other instrumentalists; learning songs, performances in public venues (Working Men's Clubs); local identity (dialect); chemical industry - songs about - sings 'Process Man'; accompaniment, technique, singing style; audience (participation); floor singers; repertoire - themes (women, love songs); sings song in French; Child Ballads.
5 of 13.
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Physical and technical conditions
Tape speed increases during second half of this recording.
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