Sound Recordings, North East England
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, North East England
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A254r
Creator(s): Bird, Elizabeth
Site Location(s): Subject - Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom( 54.9733, -1.61396 ); Subject - Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.383, -1.4659 ); Subject - Bedlington, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.1306, -1.59319 )
Date(s): November 1973
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 87' 16".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414303
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Evelyn Johnston talks about the Black Watch Jazz Band of Bedlington (Northumberland) during the period 1927-1928; boy and girl members; uniform; instruments; batons; mascot; practices; subscriptions and fundraising; around thirty members, aged 8-18; weekly competitions in pit villages; repertoire; Dipton Chinks (male adult band, Dipton, County Durham); Black Watch stopped 1936-1937, revived 1960s; function of the jazz bands; kazoos described (known as submarines); money/cup prizes; medals given to every band member. Recorded 8 November 1973.[Tr. 6]
[Collector announcement]; Terence Clark talks about his involvement with the Coxlodge Coronets Jazz Band ( Coxlodge, Newcastle upon Tyne); discusses the present-day band, principal members and training; appeal of the bands for children; why only in the North East of England; band's function - discipline, focus, pride in membership; catchment area for the band - Coxlodge, Gosforth areas; social/community function; attraction of military style uniforms for boys; bands and discipline/improving function; subscriptions; repertoire; instruments. Recorded 16 November 1973. [Tr. 7]. This is the second half of the interview. The first half is on Track Two of the original tape (copied onto AC111, Tr. 2).
[Collector announcement]; practise session for the Shieldfield Falcons, recorded indoors on 8 November 1973. Medley of tunes, played on drums and kazoos. [Tr. 1]
[Collector announcement]; Terence Clark talks about his involvement with the Coxlodge Coronets Jazz Band; bugler in the Durham Light Infantry band, asked to train the Coronets in 1971; participated in first carnival in April 1972 (also majorette competitions); describes carnivals attended, trophies awarded, parade, order of events; explains roles of Band Major and Drum Major, band sections and the order in which they parade; cites origin of jazz bands in the formation of bands of unemployed miners in the Durham area in 1921, playing harmonicas and jews harp - died out in the 1930s, due to work and joining Army; revival of (juvenile) jazz bands in the 1960s; growth of Associations; inter-Association competition once a year; reference to knock out competition/majorette competitions (independent of Associations); age range of band members (11-18); practices; selection and graduation from banner holder to kazoo player to the drum corps. Recorded 16 November 1973. [Tr. 2] This is the first part
of an interview which concludes on Track One of the original tape (copied onto AC110, Tr. 7).
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Low recording level. Large gaps in between recordings have been edited out on the AC copies.
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