Sound Recordings, North East England
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, North East England
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A256r
Creator(s): Bird, Elizabeth
Site Location(s): Subject - North East England, England, United Kingdom( 55.297, -1.7289 )
Date(s): [1973]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 95' 26".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414305
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Two teenage girls (Drum Major and Band Major, possibly members of the Dudley and Fordley Legionnaires) and their ?father explain their roles in a jazz band; promotion, subscriptions; attraction of membership; ?father (?band trainer) talks about band and majorette's visit to Belgium; costs of uniform; age of band members; jazz band Associations; playing at carnivals; band supporters; medals; recruitment; repertoire; practices; origin of the word jazz; reference to carnival bands in Nottingham; juvenile bands in Wales; social aspects of membership. [Tr. 1]
Frank Horner, Mrs. Frank Horner and Dick Denham talk about North East jazz bands of the 1930s: fundraising dances (Hops), raffles and pie and pea suppers; drawing on savings and pocket money; uniforms [ref. to a ?band, the Sunderland Jazz Lights]; origin of the word jazz; competitions; parades; band membership; band described - leader with mace, no majorettes; street dances for entertainment; football, handball, quoits; band membership and travel opportunities; practices; age range (16 upwards); juvenile bands; kilty bands (wore kilts); uniforms; repertoire; competitions; supporters; prizes; kazoos described; practices; social dances; decline of bands in the late 1930s; revival with juvenile bands after World War Two; learning tunes from gramophone records. [Tr. 2]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Recording affected by much background hiss, due to low recording level. Sections of speech barely audible.
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