Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A276r
Creator(s): Ashton, John
Site Location(s): Subject - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 )
Date(s): [1974/1975]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 55' 47".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414326
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Harry Slack, recorded in his home in Leeds. Brief reference to singing style (adornment); sings and then discusses 'Uncle Dan McCann', learned from parents; sings 'Said Meself to Herself' and explains the story, learned from parents as a child; talks about singing/dancing at home in Ireland - community event in parents' kitchen (dance house), stopped with the coming of Dance Halls; sings 'The Tune that Came Out' (includes some lilting); discusses lilting and gives example (jig and a reel; hornpipe); sings [ 'The Bard of Armagh']; discuss the shillelagh (wooden club, used as a weapon); discuss song repertoire, mainly Come all ye songs; sings song from Kerry [?Golden Wedding]; sings fragment [?of Banks of the Lee] (mother's favourite); reference to father singing 'All Around my Hat'; sings 'Old Skibereen' (song of the Great Famine); talks about coming to England in 1930; memories of Ireland - food, entertainment (Dance Halls), singing/dancing competitions, jazzing; Irish music and current
popularity; unifying aspect of music; sings rebel song [ 'The Colours White, Yellow and Green']; the Black and Tans - special police force post-World War One (wore black and khaki); production of drink poteen and songs about; St. Patrick's Day dance, wearing shamrock; sings St. Patrick's Day rhyme; Christmas (night time dance) - no carol singing; St. Bridget's Night - children's house visiting custom, including dressing up, dance and lilting.
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