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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A329r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A329r

Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette

Site Location(s): Subject - Snape, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.171, 1.50047 )

Date(s): 16 April 1974

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 59' 28".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414380

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, relates biographical details, including working on the land and at sea; his experience of World War One (wounded 1916); homecoming and work at the Snape Maltings; family; learning songs whilst at sea (shanties); recording songs commercially; repertoire; sings 'White Wings'; transmission and learning of songs - memorisation; sings 'Bold General Wolfe' - discusses the song's date and General Wolfe, learned from John Harland; pub singing; kitchen dances; folk clubs; step dancing in pubs; family (hymn) singing; schooling, including Sunday School; importance of the story in song.


Sings and discusses 'Banks of the Sweet Primroses'; sings and discusses 'The Song of the Thrush'; sings 'Australia' and discusses its transmission; sings 'Tom Bowling', and talks of learning it and singing it at sea; sings 'Miner's Dream of Home' (learned from his uncle); sings 'Bold Princess Royal' and discusses pirates and smuggling. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A330r.


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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.

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