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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A332r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A332r

Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette

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

Date(s): 25 June 1974

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 63' 05".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414383

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about practising songs; the preservation of songs and the collector's tape recordings; old songs - music hall, folk; fishing - herring, grounds, boats (sail, steam) and jobs on board; sings 'Cod Banging' and discusses learning it; sings 'John Barleycorn' and comments on another person's version of it; learning songs in a pub in Grimsby during singing sessions; singing at home with his mother, with accordion accompaniment; living in Wrentham; family; schooldays.


Sings 'One of the Best'; early life; school; grandparents; sings 'Bonny Mary of Argyle', 'Why Have I No Daddy, Mummy?'; identifying old songs; rhythm in song; sings 'Australia' and 'A Broadside'(learned in Grimsby). Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A333r. Starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A331r.


4 of 79.

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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec. Recording level adjusted. Distortion on some of the songs.

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Atlantic herring fisheries

Community Life

Culture

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England

English Language - Dialects

Fishing

Folk Music

Folk singers

Folk songs, English

Occupations

Singing

Suffolk

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