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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A393r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A393r

Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette

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

Date(s): 16 November 1974

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 34' 00".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414444

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Percy Ling, recorded at home in Snape; talks about singing at the Golden Key pub in Snape, and meeting his future wife there; wife's family; segregation of men and women in the pub; attitude to women in pubs; PL's sons and daughters; poaching pheasants and rabbits; mother's cooking - bread, rabbit pie; Harvest Frolics at Iken - food and drink, singing (competitions) for farm workers; living on a farm on the estate of Lord Ullswater; Harvests Frolic at Blaxhall; [severe distortion at this point in the tape - interview inaudible]; farm work; PL's year of birth; farms lived on, father's job; PL's wife - children born at home; comments on himself as a singer, the songs he sings, other singers, father and mother; discusses the songs he knows. [Tape boxed undated. Probably a continuation of tape LAVC/SRE/A392r.]


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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Tape runs fast. Level and speed adjusted on AC copy.

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Agriculture

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England

English Language - Dialects

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Folk singers

Folk songs, English

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Food crops

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Harvest Frolics

Hunting

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Poaching

Public buildings

Singing

Suffolk

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