Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A510r
Creator(s): Harrop, Peter K
Site Location(s): Subject - Bampton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7263, -1.54547 )
Date(s): 29 May 1978
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 42' 30".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414561
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Bampton Morris Dancersdancing outside in Bampton, with musical accompaniment on an accordion and fiddle. ?Recorded at a gala/fete event - crowd noise and public address announcement is audible. [Tr. 9]
Bobby Wells, recorded at the same event, talks about the Bampton Mummers; Ted Hunt (leader), the (paper) costumes worn; starting mumming in 1913, aged fourteen; collecting in pubs; training youngsters with Ted Hunt; performance locations, including gentlemen's houses, and in the study of Bampton Manor; largesse; structure of the play - players doubling up; performing on Christmas Eve; perambulatory; choosing parts; learning words; the entrance of the characters; performing up to thirty times a night; Bampton Morris Dancers; Jinky Wells (BW's father), fiddle player; breaking a fiddle at Clanfield [unidentified male asks questions re. the dancers], practicing; practicing the mummers' play two weeks before Christmas; discussion of the book 'History of the Parish and Town of Bampton' (1848), by John Allen Giles; morris dancers, Sam Bennett of Ilmington, William Kimber and Headington Morris; BW meeting Cecil Sharp, who recorded his father; Mary Neale inviting Bampton Morris Dancers to dance in
the Globe theatre (BW as Ragman); dancing in the Albert Hall, London; BW giving his father's fiddles to Francis Shergold and Arnold Woodley; dancing in hob nail boots. [Tr. 10]
Originally labelled tape C by the collector. Tape A is now tape LAVC/SRE/A497r, and tape B is tape LAVC/SRE/A498r.
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