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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A512r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A512r

Creator(s): Pierce, Andrew; Harrop, Peter K

Site Location(s): Subject - Bampton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7263, -1.54547 )

Date(s): 24 December 1978

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 79' 58".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414563

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Bampton Mummers, recorded in Bampton, performing their Christmas play in the Elephant and Castle pub [Tr. 1], the Eagle pub [collector announces the name of the pub and the time of recording, and comments on the response of the people in the pub to the mummers] [Tr. 2], the George and Dragon pub [collector announcements, as for the Eagle] [Tr. 3], the Talbot pub [collector announcements, as for the Eagle, with comments also on the performance, the audience and the location] [Tr. 4], the Horseshoe pub [collector announcements re. time and location, comments on the performance and reception, and the Romany pub where no performance was possible] [Tr. 5], the Jubilee pub [collector announcement re. time and location; comments on reception given to the mummers] [Tr. 6], the Morris Clown pub [collector comments on the mummers] [Tr. 7]


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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec.

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Calendar rites

Combat drama

Culture

England

English Language - Dialects

Folk Drama

Folk Music

Folk drama, English

Holidays

Manners and Customs

Mumming plays

Oxfordshire

Rites and Ceremonies

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