Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A513r
Creator(s): Harrop, Peter K
Site Location(s): Subject - Bampton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7263, -1.54547 )
Date(s): 26 May 1979
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 13' 25".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414564
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Arnold Woodley, recorded at home in Bampton, talks about Bampton Mummers and his involvement with them since the early 1970s; revival of the team by Ted Hunt; AW's father in the team, pre-World War One; AW asked to gather players, and then to organise the performances; performing on Christmas Eve or Boxing Day, knocking on doors unannounced; financial need of the mummers in the past - compares the morris dancers in Headington; discusses photographs of mummers; talks about learning lines, and the recitation of lines by old members in pubs, picked up by AW as a youngster; the recording of words, and changes to the play text.
18 of 39.
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Low recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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