Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A516r
Creator(s): Harrop, Peter K
Site Location(s): Subject - Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1358, -1.52826 )
Date(s): 26 December 1977
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 88' 56".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414567
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Ripon Sword Dancers, recorded in the streets of Ripon, perform the Ripon Sword-Dance Play. Includes singing at the start and finish; and comments by the performers whilst walking between locations - history of the tradition, props used, the words, number of performances, advertising for swords, the need for five or six performers, the collection; followed by a recording of harmonica playing [?in a pub], and conversation with one of the sword-dance play performers (performing for the first time).
Further performances in local pubs, outside and in the Legion Club. One performance recorded in someone's ?house. Traffic noise obscures the speakers' voices on a number of occasions. Continues on tape LAVC/SRE/A517r.
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9.5cm/sec. Playback speed increases towards the end of Track Two. Adjusted on AC copy.
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