Sound Recordings, [Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Dorset, West Sussex, Gloucestershire and North Lincolnshire]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, [Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Dorset, West Sussex, Gloucestershire and North Lincolnshire]
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A527r
Creator(s): Harrop, Peter K
Site Location(s): Subject - Dorset, England, United Kingdom( 50.75, -2.33333 ); Subject - Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7796, -2.18311 ); Subject - Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.1844, -0.27857 ); Subject - Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.8577, -2.03686 ); Subject - West Sussex, England, United Kingdom( 51, -0.41667 ); Subject - Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom( 52.1667, -2.16667 )
Date(s): [1970s]
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 93' 24".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414578
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Compilation of recordings (copy extracts) of traditional drama performances, including also some conversation regarding mummers and mumming. The provenance of these recordings is uncertain, as are the locations, names of the mummers' groups and the dates of performance. It is possible that some of the copies are taken from BBC and Topic recordings. The date(s) when the copies were taken is not known.
Mr. Beezer talks about performing with a mummers' group, visiting and performing in houses, and the collection at the end of the play. No date. [Tr. 10]
Mummers' plays, recorded in ? Great Malvern ( 19 December 1946) [Tr. 11], Uttoxeter ( 19 December 1946) [Tr. 12], ? Dorchester (undated) [Tr. 13], ? Evershot ( 16 December 1936) [Tr. 14], ? Symondsbury ( 23 February 1951) [Tr. 15], Aldingbourne (recorded by the BBC on the 10 December 1937, and performed by the pupils of Aldingbourne School) [Tr. 16]; Mr. Beezer and another unidentified male talk about mumming, mummers' costumes, house visiting, the use of paper in the costumes and learning the words of the play. [Tr. 17]; performance of mummers' play, recorded in ? Marshfield ( 30 December 1943). [Tr. 18]
Male recites a [?Devon] mummers' play, which includes the characters West Indian King and Lord Nelson (includes also three sung sections); describes the collection at the end of the play, seeing mummers as a schoolboy (late nineteenth century), performing in houses, father's memories of Devon mummers, the passing on of the tradition; talks about a photograph of mummers, taken in Sidmouth in 1905, the waning of the tradition periodically, a previous mumming troop, the preparations for performance at Christmas, house visiting and the use of props. Date of recording not known. [Tr. 1]
Marshfield Mummers perform their play [?in Marshfield, undated, but usually on Boxing Day] [Tr. 2]
Fragment of the song 'John Barleycorn', sung in an unidentified pub [possibly part of the singing which precedes the Haxey Hood in Haxey]. [Tr. 3]
Fragments of the Haxey Hood game, including the Fool's speech. [Tr. 4]
Fragments of pub singing [?before/after the Haxey Hood] - 'Farmer's Boy'. [Tr. 5]
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Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec.
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