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Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A616r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A616r

Creator(s): Metcalfe, Robert

Site Location(s): Subject - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 )

Date(s): [1970s]

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 13' 03".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414667

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Stewart Sanderson [?recorded in Leeds] talks about motoring folklore; his interest; Rolls Royce and Volkswagen examples; friend-of-a-friend tales and truth; collecting examples; the study of oral tradition at the University of Leeds; contemporary legends collected by students; versions (gives the Disappearing Grandmother example); car-related examples; people's belief in the stories; importance of circumstantial details; unwillingness to accept that such stories are folk tales.

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19cm/sec.

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