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Total number of records: 86

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture85
folk music84
english language - dialects69
community life54
occupations43
agriculture33
manners and customs26
persons25
food24
folk dancing22

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette86
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)30
Webb, Percy16
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)14
Poacher, Cyril (1910-1999)8
Ling, Ruby7
Savage, Lenny6
Belton, George (1898-1980)5
Holy Jim5
Jimmy5

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Sound Recording, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male Maori informant, recorded in Gisborne, New Zealand; talks about black magic, song composition, laments, song collection, memorisation, inheritance of song, Maori ancestors and Maori god, teaching...

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Sound Recording, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male Maori informant, recorded in Gisborne, New Zealand; talks about a female tribal composer, black magic, Maori laments, oral tradition, songs and singing competitions, Maori language, types of song...

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Sound Recordings, Manchester and Shropshire

Dunn, Ginette

April 1974

Fred Jordan, singing at the Bay Horse pub in Manchester on the 26 April 1974; sings 'Farmer's Boy', 'The Vacant Chair' and 'The Old Armchair'. [Tr. 1]. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

25 June 1974

Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about practising songs; the preservation of songs and the collector's tape recordings; old songs - music hall, folk; fishing - herring, gr...

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Popular Singing Traditions in and Around Snape and Blaxhall

Dunn, Ginette

1977

Ph.D. thesis in three parts, subdivided into nine chapters covering folksong scholarship and the development of a critical methodology, the histories of the villages of Blaxhall and Snape, men's singi...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

James Knights, recorded at home in Little Glemham on the 11 September 1974; talks about being recorded by Topic Records; family singing; learning songs from the 'News of the World'; father singing; si...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

October 1974

Lenny Savage, recorded at home in Snape on the 1 October 1974; talks about the musician Jimmy Meadows [LS's brother-in-law]; Mrs. Savage's childhood on a dairy farm; the singer Velvet Brightwell [fath...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

16 April 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, relates biographical details, including working on the land and at sea; his experience of World War One (wounded 1916); homecoming and work at the Snape Maltings; ...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

15 July 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, sings 'Keep the Home Fires Burning', followed by comments on the song and recollections of his time spent in France during World War One; sings 'Long Trail A-Windi...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

July 1975

Lil Durrant, recorded at home in Blaxhall [on 1 July 1975]; talks about her mother's songs and singing, and step dancing at weddings; father and siblings; school; work; step dancing with husband at Sh...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

November 1974

Singing at the Ship Inn, Blaxhall, on the 15 November 1974. Percy Ling tells jokes; Geoff Ling sings 'In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree'; Cyril Poacher attempts 'The Bonny Bunch of Roses' (twice); Bo...

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Sound Recording, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male Maori informant, recorded in Gisborne, New Zealand; tells a story of a fishing trip and a charm spoken to bring on a storm [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A661r]; talk of Maori spells known by the ...

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