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Total number of records: 32

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archive administration32
culture32
folk music25
community life23
english language - dialects20
occupations14
agriculture13
play13
manners and customs12
associations, institutions, etc8

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Sullivan, Keith Frederick7
Dunn, Ginette2
English Folk Dance and Song Society2
Gallon, Jacky2
Gallon, Mrs2
Green, Anthony E (1943-)2
Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Bishop, Julia C1
Broadhead, Albert1

Archive File

Children's Songs and Rhymes

1954-1979

This file comprises a copy of James Ritchie's 'The Singing Street: A Merry-Ma-Tanzie of Skipping, Hopping, Stotting, Hiding, Birling, Playing, and Dancing Rhymes', revised edition (Edinburgh: Albyn Pr...

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Lists from the Archive of Folk Song

Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)

1971-1974

This file contains lists produced by and for, and information about, the Archive of Folk Song at the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The file includes two versions of the paper, 'The Archiv...

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The Singing Style of Bob Hart: A Study of Performance in Traditional Song

Bishop, Julia C

1983

M.A. dissertation which considers the singing style of one Suffolkman, Bob Hart, based on a predominantly musicological analysis of three songs from his repertoire. A number of performances of these s...

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Recordings of Yorkshire Songs, Music and Customs at Cecil Sharp House, London

English Folk Dance and Song Society

[1964]

This file contains a typed list of recordings held by the English Folk Dance and Song Society at their headquarters, Cecil Sharp House, London. The recordings cover the period ca. 1940-1964, and inclu...

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A Phonological Investigation of Dialect Content Among Traditional Singers of English Folk Song

Tawney, Cyril

1977

M.A. (Dialectology) study which takes as its starting point comments on phonology in folk singing made by Percy Grainger (writing about Lincolnshire singers in the 'Journal of the Folk Song Society' i...

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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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Alfred Williams Collection: Index

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of a typed index to the Alfred Williams Collection of Folk Songs at Swindon Reference Library, collected in the early 20th century. The index was compiled by Frank Pursl...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

8 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Will White, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about singing; living at the Black Bull pub; pub singing; biographical details; running the pub with his wife; also mixed farm...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

1971-1973

Ken White in conversation in his home in Sheffield , 24 October 1971. Talk of family and childhood, and four songs. [Tr. 1] Albert Broadhead and Bernard Broadhead recorded in one of their homes, in ...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Commonon the 31 October 1974 ; talks about making clay ovens [learned during World War One]; farm work; church choir; family; engagement; being gassed during W...

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Folk Music in the British Isles

English Folk Dance and Song Society

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains photocopies of papers produced by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) on folk music collections and recordings in Great Britain. The file includes a photocopy of the lis...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

8 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Tommy Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about pub singing - starting, joining in, songs sung, time, landlord, changes and non-locals; learning songs; cycling to pub...

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