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Total number of records: 60

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture60
folklore60
manners and customs39
community life38
rites and ceremonies26
folk music24
persons24
english language - dialects23
occupations23
play22

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bergal, Nancy Ann7
Wilson, David L5
Curtin, John4
Dunn, Ginette4
Chamberlain, John S3
Harris, Susan3
Pattison, Susan3
Russell, Ian3
Shaw, David H3
Wharton, Colin S3

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Sound Recording, Norway

Bystad, Berit

4 April 1973

Recordings made in Norway. Schoolchildren give examples of singing games and rhymes; [?collector announcement]; Norwegian women sing and talk about singing games and rhymes; [?collector announcement];...

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Sound Recording, [Norway]

Calvert, Valerie E

1961

[Announcement: results of a questionnaire issued by the Norsk Ethnological Institute]; male discusses Easter food and eggs in Norway - relates findings of survey - customary practices, egg consumption...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

15 February 1980

John Barstow sings 'Galway Shawl'and 'Dan O'Hara'. Recorded at the Grove Folk Club in Leeds. Collector also interviews a member of the audience at the bar of the same club. They discuss folk music/sin...

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Sound Recordings, Nigeria

Olayemi, Rufus V K

[1960s]

Adult male and child informants, recorded in Nigeria, singing/chanting Nigerian folk tales, with listeners'/audience responses and participation. Tales told in the Egba, Odeda, Egbado, Anago and Awori...

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Sound Recording, Nigeria

Olayemi, Val

[1968-1978]

Orin Ibeji (Songs in Praise of Twins). Woman and child sing two unidentified songs; woman and child[ren] (new informants) sings three unidentified songs. The original recordings were made in Ibadan in...

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Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Metcalfe, Robert

[1970s]

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 trad...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Howarth, Leslie

8 May 1973

Jack White and Mrs. Jack White in conversation at their home in the Stannington area of Sheffield. Talk of family members; informant's birthplace; Castleton Wakes; haytime; schooling at Lydgate in She...

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Sound Recording, Derbyshire

Russell, Ian

September-October 1970

Children of Unstone Community Junior Middle School, Unstone, give examples of clapping, singing, ring and skipping games. Recorded in school and in the playground.

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Sound Recordings, Greater Manchester

Waller, Vivien M

1961-1962

Schoolgirls recite/chant/sing skipping rhymes; also ball bouncing and counting-out rhymes, song (some parodies), explanations of (chasing) games (including 'Farmer Farmer') and the circle game 'Sally ...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

23 Apr 1970 - 30 Apr 1970

Frank Hinchliffe and Grace Walton recorded singing and talking at home in the Lodge Moor area of Sheffield. Discussion includes reference to a local legend, and the Sheffield Flood. Second recording c...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

[1970-1971]

Compilation of several field recordings. Male and female informants talk about practical jokes, local ministers and preachers, recite dialect poetry, coffins carried on sledges over snow, anecdotes co...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and London

Bystad, Berit

October 1973

[Collector announcement]; four schoolgirls (aged 10-11) recorded in Quarry Street playground, Leeds, describe and give examples of singing and clapping games. Recorded on the 23 October 1973. [Tr. 1] ...

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