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The Passing of a Community and its Songs: A Study Based on the Unpublished Manuscript Collection of Songs from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire, made by Janet Heatley Blunt
Pickering, Michael J
1978
Ph.D. thesis concerned primarily with the social background to traditional English song, as found in the manuscript collection made by Miss Janet Blunt in Adderbury, North Oxfordshire. The Introductio...
Village Song and Culture: A Study Based on the Blunt Collection of Song from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire
Pickering, Michael J
1981
This file contains a complete photocopy of a typed draft, with ms. corrections, of Pickering's study of the folk songs of Adderbury, as published by Croom Helm , 1982, [viii], 281 leaves. The book was...
Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Pickering, Michael J
September 1973
Harry Austin, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about local people listed on an unidentified manuscript; comments on a number of local families, including the Welsh family, the Walton family, Marth...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Pickering, Michael J
September/October 1973
Wilf Walton [daughter also present], recorded in Adderbury; recites texts of a number of unidentified poems/monologues and songs; daughter talks about her father acting in local productions of 'The Mi...
Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Pickering, Michael J
September/October 1973
Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about the Blunt family; book rescued from house following Janet Blunt's death; JB's family members and location of living members; Janet Blunt and ev...
Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Pickering, Michael J
September/October 1973
Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about Janet Blunt's folk song collecting, and people's perceptions of her in Adderbury; musical afternoons/evenings at her house; singing in the loca...
Sound Recording, Durham
Pickering, Michael J
5 April 1974
Professor Thomas Thacker, recorded at home in Durham; gives his recollections of Janet Bluntin the late 1920s/early 1930s; attitudes of villagers to her and vice versa; her family, folk song collectin...
Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Pickering, Michael J
25 March 1978
Fanny Hitchman, recorded in Adderbury; sings two songs. The first is a May song, the second is titled 'Dame Crump'. [Tr. 1] Male informant, recorded at home, remembers inhabitants of Adderbury; waln...