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Total number of records: 84

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture84
folk music84
english language - dialects69
community life53
occupations42
agriculture32
manners and customs25
persons24
food23
folk dancing22

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette84
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)30
Webb, Percy16
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)14
Poacher, Cyril (1910-1999)8
Ling, Ruby7
Belton, George (1898-1980)5
Holy Jim5
Jimmy5
Knights, James (1880-1880)5

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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

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

April 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape on 16 April 1974[conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A329r]; sings 'The Ship that Never Returned'; working at sea (cooking, rope work) on drifters a...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

25 June 1974

Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about his family; experience of World War One, war injuries, hospitalisation in Cambridge and Sidcup, writing poetry, fellow patients, inc...

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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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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

25 June 1974

Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], sings 'Young Sailor Cut Down in his Prime'; comments on the chorus and audience participation, thoughts he has when singing; comments on a comme...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

26 June 1974

Bob Hart, Lenny Savage and Jack Foreman, recorded at the Golden Key pub in Snape; general conversation [much background noise, distortion of voices, multiple conversations, makes this section hard to ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

July 1974

Session recorded at the Everyman Folk Club, Leiston Sports Centre, on 12 July 1974. Bob Hart sings 'Comrades'[incomplete] and 'What a Funny Little Place to Have One'; Percy Webb sings 'Flash Company' ...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

13 July 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, sings 'All Getting Older Together', followed by comments; sings 'Just an Old Fashioned Lady'; listening to records, love of singing, listening to singers, dislike ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

13 July 1974

Conclusion of singing session in the Crown pub, Snape [starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A336r]; Bob Hart sings 'Old Farmer's Servant' [small break in recording due to missing oxide layer on tape]; sings 'My Gr...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

15 July 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, sings 'God Send You Back to Me'; comments on singing at the Butley Oyster pub and Leiston Folk Club; sings 'Granny's Song at Twilight'; singing on stage with Frenc...

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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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