Audiotape Sound Recordings
Description
The majority of the tapes in this series contain fieldwork recordings made by students pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate courses in folk life or dialect at the University of Leeds, through the Departments of English Language and Medieval English Literature, English Literature and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies. These items were submitted with the students' dissertations and theses. The sound recordings embrace a wide variety of subject areas, and present personal recollections, descriptions, observations and thoughts relating to community/social life, social, economic, political and industrial relations and history. More particularly, subjects covered include calendar custom events observed locally (for example, the Haxey Hood game in Lincolnshire, Soulcaking at Antrobus in Cheshire, Pace Egging in West Yorkshire), and nationally (traditions associated with Christmas, Easter and Bonfire Night); traditional customs and beliefs associated with health and well being, the weather, luck and rites of passage; foodways (customs and beliefs associated with the production and preparation of food); traditional narratives (folk tales, anecdotes, jokes); children's traditions (games, rhymes, riddles, jokes and songs); traditional music (solo/group singing and instrumental music making), dance (sword, clog, morris), drama (the mummers' play); traditional crafts, work techniques and material culture (for example, barrel making, basket making, drystone walling, the fishing, mining and textile industries). Sound recordings made as part of the Survey of English Dialects are also included in this series. These were made by fieldworkers revisiting original (and some new) localities, either because a tape recording had not previously been possible, or to check and clarify earlier responses to individual questions from the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. In such cases the recordings contain both free conversation and more formal question and answer exchanges. Allied to these recordings are a number of independent dialect survey recordings made in England by individual researchers (most notably from Scandinavia). A small number of items in this series are copies of radio broadcasts, and commercially published educational (language development and use) tapes.
Metadata
| Identifier | vg56917s |
| IRN | 414050 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A |
| Level | Series |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/vg56917s |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Sound Recordings |
| Date | 1954-1981 |
| Size and Medium | 768 open reel spools, 120 audiocassettes, 17 linear metres [reels and cassettes together]. |
| System of Arrangement | The tape items were originally arranged in three sections, according to their physical size and format. All 3" (7.6cm) open reel spools and audiocassettes were assigned a shelf list number, prefixed by the letter A, 5" (12.7cm) spools by the letter B and 7" (17.8cm) spools by the letter C. Each section had its own shelflist numbers, starting with number 1. This arrangement has, by and large, been retained. Alterations have been made only where provenance has not been identified, or where tapes with the same provenance but different letter prefixes have been identified and brought together. The arrangement now reflects recordings made by University of Leeds' students (known provenance), non-student recordings (known provenance) and non-student recordings (unknown provenance). |