Sound Recordings, North East England
Description
Two teenage girls (Drum Major and Band Major, possibly members of the Dudley and Fordley Legionnaires) and their ?father explain their roles in a jazz band; promotion, subscriptions; attraction of membership; ?father (?band trainer) talks about band and majorette's visit to Belgium; costs of uniform; age of band members; jazz band Associations; playing at carnivals; band supporters; medals; recruitment; repertoire; practices; origin of the word jazz; reference to carnival bands in Nottingham; juvenile bands in Wales; social aspects of membership. [Tr. 1] Frank Horner, Mrs. Frank Horner and Dick Denham talk about North East jazz bands of the 1930s: fundraising dances (Hops), raffles and pie and pea suppers; drawing on savings and pocket money; uniforms [ref. to a ?band, the Sunderland Jazz Lights]; origin of the word jazz; competitions; parades; band membership; band described - leader with mace, no majorettes; street dances for entertainment; football, handball, quoits; band membership and travel opportunities; practices; age range (16 upwards); juvenile bands; kilty bands (wore kilts); uniforms; repertoire; competitions; supporters; prizes; kazoos described; practices; social dances; decline of bands in the late 1930s; revival with juvenile bands after World War Two; learning tunes from gramophone records. [Tr. 2] 3 of 4.
Metadata
| Identifier | p4vh621h |
| IRN | 414305 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A256r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/p4vh621h |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Bird, Elizabeth |
| Date | [1973] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 95' 26". |