Sound Recordings, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire, Cheshire and Oxfordshire

Description

Compilation of fieldwork recordings (copy extracts) of traditional drama performances, made by a number of different collectors. Includes the Uttoxeter Feather Guizers, the Midgley Pace Eggers, Antrobus Soul-Cakers and the Bampton Mummers. The copies were made from tape and disc originals. Date(s) of copying not known. Uttoxeter Feather Guizers perform their hero/combat play in Uttoxeter. Original recording made by the BBC [?on 19 December 1946 .] [Tr. 2]; [? Midgley Pace Eggers, recorded in Midgley by the BBC]. [Tr. 3]; [? Midgley Pace Eggers, recorded in Midgley by Doc Rowe]. [Tr. 4]; [? Midgley Pace Eggers/? Brighouse Children's Theatre, recorded in Midgley/ Brighouse]. [Tr. 5]; [? Midgley Pace Eggers, recorded in ?] [Tr. 6]; [? Midgley Pace Eggers, recorded in ?] [Tr. 7] [? Midgley Pace Eggers, recorded in ?] [Tr. 7]; [? Midgley Pace Eggers, recorded in ?] [Tr. 1]; Antrobus Soul-Cakers[?recorded in Antrobus] [Tr. 2]; male sings [?part of the Antrobus Soul-Cakers' song] [Tr. 3]; male sings Antrobus Soul-Cakers' song, and recites the play [all parts]. [Tr. 4]; male sings [? 'Murphy's Ass']. [Tr. 5]; a member of the Bampton Mummers sings and plays the fiddle, recorded in Bampton in the 1930s by James Madison Carpenter. [Copy of disc copy of original wax cylinder recording.] [Tr. 6]; Bampton Mummers, recorded in Bampton in the 1930s by James Madison Carpenter. [Copy of disc copy of original wax cylinder recording.] [Tr. 7] 29 of 39.

Metadata

Identifier sdv9dmrl
IRN 414575
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A524r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/sdv9dmrl
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Harrop, Peter K
Date [1970-1979]
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 124' 39".

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