Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Description

Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of geographical cells, and each informants' cell number is announced ahead of their recorded answers. The collector's field recording method involved starting and stopping the tape before and after the answer to each of the questionnaire's seventy-one questions. Free conversation with each informant is recorded after the completion of the questionnaire. The dates when the recordings were made is not known. [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about appendicitis; being run over by a van; her sons. [Tr. 9] [Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about an incident on Bonfire Night; nearly crashing on a bus in Scotland; amusing notes written by children; children and shoplifting. [Tr. 10] [Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about an incident with a leopard at a house in Uganda. [Tr. 11] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about her family; camping at Knaresborough. [Tr. 12] [Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about a heart operation [wife contributes]. [Tr. 13] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about arguments at work; using a new washing machine. [Tr. 14] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; relates a humorous anecdote about a fight between her young grandchildren. [Tr. 15] [Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about visiting dog and agricultural shows; keeping a bull terrier; puppies. [Tr. 16] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; relates humorous anecdotes about children coming into her shop; busy times of the week/season in the shop. [Tr. 1] [Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about lorry driving; accidents and reactions; lorries driven; articulated lorries. [Tr. 2] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; relates an anecdote about watching a football match; answers questionnaire; being assaulted on way home; [friend talks about having tonsils removed as a child]; being in hospital; daughter's accident as a child; [friend answers questionnaire and relates anecdotes about going to dances]. [Tr. 3] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about missing a train; boiling coffee. [Tr. 4] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about a sewing machine; ?grandson/?son; a chip pan fire. [Tr. 5] [Collector announcement]; male informant talks about building work in Leeds (father's business); Army service during World War One, including pay; father's business and its expansion; answers collector's questionnaire. [Tr. 6] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about going to a keep-fit class [male prompts]. [Tr. 7] 5 of 6.

Metadata

Identifier sgkv9s9r
IRN 414931
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A880r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/sgkv9s9r
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Houck, Charles L
Date [Mid 1960s-1970s]
Size and Medium 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 120' 08".

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