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]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about a tram accident; relates a story about a dog. [Tr. 1]
[Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about work; watching England play Scotland in Glasgow; football clubs, players and supporters. [Tr. 2]
[Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about nearly being run over; amusing anecdote about a neighbour and window cleaner. [Tr. 3]
[Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about work and travelling in England; working as an organ builder; pipe and electric organs; making the wooden parts of organs; cinema organs. [Tr. 4]
[Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about serving in France on the Somme during World War One; a shelling incident and returning to the trenches; Armistice. [Tr. 5]
[Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about a car accident; anecdote re. Army service in Germany; the Army and alcohol; the American Army; German lager and beer. [Tr. 6]
[Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; humorous anecdotes regarding the Army and National Service whilst in Germany; German beer; beer and drinking; family's work in coal mines. [Tr. 7]
Experimental recording of Ann Brook; informant introduces herself; gives biographical details; talks of places lived; family; school; her work as a teacher; fiancé/boyfriend and his work; answers collector's questionnaire; talks of a childhood accident; her teaching work at a Secondary School, including music teaching, classes and the school day. [Tr. 8]
The second track on this tape contains a duplicate copy of Track One, and not Houck's reel 8 as stated on the accompanying Tape Table of Contents.
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