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. This tape starts with a compilation of responses to the question Before a flower has a blossom, it will have a [answer: bud]. This word is given by a number of informants, selected at random from the collector's field recordings [and used by him for demonstration purposes]. [Tr. 1] The first informant, Miss Marshall, gives questionnaire responses; followed by discussion of her involvement in fox-hunting; and talk of horses (care of, buying and selling). [Tr. 2] [Tape playback speed changes from 19cm/sec. to 9.5cm/sec.] [Collector announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talk of accidents/injuries whilst working at a [textile] mill, including during World War One. [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talk of a hoover salesman; preparing a Christmas dinner. [Tr. 4] [Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talk of [motorbike] riding from Naples to Rome and near accident; bike riding in London and near accident. [Tr. 5] [Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talk of near fatal mountain accident in Italy; and service with the Royal Air Force in Italy during World War Two. [Tr. 6] [Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talk of capture whilst serving in the Western desert during World War Two; time spent in prison camps; leaving a camp at the end of the war. [Tr. 7] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talk of [motor] accident when a girl. [Tr. 8] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talk of accident at a dressmakers'; near accident when learning to drive. [Tr. 9] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talk of fear of house being burgled. [Tr. 10] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about her role in a play at Leeds' Civic Theatre; anecdote about a missing actor; outline of the play. [Tr. 11] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talk of a driving accident on the way to Wetherby. [Tr. 12] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talk of ducks and an iced-over canal; her work as a lecturer at the Yorkshire Training College of Housecraft ; wool and washing/shrinking; wool quality. [Tr. 13] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about a motoring accident and compensation; mistaken identity at a social function. [Tr. 14] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talk of an accident whilst on a cruise; time spent in Bermuda during the holiday season. [Tr. 15] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talk of near accident on the road from York to Keighley. [Tr. 16] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talk of holidaying in Scotland and encountering the Lancashire accent. [Tr. 17] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talk of a Mr. Hewitt and decorating a kitchen. [Tr. 18] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talk of rock climbing on the Cow and Calf rocks, Ilkley Moor; camping trip on the moors near Pateley Bridge. [Tr. 19] [Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talk of air raids in London during World War Two; husband and a horse-drawn mail van; journeys to Bushey; son's schoolteacher. [Tr. 20] 1 of 6.

Metadata

Identifier vbkfpw8j
IRN 414927
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A876r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/vbkfpw8j
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: 115' 38".

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