Traditional music in England

Norman House intervieew

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  • Type

    sound

  • Duration

    00:03:55

  • Cultures

    English

  • Subjects

    English folk songs and music (Dorset)

  • Recording date

    1986-04-05

  • Is part of (Collection)

    Nick and Mally Dow Collection

  • Recording locations

    Beaminster, Dorset, England, UK

  • Interviewees

    House, Norman, 1929- (speaker, male), House, Rosemary (speaker, female)

  • Interviewers

    Dow, Mally, 1944- (speaker, female), Dow, Nick (speaker, male)

  • Recordist

    Dow, Mally

  • Abstract

    Norman House talks briefly about his grandfather, the singer George House, from whom the Hammonds' collected in 1906. Nick Dow talks about the Hammonds' and the songs that they published from Beaminster.

  • Description

    Interviewee notes: Retired hurdlemaker and thatcher and his son. Recording notes: Split over two sides of the cassette

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