| Ref No | MS 4000/5/3/1/10 |
| Title | 'A Ballad Hunter looks at Britain: 6'. The sixth of eight programmes about British folk music, by Alan Lomax, in the company of Hamish Henderson, called 'Songs from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland'.
And the third of five programmes in the BBC Third programme series 'Epic Survivals in Europe, Africa and Asia': 'Traces of the Epic in Africa' introduced by K. P. Wachsmann.'
(Part 1. Part 2 continues on MS 4000/5/3/1/11). |
| Level | File |
| Date | n.d. [1957; 1963] |
| Description | Tracks 2 to 16 form the 'Ballad Hunter in Britain' programme.
Tracks 18 to 32 form the 'Epic Survivals' programme. This is incomplete here. It continues on MS 4000/ 5/3/1/11
Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.15 Description of track: Tape noise
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 0.21 Description of track: Programme announcement
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 1.01 Description of track: Whaling song
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 1.17 Description of track: Fiddle tunes including 'The merry boys of Greenland'
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 2.34 Description of track: Courting practices, dances. Shetland dance tunes.
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 1.27 Description of track: Shetland spinning song
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 1.54 Description of track: Fairy song in Gaelic
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 1.00 Description of track: Charms
Track 9: Duration (min/sec): 0.56 Description of track: Hymn chanted without music
Track 10: Duration (min/sec): 2.43 Description of track: Animal sound songs on Barra
Track 11: Duration (min/sec): 3.12 Description of track: Work songs: waulking songs
Track 12: Duration (min/sec): 3.23 Description of track: Drinking songs
Track 13: Duration (min/sec): 3.41 Description of track: Campbeltown. Song 'Nancy whisky'.
Track 14: Duration (min/sec): 3.13 Description of track: Glasgow. Song 'Johnny lad'
Track 15: Duration (min/sec): 2.28 Description of track: Enoch Kent Sings a song learned from Jimmy Macbeth
Track 16: Duration (min/sec): 0.36 Description of track: End of programme announcement
Track 17: Duration (min/sec): 0.12 Description of track: Silence
Track 18: Duration (min/sec): 1.09 Description of track: Introduction. Recitation from the Bahima of Ankole in Uganda
Track 19: Duration (min/sec): 2.45 Description of track: Epic and living oral traditions in Africa
Track 20: Duration (min/sec): 0.48 Description of track: Bahima women singing
Track 21: Duration (min/sec): 4.13 Description of track: Bairu singing about the warrior Ruyombe
Track 22: Duration (min/sec): 1.21 Description of track: Bahima recitation: praise of cattle
Track 23: Duration (min/sec): 1.38 Description of track: Ephemeral nature of recitations
Track 24: Duration (min/sec): 2.00 Description of track: Recitation
Track 25: Duration (min/sec): 2.08 Description of track: Watutsi tribe in Rwanda. Use of poetry. Guardians of it.
Track 26: Duration (min/sec): 1.33 Description of track: Song: Ibabazabahizi
Track 27: Duration (min/sec): 1.24 Description of track: Song from the 1830s.
Track 28: Duration (min/sec): 0.55 Description of track: Zulu song
Track 29: Duration (min/sec): 1.13 Description of track:
Track 30: Duration (min/sec): 2.46 Description of track: Panegyric song from Madagascar
Track 31: Duration (min/sec): 3.12 Description of track: Swahili music difficult to find
Track 32: Duration (min/sec): 2.10 Description of track: Survival of epic songs and music. Programme breaks off.
Track 33: Duration (min/sec): 1.09 Description of track: Silence
Total duration: (min/sec): 60.37 |
| Related Material | See MS 4000/ 1/7/3 for script of the 'Traces of the epic in Africa' programme. |
| Physical Description | Listening copy: 1 x CD-R serial number NF220T0915974
Original tape:
Size: 7" tape reel
Gauge: 1/4" tape (0.625cm)
Speed: 7.5ips (19cm/s);
EQ Curve used: IEC
Track configuration: Half Track Mono
Dubbing Date: 03/03 |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |