| Description | Assembly for the 'Battle of St Ann's'.
Tracks 1-9 are assemblies for the programme.
Track 1: Insert? almost inaudible 'shock to the body?' 0.14 mins.
Track 2: Dialogue on rotting housing/rehousing/clearance causing both hope and cynicism to the residents of St Ann's. Charles Parker. 0.314 mins
Track 3: Inserts of residents discussing their regret at being rehoused and leaving the area they have lived in all their lives etc. 0.59 mins.
Track 4: Inserts of residents discussing the dehumanising approach of the council, complaints and confusion over the rehousing and clearance etc. 2.50 mins.
Tracks 5-6: Inserts of residents discussing the conversion of buildings into factories and the problems caused by the pork farm factory: the residents attempts to take action such as petitions and complaints, the effect of the factory: the smell, noise and grease to the residents environment and the disillusionment of the residents that the authorities have failed to address the issues.
Track 7: Inserts of residents discussing town planners and the lack of consultation with the residents over the design of the new estates, about the new houses, concerns about the quality of the building and the opinion that they are building new slums/the slums of the future. 1.58 mins.
Track 8: Inserts of members of the social studies groups discussing union activity in the area. Discussions regarding what the residents may have been able to achieve if they had been able to form themselves into a pressure group. 1.26 mins.
Track 9: Inserts of residents and members of the social studies groups discussing the community needing to challenge the authorities effectively. 0.54 mins: performed by Ken Coates, Richard Silburn and Charles Parker with inserts of interviews with residents and social study group members.
Tracks 10-23 are recordings of a lecture/confrontational exchange with an unidentified person in an unidentified location, the dialogue is Charles Parker discussing his work and using examples from past projects. The recording continues on MS 4000/6/1/66/27.
Track 10: Silence 0.39 mins.
Tracks 11-12: A discussion regarding Charles Parkers approach and view of his work and a sequence that illustrates his points; he uses the phrase 'the microphone allows us to re-enter the oral tradition' and he is challenged over his use of such terms as 'poetry'.
Track 13: Sequence of actuality from 'Ballad of John Axon' used as an example of his work to illustrate a point Parker is making in discussion. 1.51 mins.
Tracks 14-18 The discussion continues with Charles Parker outlining his method of work, actuality, 'poetry', local dialect/gargon and how people use language. The discussion moves onto education and against ordered thought/speech: Parker is challenged that he is very educated and articulate. The discussion moves onto Charles Parker's view that literature and oral tradition must come together, the danger of 'defining tradition' and 'creating pastiches'. The discussion moves onto Charles Parker's view that the oral tradition and 'slice of life' is doomed. Discussions cover folk/tradition songs and the musical hall, expessing the universal and the actuality. The discussion moves onto Charles Parker's view that music allows people to enter imaginatively into a new experience, music in relation to speech, then music reality/actuality and the music industries ability to produce illusions. The discussion covers humility, actuality and a sequence from 'The Big Hewer'.
Track 19: Sequence from 'The Big Hewer', music by Ewan McColl. 3.06 mins.
Tracks 20-21 The discussion continues with Charles Parker regarding the music and effects in the sequence; he states he is not concerned with reinstating the folk tradition he is concerned with finding a way of communicating to this generation an experience'. The discussion continues regarding his use/presentation of original and created material, of 'using spoken language as raw material for creation', 'release the quality that is in it' and of the need to edit the dialogue.
Track 22: Section from 'Any Dark Morning' music by Elizabeth Muchin?. 2.12 mins.
Track 23: Discussions about the sequence and the progress he feels he has made since his early work. 1.38 mins.
Total: 53.57 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF573E0535280 |