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:: Title :: |
Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about bothy courtship and farm laboring conditions |
:: Genre :: |
interview, spoken |
:: Performers & Instruments :: |
Lomax, Alan [vocal] |
MacBeath, Jimmy [vocal] |
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:: Setting :: |
Probably Alan Lomax's flat |
:: Location :: |
London (None), London (England) |
:: Language :: |
Scots |
:: Culture :: |
Scottish, Lowland Scots, Aberdonian, Scottish Traveller |
:: Session :: |
Jimmy MacBeath 11/53
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:: Date :: |
11/14/1953 |
:: Reference Information :: |
T3439.0, Track 11 (00:05:51) |
:: Original Format :: |
Reel to Reel
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:: Session Notes :: |
1 - Interviews with and songs sung by Jimmy MacBeath. [Source: Editor] |
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:: Recording Notes :: |
0 - MacBeath discusses couples spending the night together in the bothies, and the miserable conditions of farm labor - working in all weather, sleeping on beds of chaff filled with mice, gruel ("brose") for breakfast, and a lack of tea. [Source: Editor] |
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:: Collection :: |
Scotland 1951, 1953, and 1958 |
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