Peter Kennedy Archive: A unique collection of British and Irish traditional music and customs
Resource type
Website
Creator (person)
Pace, Andrew
Date published
2016
Abstract
This website focuses on the periods during the 1950s when Peter travelled around the UK and Ireland recording traditional musicians and local customs whilst working on the BBC’s ‘Folk Music and Dialect Recording Scheme’.
Peter documented these collecting trips in a number of reports written for the BBC at the time, of which 31 have been found in his archive. These daily summaries of who he recorded, when and where contain a great deal of valuable information that help us to make sense of what’s in his collection.
This website turns these pages into interactive images to present the story of Peter’s collecting trips in his own words, ‘attaching’ his sound recordings and photographs to his text. Over 650 performance events by 550 different performers are detailed in this way. This presents us with a unique insight into Peter’s work and provides an interesting way to explore his collection.
Contributor (organisation)
British Library
City University London
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
UK
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