Stella Jenkins interviewed by Rob Willis in the Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3066817
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Jenkins, Stella, 1908-2006, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2001 Jun
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 112 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. TAPE 1: Stella Jenkins recalls her family background; her father working on stations; father acquiring a property at Tooraweenah, N.S.W. which had an opal mine; her grandfather's family (name of Shumack); rural life in N.S.W. in the early 1900s; her mother's bush medical remedies; starting music lessons in Gilgandra, N.S.W. at age 9; her school days; family musical interests; father joining Big Brother Movement (a child migration scheme); woolshed dances on father's property; concertina, button acordion and various other instruments used for dances; early musical influences; early transport being a horse and sulky; having played for Masonic balls & training the debutantes; the various bands she has played with; Odfellows Balls, doing the Lodge Waltz; playing for the silent movies in her teens; family getting the first Ford car in the area; wedding customs of the day.
Tape 2 : Stella Jenkins recalls playing techniques for the silent movies; old time waltz competitions; teaching debutantes; dances applicable to deutante balls; debutante etiquette; rates of pay as a musician over the years; playing tempi for the various dances; MC's role at a dance; her work and marriage;
- Partial contents:
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- TAPE 1 Conversation: describing a square dance set
- describes other dances
- demonstrates the Armatree Brown Jug Polka (dance)
- Singing: Redwing (fragment)
- TAPE 2 Music (Piano): polka tune (unidentified)
- schottische tune (unidentified)
- polka tune (unidentified)
- varsovienna tune (unidentified)
- Loveliest night of the year (old time waltz)
- mazurka tune (unidentified)
- Click go the shears (unidentified)
- Singing: Never be a shearer (her name for the song)
- Music (Piano) Never be a shearer
- unidentified tune set for the silent movies as an example of the type of music played
- unidentified tune set for the silent movies
- Conversation: describes Lancers dance
- Music (Piano) tune used for the Lodge Waltz
- unidentified tune for a waltz
- unidentified tune
- unidentified tune
- Redwing.
- Notes:
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- Recorded with John Harpley.
- Recorded on June 17, 2001- June 18, 2001 at Coonabarabran, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Related Material:
- Related video recording with Stella Jenkins: located at; National Library of Australia Oral History & Indigenous Programs collection at ORAL TRC 6936/45.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.)
- Subject:
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- Jenkins, Stella, 1908-2006 -- Interviews
- Folk musicians -- New South Wales -- Coonabarabran -- Interviews
- Dance parties -- New South Wales -- 20th century
- Folk dance music -- New South Wales -- 20th century
- Rural communities -- Economic aspects -- New South Wales -- History -- 1901-1945
- Rural communities -- Social aspects -- New South Wales -- History -- 1901-1945
- Occupation:
- Folk musicians
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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- Until 2071 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2001
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