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WOSAS/CD334/track6 R1079.wav |
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Jimmy
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| a Man without a Story story; Stories about Storytelling story | |
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| Sound recording, story; Jimmy a wonder tale and transformation tale, from the man without a story and stories about storytelling group, from the Scots traveller tradition told by a pupil, as part of a performance Go Down in Legend, as the finale of a school storytelling project led by Ben Haggarty, in King Alfred's School, in an unidentified location in England, 4th February, 1990. | |
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| Completion of the frame story Jimmy told and acted out by two pupils and a pupil in role as the Master of Ceremonies. A story about a man at a harvest feast who can't tell a story and so leaves to pay a foreit. He goes to bale out a boat on the river. As the boat crosses the river the man becomes a women. On the other side of the river the now-women meets, marries and has a family with a man. Then one day the women is passing the river and notices a boat. She goes to bale out the boat. As the boat crosses the river, she becomes a man once again. The man returns to the harvest feast and tells his story, and is rewarded for telling the best story and the best lie. | |
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| audience:- | child; King Alfred's School Pupils; school group |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 5 minutes, 29 seconds |
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| storytelling; role-play:- |
storyteller; Master of Ceremonies; King Alfred's School
Pupil female / child |
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| storytelling; role-play:- |
storyteller; King Alfred's School Pupil female / child |
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| storytelling; role-play:- |
storyteller; King Alfred's School Pupil female / child |
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| origin:- |
Scotland
traveller |
| associated:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty
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| storytelling; role-play:- |
England: King Alfred's School
04 Feb 1990 educational event; school event: Go Down in Legend |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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