Interview with Lewis Burt about Tyneside keelmen, Durham miners, working conditions in the mines, and miners' broadsheets

Audio file
Date recorded: December 11, 1953
Contributor(s): Performer: Lomax, Alan; Performer: Burt, Lewis; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: interview/commentary
Culture: English
Instruments: voice
Setting: The home of Lewis Burt, 30 Front Street
Location: Hetton-Le-Hole, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T3349
Track Number: 1
Archive ID: T3349R01
Note: Lewis Burt and Alan Lomax discuss Tyneside keelmen and keel songs; Durham's colliers, miners, and mine explosions; miners' "self-help" through peddling broadsheets of topical songs; the similarities between the labor of Durham miners and American blacks; and the shipment of labor from Durham to American mines in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland (1821-1950).
Belongs to: Hetton-Le-Hole 12/53
About the session: Ballads, mining songs, and children's songs sung by and interviews with Lewis Burt, Albert Colvill, Ernest Peachey, and others.
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