CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6966
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Title:
Fred Wah Fonds
Source Collection ID:
MsC 17
Source Collection Description:
The Fred Wah fonds collects materials from Vancouver-based poet Fred Wah, who was appointed as Canadau2019s fifth Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2011 and has published 25 books between 1965 and 2016. Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939 and grew up in the West Kootenay region. His Chinese and Scots-Irish ethnic background and identity have a significant influence on his literary work. Wah completed an undergraduate degree in Literature and Music at the University of British Columbia, where he became a founding editor of the TISH newsletter in 1961, and has taught at Selkirk College, the David Thompson University Centre, and the University of Calgary. The fonds contains a number of interviews, conversations, lectures, and public readings recorded between the years 1976 and 2006, featuring local and national literary and media figures such as Lorna Crozier, bpNichol, Daphne Marlatt, and Stuart McLean.
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
SFU Library
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
Sub Series Title:
Fred Wah Fonds
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
bp Nichol reading at University of Alberta, 1974
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Title Note:
Title is created from cassette and j-card. PennSound lists this same cassette as a tape titled "bp Nichol," published in 1971 by High Barnet Company.
Language:
English
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Wah, Fred
Dates:
1935-
Name:
Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)
Dates:
1944-1988
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Good
Other Physical Description:
Title on cassette and j-card conflict:
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:31:43
Size:
33.9 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Content Type:
Sound Recording
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:31:45
Size:
34.1 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Content Type:
Sound Recording
Dates
Date:
1974
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
115 Street NW, University of Alberta Neighbourhood, Greater Strathcona, Edmonton, Edmonton (city), Alberta, T6G 1C9, Canada
Venue:
University of Alberta
Latitude:
53,5230690
Longitude:
-113,5303539
CONTENT
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
It seems tapes 50 and 51 belong to the same event. On this tape, bp is not reading "at" the University of Alberta. we believe that it was a tape that was sent to Fred Wah from the University of Alberta, which is why it says "from U of A" on the cassette. To this same end, it is not a live reading, but instead a studio recording which, we believe, later became "bp Nichol" (1971).
See PennSound #3: https://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Nichol.php.
Type:
General
Note:
The list of poems that bpNichol reads and performs are written on the j-card.
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