[{"id":"6949","cataloger_name":["Donald,Shipton"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Fred Wah Fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Fred Wah Fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_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."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 17"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["bp Nichol reading for the Coast is Only a Line at Simon Fraser University on July 3, 1981"],"item_title_source":["J-card and Recording"],"item_title_note":["The content on this tape matches that of MsC 199.339a, (Reading in BC collection), so a title was created from this information in lieu of a photo of this tape itself (MsC 17.e.42)."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Tallman, Warren","Wah, Fred","Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)"],"creator_names_search":["Tallman, Warren","Wah, Fred","Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11397708\",\"name\":\"Tallman, Warren\",\"dates\":\"1921-1994\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\",\"Presenter\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/1330211\",\"name\":\"Wah, Fred\",\"dates\":\"1939-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Donor\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/76350280\",\"name\":\"Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)\",\"dates\":\"1944-1988\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\",\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Production_Date":[1981],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"Uploads/6949/Fred Wah Fonds_MsC 17 f_42.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"Wah2021-042-Side A.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:47:21\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"51 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"Wah2021-042-Side B.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:47:26\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"50 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"No content on this recording.\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1981-07-03\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"Recording\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/export#map=15/49.2767/-122.9182\",\"venue\":\"Simon Fraser University\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.2877\",\"longitude\":\"-122.9430\"}]"],"Address":["8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC, Canada"],"Venue":["Simon Fraser University"],"City":["Burnaby, British Columbia"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"This tape records the same event as The Readings in BC \\\"The Coast is Only a Line: B.P. 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