[{"id":"6946","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 from The Martyrology at SFU on July 8, 1983 Tape 2 of 3 - DUPLICATE 2 of 2"],"item_title_source":["J-card and Recording"],"item_title_note":["Title created using information from the j-cards of #38 and #40 also, a series to which this tape belongs."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Wah, Fred","Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)"],"creator_names_search":["Wah, Fred","Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)"],"creators":["[{\"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":[1983],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"Uploads/6946/Fred Wah Fonds_MsC 17f_39.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\":\"Wah2021-039-Side A.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:47:29\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"50.6 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\":\"Wah2021-039-Side B.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:47:55\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"51.5 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\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1983-07-08\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"Date gleaned from the j-cards of #38 and #40 also, a series to which this tape belongs.\",\"source\":\"j-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/export#map=15/49.2767/-122.9182\",\"venue\":\"Simon Fraser University\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Simon Fraser University, University Drive East, Burnaby, Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, V5A 4Y6, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.2884\",\"longitude\":\"-122.9430\"}]"],"Address":["Simon Fraser University, University Drive East, Burnaby, Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, V5A 4Y6, Canada"],"Venue":["Simon Fraser University"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t000\t-begins halfway through Book 3 part V\n\t\t\t“hot night/sleepless in bed/I drempt of nothing…”\n\t\t090\tBook 3, part VI “Snow across the prairies”\n\t\t171\t- skips over “INTERLUDE : Double Vision”, and most of part VII\n\t\t173\tReads the last two parts of part VII, beginning “how is it done how is it said”\n\t\t200\tPart VIII “gazing into the sky”\n\t\t424\t“CODA: Mid-Initial Sequence”\n\t\t526\tSide one ends\nTwo\t\t000\tbp beings reading Book 4\n\t\t\t“purpose is a porpoise/a conceit”\n\t\t366\tBook 4 ends"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"This tape is the duplicate of Fred Wah fonds \\\"bp Nichol reading from The Martyrology at SFU on July 8, 1983 Tape 2 of 3 - DUPLICATE 1 of 2\\\" (SWALLOW ID 6944) and from Readings in BC collection: bp Nichol reading from \\\"The Martyrology\\\" at SFU on July 8, 1983 part 2 of 3 #414 (SWALLOW ID 5664). 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