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Quite a few of these recordings are unique copies, not to be found elsewhere."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Dorothy Livesay Tapes, CBC recording: Gwendolyn Macewan and Dorothy Livesay reading, 1969 and 1971 #371 "],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Studio recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Livesay, Dorothy","Macewan, Gwendolyn"],"creator_names_search":["Livesay, Dorothy","Macewan, Gwendolyn"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/116854541\",\"name\":\"Livesay, Dorothy\",\"dates\":\"1909-1966\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/115290827\",\"name\":\"Macewan, Gwendolyn\",\"dates\":\"1941-1981\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Production_Date":[1969],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/1381/Readings in BC_MsC199_371.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Sony\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"2 track\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"White clear jewel case with J card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"playback_mode":["Stereo"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"371-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:32:51\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"31.7 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"371-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:38:50\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"37.6 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1969-04-26\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"reading by Gwendolyn Macewan\",\"source\":\"J-card\"},{\"date\":\"1971-03-20\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"reading by Gwendolyn Macewan\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3764261726\",\"venue\":\"CBC Vancouver\",\"notes\":\"We assume that this tape was recorded in Vancouver. We don't know where CBC Vancouver located before 1975, now its address is  700 Hamilton Street\\nVancouver, British Columbia\\nV6B 4A2\",\"address\":\"Vancouver,  British Columbia, V6B 4P4, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.27868\",\"longitude\":\"-123.11458\"}]"],"Address":["Vancouver,  British Columbia, V6B 4P4, Canada"],"Venue":["CBC Vancouver"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t\tEmpty\nTwo\t\t003\tFrom a CBC recording – begins in mid performance\n\t\t\tGwendolyn MacEwan On the Duende\n\t\t\tDuende in the poetics of Layton, Yeats\n\t\t254\tRecording ends abruptly\n\t\t260\t“The Real Name of the Sea” – Gwendolyn MacEwan – from another CBC recording\n\t\t302\t“In McGill Park, Summer”\n\t\t314\t“Dining at the Severin”\n\t\t341\t“Moon Landing – 1969”\n\t\t358\tEnd of reading\n\t\t361\t“A soft bomb behind the eyes – The poetry of Dorothy Livesay” – from a radio program (CKUA radio-Edmonton)\n\t\t373\tHost introduces Dorothy Livesay – a brief history\n\t\t399\t“And if I hurt my knee…”\n\t\t406\tPoetry as a chant to ward off evil\n\t\t412\t“Hymn to Man”\n\t\t452\t“The Rat”\n\t\t483\tPoetry is…\n\t\t489\t“Weapons”\n\t\t499\t“Blindness”\n\t\t517\tLivesay on her later poetry\n\t\t524\t“On Looking Into Henry Moore”\n\t\t535\t“The Message of the Tree is This”\n\t\t567\tPoetry as a record of emotion\n\t\t576\t“These dreams abound…”\n\t\t643\t“The Unquiet Bed”\n\t\t654\t“The Taming”\n\t\t675\t“The Notations of Love”  “You left me nothing…”\n\t\t730\t“Dismantling our house…”\n\t\t742\t“Dream”\n\t\t755\t“The Uninvited”\n\t\t791\t“Now you have released me from your grip…”\n\t\t816\tPoetry as a comment on our times\n\t\t823\t“The Artifact : West Coast”\n\t\t938\tEnd of reading\n\t\t947\tEnd of tape"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553270878209,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:57.732Z","score":4.9116282}]