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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":["Mountain Pass No 33,34: Stan Persky at Terrace in Summer 1976 #33,34"],"item_title_source":["J-card and inventory"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Studio recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["[McNeill, Alan?]","Persky, Stan"],"creator_names_search":["[McNeill, Alan?]","Persky, Stan"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"[McNeill, Alan?] \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Interviewer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/57448780\",\"name\":\"Persky, Stan\",\"dates\":\"1941-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\",\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Shaddock, Phil"],"contributors_names_search":["Shaddock, Phil"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Shaddock, Phil\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"In the inventory it states that he is a Donor and we are not sure what it means\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Donor\"]}]"],"Production_Date":[1976],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/356/Reading in BC_MsC199_33,34.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:05:28\",\"physical_condition\":\"Very 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\":\"33,34-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:27:13\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"19.1 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\":\"33,34-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:37:06\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"25.8 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\":\"1976\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"Summer\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2222315\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Terrace, BC,Canada\",\"latitude\":\"54.5209\",\"longitude\":\"-128.6025\"}]"],"Address":["Terrace, BC,Canada"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\tOne\t000\tStan Persky : Writing and Politics\n\t\t\tPersky provides autobiographical sketch-gay consciousness- upon first reading Ginsberg and Kerouac-meeting San Francisco poets Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, George Stanley, Jack Spicer, Ron Loewinsohn-beginning of politicization through Ginsberg’s anti-war protests- increasing politicization within Canadian context i.e. student politics, gay liberation politics and socialist politics\n\t\t250\tPersky reads Nanaimo I\n\t\t\tDiscussion re relevance of Nanaimo I to present conditions – re Alcan workers strike in Kitimat B.C. – re political awareness and revolution\n\t\t430\tPersky reads Topic Sentence from a period referred to as Journal Writings\n\t\t\tDiscussion re the teaching of composition in the public school system : “The form and the behaviour that we were to display and be obedient to in a paragraph that we were being taught to write was exactly correspondent in not a conscious conspiratorial way but in a structural sense to the sort of obedient behaviour that we should display with respect to our appropriate stations in bourgeois society.  That is, we were to be well-behaved… “-topic sentence is a hoax, an invention… composing is the act of following out one perception after another- dialectical movement of thought (interviewer) – using Olson’s projective verse as his methodology- Nanaimo I as projective verse\n\t\t864\tPersky reads Phuoc Binh Statement – this poem was written after the realization concerning the lack of political awareness on the part of poets in the Canadian context – it is a statement of the relation between poetry and politics.  Discussion of the poem and ‘relevance’\n\t\t1020\tPersky’s question – Why are people so apolitical in this society or know so little about history as it relates to what human beings are trying to do?\n\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Mountain Pass Series - CFRO Stan Persky Writings and Politics Side 1 37:13 min. 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