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Recording in envelope stamped with University of Lethbridge."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Classroom recording"],"item_identifiers":["[28.3.2]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2026"],"creator_names":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/120613489\",\"name\":\"Kroetsch, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1927-2011\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Wiebe, Rudy","McDonald, Marguerite"],"contributors_names_search":["Wiebe, Rudy","McDonald, Marguerite"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/39385421\",\"name\":\"Wiebe, Rudy\",\"dates\":\"1934-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"McDonald, Marguerite\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Interviewer\"]}]"],"Interviewer_name":["McDonald, Marguerite"],"Speaker_name":["Wiebe, Rudy"],"Performance_Date":[1976],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Sony\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Poor\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"RK_MsC_27_28.3-2\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:18:28\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"608.74 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1976-05-06\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Date taken from creation dates listed for item level descriptions in archival finding aid for the Robert Kroetsch fonds Item number 28.3.2\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"Canada AM / CBR Calgary\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Calgary, Alberta, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Calgary, Alberta, Canada"],"Venue":["Canada AM / CBR Calgary"],"City":["Calgary, Alberta"],"content_notes":["Transcript of interview included in folder. The casette is enclosed in an envelope with the University of Lethbridge Department of English stamped on it\n- The file contains a full transcription of the interview.\n- Begins mid-sentence with introduction by Marguerite McDonald\n- Robert Kroetsch and Wiebe are at a piano with Collie Banks, they didn’t know they were already being recorded.\n- Rudy was a singer – he sings “Amazing Grace” then Robert Kroetsch sings “Wild, Wild Women”\n- [00:03:07] interview on approach to prairie writing\n- Beer parlours and prairie stories – Wiebe says there are only certain types of stories that you can hear at parlours\n- Space and the prairies – W “space has everything in it” you just have to look\n- Always in relationship with the landscape/earth and the prairies make you aware of this relationship\n- W – man is vertical compared to flatness of prairies, man moves while landscape remains immutable\n- K – why movement across prairies so important to novels\n- K – doesn’t like generalizations about the prairies\n- K – as writers we accept the prairies – earlier writers (Grove, Ross) trying to resist the prairies – trying to impose another cultural pattern onto it\n- W – old writers had a sense that somehow the prairies had to be improved, whereas current writers now live and move within the prairie space and work with it\n- W – When writing Big Bear travelled his prairie routes. Wiebe didn’t try to write notes during the journey, wanted to feel the experience\n- K – did the same for Badlands – a week on Red Deer River\n- Commenting on the quote about Canadian literature that “it’s by our lack of ghosts we’re haunted”: W – disagrees, gives examples of buffalo jumps which are over 4000 years old. He insists that we have ghosts, but it’s “by our ignorance that we’re haunted” because we don’t know or refuse the history.\n- K – in writing, you look for a story that acts out inside of you\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558522146818,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.4550953}]