Walt Reading

CLASSIFICATION

Swallow ID:

4566

Partner Institution:

University of British Columbia, Okanagan

Source Collection Label:

Warren Tallman fonds

Sub Series:

Warren Tallman fonds

ITEM DESCRIPTION

Title:

Walt Reading

Title Source:

Title written on box.

Language:

English

Production Context:

Classroom recording

Genre:

Reading: Poetry

Identifiers:

[]

Rights

Rights:

CREATORS

Name:

Tallman, Warren

Dates:

1921-1994

URL:

http://viaf.org/viaf/11397708

Role:

"Recordist"

Notes:

Warren Tallman was the professor of this graduate class and recorded this reading as organized by the students in that class. His voice is not present on the recording.

CONTRIBUTORS

Name:

García Lorca, Federico

Dates:

1898-1936

URL:

http://viaf.org/viaf/34456883

Role:

"Author"

Notes:

Lorca's poetry is read by a student in this recording.

Name:

Whitman, Walt

Dates:

1819-1892

URL:

http://viaf.org/viaf/2478331

Role:

"Author"

Notes:

Whitman's poetry is read by students in this recording.

Name:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Dates:

1803-1882

URL:

http://viaf.org/viaf/27079964

Role:

"Author"

Notes:

Letters from Emerson to Whitman are read by students in this recording.

Name:

James, Henry

Dates:

1843-1916

URL:

http://viaf.org/viaf/36920030

Role:

"Author"

Notes:

A letter from James to Whitman is read by a student in this recording.

Name:

Crane, Hart

Dates:

1899-1932

URL:

http://viaf.org/viaf/22140431

Role:

"Author"

Notes:

Crane's poetry is read by a student in this recording.

MATERIAL DESCRIPTION

Image:

Recording Type:

Analogue

AV Type:

Audio

Material Designation:

Reel to Reel

Physical Composition:

Magnetic Tape

Extent:

1/4 inch

Sound Quality:

Good

Physical Condition:

Good

DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION

Sample Rate:

96,000

Duration:

T00:56:01

Size:

1.86 GB

Bitrate:

Dates

Date:

1967

Type:

Performance Date

Source:

Secondary research.

Notes:

Warren Tallman references this event in his retirement speech, "How To Play Career and Win" (In the Midst, 253).

LOCATION

CONTENT

Contents:

This recording contains the audio from a public event hosted and performed by the graduate students of Warren Tallman's Walt Whitman English class in 1967. The poetry reading consists of approximately 12 students reading the poems and prose of Walt Whitman. Commercially recorded Civil War music is also played during a short intermission during the reading.

NOTES

Note:

Warren Tallman refers to this event in his book In the Midst: "In 1967 I taught a graduate Walt Whitman course. We put on a Whitman reading, really a group effort if ever there was one. So I gave an identical first class mark to each and all 12 participants. Bill Robbins frowned. The frown stayed on. In the 18 years since then my applications to teach graduate courses have been successful only twice, most recently, courtesy Ian Ross. I however, have taught a contemporary poetry course since 1959 in an on-campus, or at-home, or somewhere downtown, sort of way, aided and abetted for many years by Ellen, Karen, and Ken and a long parade of students, student poets, and poet friends, some of whom are here right now." (In the Midst, "How To Play Career and Win," 253). https://www-deslibris-ca.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/ID/409392

Type:

General

Note:

Digitization complete. Transcription complete.