/digColl_confWorldAffairs

These digitized audio recordings present some of the memorable speakers and sessions from the early years of the Conference on World Affairs (1959-1994), including R. Buckminster Fuller, Henry Kissinger, Yitzhak Rabin, Marya Mannes, Huey P. Newton, Margot Adler, Ralph Nader, and I. F. Stone. Year by year, CWA recordings encapsulate the historic tenor of the times, as participants explore topics as diverse as civil rights, Castro, black power, the War on Poverty, student revolutions of the 1960s, Nixon, the women's movement, civil war in El Salvador, the fight for freedom in South Africa, the exploration of space, sexual liberation, nuclear deterrence, and the future of energy, music, language, jazz, and the arts. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25810/63mq-9r87

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Conference on World Affairs Audio Archive

Description

These digitized audio recordings present some of the memorable speakers and sessions from the early years of the Conference on World Affairs (1959-1994), including R. Buckminster Fuller, Henry Kissinger, Yitzhak Rabin, Marya Mannes, Huey P. Newton, Margot Adler, Ralph Nader, and I. F. Stone. Year by year, CWA recordings encapsulate the historic tenor of the times, as participants explore topics as diverse as civil rights, Castro, black power, the War on Poverty, student revolutions of the 1960s, Nixon, the women's movement, civil war in El Salvador, the fight for freedom in South Africa, the exploration of space, sexual liberation, nuclear deterrence, and the future of energy, music, language, jazz, and the arts.

Permanent address to digital collection: https://doi.org/10.25810/63mq-9r87.
Please use the same link when sharing or citing the collection.

Metadata

Collection Name

Name of the collection: Conference On World Affairs Archives

identifier

Contains a unique standard number or code that distinctively identifies a resource. Typically the file name. Example: cwa_57-1.mp3

title

Title derived from original captions on the work by the creator. If the original title is not available titles are created by the cataloger. Titles come from the CWA programs.

titleType

Program

titleSeries

Series statements come from the CWA programs. Examples: Plenary Session; Series XIII: Your Body; Series III: The Artist

subject

A term or phrase representing the primary topic(s) on which a work is focused. Common subject terms used in this collection include: Nuclear arms control; Nuclear disarmament; Motion pictures; Sex

subjectAuthorityUsed

OCLC FAST.

description

Additional notes or description of the content of the item. May contain cataloger's notes as deemed relevant. Descriptions in this collection state who the moderator of the panel was and includes timestamps (HH:MM:SS) for major topic changes, audience questions, or panelist changes.

descriptionType

Program

genre

A term or terms that designate a category characterizing a particular style, form, or content. Genre terms used in the collection include: Panel discussions

genreAuthorityUsed

LC Genre/Form Terms

coverageTemporal

Used for chronological subject terms or temporal coverage. Terms used:

coverageSpatial

Geographic location(s) relevant to the item. Some coverage terms used in the collection include: Macky Auditorium; UMC Center Ballroom; Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry 140; Old Main Chapel

contributor

Contributor to the work. Each contributor listed participated as a speaker or panelist.

contributorRole

Panelist

publisher

The name of the entity that published, printed, distributed, released, issued, or produced the resource: CWA/Archives, University of Colorado at Boulder.

publisherRole

Publisher

rightsSummary

Information about restrictions imposed on access to a resource.

Statement in collection: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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dateCreated

The date of creation of the resource. Date ranges include: 1950s-1990s.

formatPhysical

A particular physical presentation of a resource, including the physical form or medium of material for a resource. Format ranges from 1/4 inch audio cassette, 1/4 inch audio tape, and VHS.

formatDigital

Standard that indicates the nature and format of a document, file, or assortment of bytes. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is responsible for all official MIME.

Media type(s) in this collection: audio/mpeg

formatMediaType

A term that specifies the characteristics and general type of content of the resource. Type terms used in this collection include: Sound

formatGenerations

Audio/Original recording

formatStandard

MPEG Audio

formatEncoding

mp3

formatDataRate

128 kbps

formatBitDepth

16 bits

formatSamplingRate

44.1 kHz

formatTracks

1 audio track

formatChannelConfiguration

dual-channel mono

language

Contains the textual or coded form for the language of the content of the resource. Language(s) seen in this collection include: English

formatIdentifier

Link to the digital file.

formatIdentifierSource

CWA/Archives, University of Colorado at Boulder

Resources

Conference on World Affairs webpage; including archival programs from 2014-Present: https://www.colorado.edu/cwa/

For more information about this collection visit the webpage at the CU Boulder ArchivesSpace; Conference on World Affairs collection.

Notes

Please note that the metadata contained in this repository may not be the most up to date, but is updated on a continuing basis.

Contributor names that appear in brackets, for example [Diamond, Edwin], are panelists that were listed on the program and had intended to speak, but they did not attend the panel discussion.