Great news for music fans: priceless recordings made by folklorist Alan Lomax are being digitised and around 17,000 music tracks will be available for free streaming by the end of February. Lomax, the ...

This is FRESH AIR. Early in his career, clarinetist Andy Biskin worked as an assistant to the folklorist Alan Lomax. Biskin's new album features new settings of songs drawn from Lomax's massive ...

In the summer of 1934, John and Alan Lomax came to south Louisiana to record and in some cases, photograph musicians singing their songs. The recording became a part of the Lomax Collection that can ...

The lifework of the late legendary American folklorist Alan Lomax has been acquired by the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. “I think it’s the jewel in the crown of the collections ...

“I thought of Alan as a Minotaur—half man, half supernatural—who defied life as we know it,” said Alan Lomax’s friend and fellow folklorist Bill Ferris in his keynote address of the 2006 American ...

The folklorist Alan Lomax's collection, which had been housed at Hunter College, has been acquired by the Library of Congress, thanks to a contribution from an anonymous donor, according to an ...

Alan Lomax’s extensive archive of field recordings is being digitized for an online collection that will begin streaming by the end of February. Some 17,000 of Lomax’s recordings will be available for ...

Folk-music collector, ethnographer, and archivist Alan Lomax, who died in 2002, was born 100 years ago in 1915. From 1937 to 1942, he was assistant in charge of the Archive of Folk Culture at the ...

Alan Lomax single-handedly (and some would say, heavy-handedly) saved the folk music from oblivion. Son of John Lomax, Alan travelled across the US and around the world recording folk musicians in ...

Alan Lomax's (1915-2002) field recordings and research heightened our awareness of folk music, i.e. Americana. He reintroduced many of us to our cultural origins where other musical genres received ...