Monday, May 16, 2005

The Alan Lomax Archive


The Alan Lomax Archive is located at the MFA Campus of Hunter College in New York City. The Archive contains:
  • Copies of field recordings, radio shows, concerts, and ballad operas by Alan Lomax
  • Copies of interviews and discussions between Lomax and artists and colleagues
  • DVD copies of videos and films produced by Alan Lomax
  • Photographs by Alan Lomax and others
  • Alan Lomax's personal collection of 78s, 45s and LPs
  • Performance Style and Culture research papers, digital files, and audio samples
  • Copies of logs, field notes, letters, manuscripts, research papers, permissions and contracts, correspondence
  • A prototype of the Global Jukebox
The originals of Alan Lomax's recordings, videos, photos, and papers were acquired by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress where they are titled the Alan Lomax Collection.

See also michael naimark on The Global Jukebox

And then there's The Vera Hall Project
made famous in a re-mix by Moby.