Music has become more digitized than ever, yet two documentary filmmakers seek to recapture the wonder of field recordings on good ol’ acetate. Using a single microphone and a 1930s direct-to-disc ...

When ethnomusicologist and folklorist Alan Lomax died in 2002, he left behind a gigantic library of research materials—in other words, a treasure trove of crystallized musical Americana. Now, a decade ...

Renowned ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax spent a lifetime archiving the sounds of the world’s rich folk traditions and today, vast amounts of his archival work are finally available everywhere. According ...

More than 17,000 sound recordings made by the famed folklorist are now available, for free. Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online Folklorist Alan Lomax spent his career documenting folk music ...

Before his 2002 death, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax spent decades recording and archiving the world’s traditional music. Now the organization he founded, the Association for Cultural Equity, is aiming ...

In , we showed you who Alan Lomax was and why his recordings are so important. In part two, Corey Adkins takes us to Beaver Island to meet some people who are trying to keep those songs and stories ...

Alan Lomax - Musicologist,researcher,author,educator producer (1915 - 2002) Musicologist, writer, and producer Alan Lomax spent over six decades working to promote knowledge and appreciation of the ...

Alan Lomax, the celebrated folklorist and musicologist whose collections of thousands of recordings of folk, jazz and blues musicians since the 1930s helped preserve America’s and the world’s heritage ...

Alan Lomax spent more than a half-century recording folk music and customs around the world, and now he is the subject of a new book by John Szwed called Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World. In ...

Alan Lomax earned many titles during his 87 years on Earth -- musician, writer, filmmaker, musicologist, folklorist, ethnologist, activist, scholar -- but he's best known for his efforts to record and ...