From the time that Alan Lomax left his position as head of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1942 through the end of his long career, he amassed one of the most important collections of ethnographic material in the world. It includes more than 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of motion picture film, hundreds of photographic prints and negatives, over 120 linear feet of correspondence, field notes, research files, and much more. While recording for the Library of C...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Each record in this series covers the folk music of one country or region of the world. Each will contain the sounds of the instruments, dances and songs native to that area, taken down from authentic performers in the isolated places where songs are handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth and music is still a hand-made art. The folk songs of rural Europe and America are linked with the musics of older civilization and these again with the chants of primitive man. And ...   [ read more ]

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