If you're interested in folk music (from around the world), then you should enjoy checking out Alan Lomax's audio collection. It's all now online and free to stream. It doesn't include earlier work ...

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 ...

People have always dealt with hard times by singing about them, and that seems to provide a source of comfort not only to the singer, but to listeners who might be enduring hard times of their own.

The legacy of Alan Lomax resides at New York's Hunter College in an area set aside for the more than 1,500 hours of field recordings, hundreds of photographs, films and manuscripts that make up the ...

Some of Alan Lomax's old field recordings are getting a surprising makeover. The Library of Congress recently acquired the personal archives of the late folklorist Lomax, including thousands of hours ...

During the early twentieth century, Alan Lomax and his father John traveled throughout the American South searching for the work songs, spirituals and folk tales that gave the region it’s unique ...

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 was an American field collector of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and ...

More than 17,000 sound recordings made by the famed folklorist are now available, for free. Folklorist Alan Lomax spent his career documenting folk music traditions from around the world. Now ...

NEW YORK -- -- Alan Lomax, the celebrated musicologist who helped preserve America's and the world's heritage by making thousands of recordings of folk, blues and jazz musicians from the 1930s onward, ...