Add to ORKGIn 1938, a young folk music collector named Alan Lomax—destined to become one of the legendary folklorists of the 20th century recorded Michigan’s richly varied folk music traditions for the Archive of American Folk-Song at the Library of Congress. Michigan in the 1930s was experiencing a golden age of folksong collecting, as local folklorists mined the trove of ballads remembered by aging lumbermen and Great Lakes schoonermen. In addition to the ballads of these north woods singers, Lomax recorded a vibrant mix of ethnic music from Detroit to the western Upper Peninsula. The multimedia performance event Folksongs from Michigan-i-o combines live performance with historic images, color movie footage, and recorded sound from the Great Depress...
Alan Lomax's career was long, almost seventy years, and his interests many and varied. He achieved ...
In 1959 and 1960, Alan Lomax revisited the American South to record the still-living stream of tradi...
Includes songs sung with guitar.Gift of the Delaware Folklore Society, March 1956.http://www.lib.ude...
In 1938, a young folk music collector named Alan Lomax—destined to become one of the legendary folkl...
In the fall I had the pleasure of working with twenty-two musicians on a concert featuring American...
Snapshots primarily documenting sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lo...
In the spring of 1939, Texas folklorist John Avery Lomax began his Southern States Recording Expedit...
My presentation will explore the relationship between the fiddle playing of Buncombe County’s Marcus...
In 1933, John A. Lomax and his son Alan set out as emissaries for the Library of Congress to record ...
The Archive of Folk Song, renamed the Archive of Folk Culture in 1981, has provided over fifty years...
Though ascribed a prominent place in narratives of the American folk movement, a comprehensive model...
Ivan H. Walton was a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs and stories of aging sailors livi...
In 1959 and 1960, Alan Lomax revisited the American South to record the still-living stream of tradi...
In 1959 and 1960, Alan Lomax revisited the American South to record the still-living stream of tradi...
In 1959 and 1960, Alan Lomax revisited the American South to record the still-living stream of tradi...
Alan Lomax's career was long, almost seventy years, and his interests many and varied. He achieved ...
In 1959 and 1960, Alan Lomax revisited the American South to record the still-living stream of tradi...
Includes songs sung with guitar.Gift of the Delaware Folklore Society, March 1956.http://www.lib.ude...
In 1938, a young folk music collector named Alan Lomax—destined to become one of the legendary folkl...
In the fall I had the pleasure of working with twenty-two musicians on a concert featuring American...
Snapshots primarily documenting sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lo...
In the spring of 1939, Texas folklorist John Avery Lomax began his Southern States Recording Expedit...
My presentation will explore the relationship between the fiddle playing of Buncombe County’s Marcus...
In 1933, John A. Lomax and his son Alan set out as emissaries for the Library of Congress to record ...
The Archive of Folk Song, renamed the Archive of Folk Culture in 1981, has provided over fifty years...
Though ascribed a prominent place in narratives of the American folk movement, a comprehensive model...
Ivan H. Walton was a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs and stories of aging sailors livi...
In 1959 and 1960, Alan Lomax revisited the American South to record the still-living stream of tradi...
In 1959 and 1960, Alan Lomax revisited the American South to record the still-living stream of tradi...
In 1959 and 1960, Alan Lomax revisited the American South to record the still-living stream of tradi...
Alan Lomax's career was long, almost seventy years, and his interests many and varied. He achieved ...
In 1959 and 1960, Alan Lomax revisited the American South to record the still-living stream of tradi...
Includes songs sung with guitar.Gift of the Delaware Folklore Society, March 1956.http://www.lib.ude...