Alan Lomax's Massive [Folk Music Related] Archive Goes Online
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/03/28/148915022/alan-lomaxs-massive-archive-goes-online
Folklorist Alan Lomax spent his career documenting folk music
traditions from around the world. Now thousands of the songs and
interviews he recorded are available for free online, many for
the first time. It's part of what Lomax envisioned for the
collection -- long before the age of the Internet. Lomax
recorded a staggering amount of folk music. He worked from the
1930s to the '90s, and traveled from the Deep South to the
mountains of West Virginia, all the way to Europe, the Caribbean
and Asia. When it came time to bring all of those hours of sound
into the digital era, the people in charge of the Lomax archive
weren't quite sure how to tackle the problem. "We err on the
side of doing the maximum amount possible," says Don Fleming,
executive director of the Association for Cultural Equity, the
nonprofit organization Lomax founded in New York in the '80s.
Fleming and a small staff made up mostly of volunteers have
digitized and posted some 17,000 sound recordings.
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