Alan Lomax's archive goes online

Folklorist's archive of 17,000 field recordings to begin streaming for free, including music from Britain, Ireland and the USOne of the biggest collections of field recordings is to go online. The Association for Cultural Equity is to begin streaming 17,000 tracks recorded by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, including music from Britain, Ireland, the US, the Caribbean and the former USSR.Arguably the world's second most famous folklorist (after his father, John), Lomax spent much of the 20th centur...

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