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When ethnomusicologist and folklorist Alan Lomax died in 2002, he left behind a gigantic library of research materials—in other words, a treasure trove of crystallized musical Americana. Now, a decade ...

Alan Lomax spent more than a half-century recording folk music and customs around the world, and now he is the subject of a new book by John Szwed called Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World. In ...

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 ...

The late Alan Lomax brings the sound of Haiti to life. Recordings that Lomax made decades ago are now being released as a 10- disc box set, along with a journal and other artifacts from his trip to ...

The lifework of the late legendary American folklorist Alan Lomax has been acquired by the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. "I think it's the jewel in the crown of the collections ...

Musician and ethnomusicologist Stephen Wade first listened to the Library of Congress Field Recordings — gathered by John and Alan Lomax, starting in the 1930s — at the urging of an instructor who was ...

Near the end of his life, Jelly Roll Morton was bitter and in financial straits, feeling overlooked for his contributions as a jazz trailblazer while others got the credit. In 1938, folklorist Alan ...

At 21, Alan Lomax went to Haiti and recorded its citizens making music - songs about Voodoo, carnival politics, children's games and the first airplanes crisscrossing its Caribbean skies in the late ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue Convocations invites local musicians to submit applications to be part of Jayme Stone and The Lomax Project Community Field Recording Session from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on ...

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, ...