The big news this week is that the field recordings made by Alan Lomax are soon to be available to listen to in their entirety. This is, of course, fantastic, and is thanks to the hard work of the good people at the Association for Cultural Equity, at whose website you’ll be able to hear these recordings from March onwards. Making folklore available was one of Lomax’s central motivations (as evinced in his aptly-named article “Making Folklore Available”), so it is good to see digital facilitation and hard work enabling this on such a scale.
Here's a Lomax film of some Sacred Harp, Georgia, 1982:
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