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It is the result of a unique four-part collaboration between Berea College Special Collections & Archives, University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center, the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, and the Association for Cultural Equity.ДЄudio digitization: Recording Laboratory of the Library of CongressДЄudio preparation speed- and pitch-correction: Nathan Salsburg (Association for Cultural Equity), with support from the National Endowment for the Arts

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Alan in fact cautioned against the strictly preservational impulse, remarking that 'folksongs should not be buried in libraries as they are in Washington and in universities over the country.' The present effort, launched on the centennial of LomaxвЂ™s birth, seeks to realize his vision by providing free and complete access to these historic collections. Lomax) of Bell and Harlan County union activists Jim Garland, Sarah Ogan Gunning, and Aunt Molly Jackson, who had recently relocated north.ДЄlan Lomax felt that a chief result of his and his father's efforts for the Library of Congress was that 'for the first time America could hear itself.' Thus their intentions were not merely archival. Also included here are recordings made in New York City (by Alan Lomax and Mary Barnicle) and Connecticut (by John A. Columbia University professor Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-with whom Alan Lomax had collaborated on field-trips in Florida, Georgia, and the Bahamas in 1935-made an extensive canvas of Bell County in 1938. Several months later, in early 1938, the couple made recordings of enlisted men in the Tenth Infantry Division at Fort Thomas in Northern Kentucky, and of Whitley County native Pete Steele and his family, who were living and working in Hamilton, Ohio. The largest collection was the result of a two-and-a-half-month trip through ten counties made in the autumn of 1937 by Alan and his wife Elizabeth Lyttleton Harold. Lomax and his son Alan in 1933 John returned alone, in 1937, to make recordings of American Folk Song Festival performers at the Boyd County home of Festival organizer Jean Thomas.

The earliest recordings were made in Harlan County by John A.

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Performed by farmers, laborers, coal miners, preachers, housewives, public officials, soldiers, grandparents, adolescents, and itinerant musicians, they present a full spectrum of traditional expressive culture from twelve of Eastern KentuckyвЂ™s mountain counties: ballads and lyric songs, play-party ditties and comic pieces, topical and protest material, fiddle and banjo tunes, hymns and sacred songs, children's games and lullabies, and a variety of spoken lore-religious testimonies, occupational reminiscences, tall tales, jokes, and family and personal narratives.

#ALAN LOMAX RECORDINGS ARCHIVE#

These are documentary sound recordings of rural Kentucky music and lore collected under the auspices of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress between 19. Home > About the Project About the Project

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