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The Alan Lomax Collection gathers together the American, European, and Caribbean field recordings, world music compilations, and ballad operas of writer, folklorist, and ethnomusicologist .
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The Classic Louisiana Recordings
A series devoted to the recordings by Alan Lomax and John Lomax in Louisiana in the 1930s and the 1980s.
Caribbean Voyage
Alan Lomax’s legendary 1962 recordings of the rich and many-stranded musical traditions of the Lesser Antilles and eastern Caribbean: work songs, pass-play and story songs, calypso, East Indian cha...
Italian Treasury
In 1953, Alan Lomax and Diego Carpitella set out on a yearlong voyage of discovery that resulted in an exhaustive documentation of Italian folk music.
Deep River Of Song
African-American field recordings made for the Library of Congress from 1933 to 1946, a transformative period when black singers of the South and the Caribbean created a new musical language and th...
Southern Journey
A voyage of the road and the mind, pioneering the use of stereo recording in the field, Alan Lomax’s “Southern Journey“ is a 12-volume LP series of original recordings evoking the musical world of ...
The Concert And Radio Series
A series devoted to live concerts and radio programs produced by Alan Lomax at Town Hall and Carnegie Hall, and on CBS and the BBC.
The Spanish Recordings
Alan Lomax made these historic recordings in 1952 while travelling for months through Spanish villages, under formidable physical and political circumstances, during the Franco regime.
The Alan Lomax Collection - Portraits
Throughout his career, Alan Lomax worked extensively with some of the greatest artists in folk music, many of whom he was the first to record. The “Portraits” series focuses in depth on these brill...