Alan Lomax believed that the culture of poor Americans was important and worthy of saving. So he spent decades traveling the American South and recording obscure musicians on their front porches, in c...Show More
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mm recommended:Feb 15th, 2021
One of the reasons why we have records of the sounds of everyday people in the American South and their vast diversity of folk music is because of this guy and his unwavering mission to capture wisdom of the people.
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epekilis recommended:Feb 4th, 2021
Wisdom comes from the voices of ordinary people. One of the public works projects during the Great Depression was cultural anthropology by the Library of Congress. Allen Lomax travelled the obscure byways to farms and remote communities to collect the sounds of diverse ordinary people to represent ...Show More
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