The archive utilizes the researcher’s innovative cantometrics system, which breaks down music by analyzing qualities like tonal blend, melodic range and social organization of vocal parts. Lomax first conceptualized the project in the 1980s, aiming to categorize songs and dances with corresponding anthropological data. African Arabs,” which is then broken down into Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt “Songs in Tunisia” arranges music into headings like “Wedding Songs” and “Love Song.” For the first time, Cultural Equity Executive Director Don Fleming told NPR’s Joel Rose this week, everything that we’ve digitized of Alan’s field recording trips are online, on our Web site. Includes unlimited streaming of Lost Train Blues: John & Alan Lomax and the Early Folk Music Collections at the Library of Congress via the free Bandcamp app, plus. The Association for Cultural Equity, a nonprofit organization founded by Lomax in the 1980s, has posted some 17,000 recordings.

For example, clicking on “Tunisia” brings up a list for “Western Asia/Mediterranean Basin/N. A 12' vinyl collection of mostly previously unissued issued archival field recordings made by John and Alan Lomax and other important early folklorists for the Library of Congress. Upon visiting The Global Jukebox, users can navigate a massive world map categorized by region, culture and function. The free site features 6,000 digitized songs from over 1,000 cultures, including recordings from Lomax’s own collection. The first vinyl release dedicated entirely to this phenomenal recording session. Now the organization he founded, the Association for Cultural Equity, is aiming to continue his research with a newly established online database, The Global Jukebox, The New York Times reports. The first ever recordings of Fred McDowell Recorded by Alan Lomax in 1959. Before his 2002 death, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax spent decades recording and archiving the world’s traditional music.

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