Topic: Lomax youtube channel

[blueshome]

http://www.youtube.com/user/AlanLomaxArchive

[frankie]

fantastic - thanks!

[eric]

Hey, that's really cool.

[Pan]

Thank you Phil!

Cheers

Pan

[oddenda]

Hey, y'all - don't forget John Szwed's new book on Alan. If his past book performances are anything to judge by... .

pbl

[Pan]

From the post-war blues list:

The Alan Lomax Archive is pleased to announce the launch of its Global
Jukebox imprint, through which it will make its vast repository of
international field recordings available. Global Jukebox will produce LP,
CD, and digital albums drawn from the thousands of hours of traditional
and vernacular music recordings that Lomax collected around the world from
1933 to 1991.
Partnerships with folklore institutions, indie record labels, university
presses, and the digital distributor IODA will ensure both a grassroots
and global approach to repatriate Lomax’s recordings from around the
world, back to the world. The first Global Jukebox release will be "Wave
the Ocean, Wave the Sea:
Alan Lomax’s 'Southern Journey,'1959–1960" being released digitally on
12/14/2010. There are four more releases coming in its wake, commemorating
the 50th anniversary of Lomax's storied "Southern Journey" in the American
South.

Alan Lomax (1915-2002) is considered America's foremost folklorist,
perhaps best known for making the debut recordings of American legends
like Lead Belly, Muddy Waters, Jelly Roll Morton and Woody Guthrie on
behalf of the Library of Congress. But his independent explorations into
the world's traditional music took him beyond his outstanding recordings
of the American South to song-hunting throughout the British Isles, Spain,
Italy, Morocco, Romania, the Caribbean, and the former Soviet Union, and
won him a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammy
Foundation.

Over the past twenty years the Archive has overseen the release of over a
hundred album, book, and film productions — including the 2006
Grammy-Award winning Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress
Recordings box set. This past year the Lomax Archive produced the 9-CD
Alan Lomax in Haiti 1936-1937 box set, which is part of their Caribbean
Repatriation Program to return copies of the music to its sources. In
addition to the commercial releases, the music is being given to museums
and schools in Haiti and other Caribbean repositories. Lesson plans have
been created from the music and local community welfare organizations have
taken the music directly to the temporary camps in Haiti to offer some
level of comfort and healing. Large groups at the camps have heard and
sung along to the recordings — the sounds of their traditions and past.

Global Jukebox is the Archive’s first independent imprint. Its inaugural
releases are five albums commemorating the 50th anniversary of Lomax's
storied "Southern Journey" in the American South — the first-ever stereo
recordings made of traditional music in the field. Albums forthcoming in
2011 include, Lomax’s debut recordings of bluesman Mississippi Fred
McDowell; a companion album to the new John Szwed biography Alan Lomax:
The Man Who Recorded the World; a hardback book and two-CD set dedicated
to Alan’s trip through Asturias, Spain — “the land at the end of
everything”; and the launch of a series of artist curated compilations,
for which guest musicians “Play the Global Jukebox,” and include an
exclusive recording of their own.

Alan Lomax's career was dedicated to the cause of "cultural equity": the
fundamental right of every culture to express and develop its distinctive
heritage of songs, dances, and stories. The launch of Global Jukebox is an
exciting continuation of Lomax's efforts to make sonic space for the
world's musical traditions.

http://culturalequity.org/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alan-Lomax/137779512793
http://twitter.com/CulturalEquity
http://www.youtube.com/user/AlanLomaxArchive

Cheers

Pan

[jharris]

I have a question maybe someone here could answer. I recently bought the The Land Where The Blues Began DVD but I was wondering if any of these performances have been issued on album or CD? I'm talking about the 1978 recordings he made with Worth Long and John Bishop. According to the notes they recorded thirty-plus hours of material. It seems that a good chunk of Lomax's other recordings have been issued on CD so you would think this 1978 material would have been issued somewhere.

[Stumblin]

Fantastic. Thanks