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Alan Lomax visits New Orleans

 
 

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From the PBS series: "American Patchwork"

Famed folklorist and ethnomusicologist visited New Orleans in his later years and took this video snapshot of New Orleans circa 1990.

Hard to believe, but that's twenty-five years ago already (this is written in 2015)

Great survey of the city's vast musical culture: jazz funerals, Mardi Gras Indians, street parades and a lot more.

More about Alan Lomax from Wikipedia.org

Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American field collector of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. During the New Deal, with his father, folklorist and collector John A. Lomax and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs.



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