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REPATRIATION IN COMO, MISSISSIPPI
In 1959 and again in 1978, Alan Lomax visited the Hill Country town of Como, Mississippi. On Friday, February 3, a celebration will be held at the Emily Jones Pointer Library in Como to mark the repatriation of the recordings, photographs, and videos collected by Lomax during those visits. The event will include performances by Sharde Thomas and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band, The Como Mamas and Glen Faulkner, and ACE will be represented by Alan Lomax's nephew, John Lomax III.
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NEW RELEASE FROM GLOBAL JUKEBOX: THE ALAN LOMAX COLLECTION FROM THE AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER
The Alan Lomax Collection from the American Folklife Center will be released on January 31, 2012. This collection, compiled by Don Fleming, Executive Director of the Alan Lomax Archive, highlights 16 songs from Lomax's U.S andinternational field-recording collections.
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ALAN LOMAX: THE MAN WHO RECORDED THE WORLD NOW IN PAPERBACK
John Szwed's fascinating biography of Alan Lomax is now available in paperback. The book features a cast of characters that includes Woody Guthrie, Eleanor Roosevelt, Leadbelly, Carl Sandburg, Pete Seeger, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters, Carl Sagan and Bob Dylan. Szwed has written biographies of Sun Ra and Miles Davis and is professor of music and jazz studies at Columbia University. Available through Viking Adult.
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WILLIAM STETSON KENNEDY (October 5, 1916-August 27, 2011) - AN APPRECIATION BY ANNA LOMAX WOOD
Though slight and soft-spoken, Stetson tackled the problems of the South, of his South, with the same spirit -- fearlessly, directly, and with optimism. He did it with his pen, with wit and wile, and through folklore.
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FIRST ALAN LOMAX FELLOWSHIP AWARDED
Judith Cohen received the first Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies from the Library of Congress's Kluge Center. Over the next four months in Washington, D.C., she will prepare for publication Lomax's 1952 fieldwork diary from Spain, a treasure trove of notes, photographs, local festival programs and other ephemera.
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LOMAX VIDEO ON YOUTUBE
ACE has launched an Alan Lomax Archive channel on YouTube. Featuring clips selected from the 400 hours of raw footage shot for Lomax's PBS American Patchwork series, the channel provides an introduction to the diverse cast of musicians, singers, dancers, story-tellers, and one-of-a-kind characters filmed by Alan and crew between 1978 and 1985, as well as an entree into the Video Catalog portion of ACE's Research Center. The first uploads include performances by Hill Country bluesman R.L. Burnside, old-time fiddler Tommy Jarrell, ballads by Sheila Kay Adams and Cas Wallin, former Mississippi Sheik Sam Chatmon, union activist and singer Nimrod Workman, hot jazz bassist Chester Zardis, and the White Eagles Mardi Gras Indians.
THIS WEEK ON "ROOT HOG OR DIE"
Good time, hard time, old time, end time music, hosted by ACE's own Nathan Salsburg. New programs every Tuesday at 10am. This week, Western U.S, music from Mormon trail songs to Bob Wills.
