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The Alan Lomax Archive has historic eBay sale
Date posted: March 11, 2013
On Saturday, March 9, ACE began an eBay auction of audio and film equipment, records, photograph prints, and other items from our office. In partnership with eBay’s Giving Works program for non-profit organizations, over 300 items will be auctioned in the …
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Wall Street Journal Visits the Association for Cultural Equity
Date posted: February 28, 2013
Last week, Wall Street Journal reporter Tad Hendrickson visited the Association for Cultural Equity at its source, the Hunter College MFA building in Manhattan’s midtown west.
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LOC Accepting Applications for the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies
Date posted: January 29, 2013
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is now accepting applications for the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies. The application deadline is March 31, 2013.
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NPR’s Tell Me More: Alan Lomax Archive “Makes Online Debut”
Date posted: October 25, 2012
In celebration of the Association for Cultural Equity’s decision make available our entire online archive–about 17,000 songs, 400,000 ft of film, 3,000 videotapes, and 5,000 photographs–NPR’s Tell Me More hosts Geoffrey Clarfield, Director of Research and Development for ACE, and Dom Flemons, solo artist and member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops.
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On BBC Radio: Collaboration Between Seamus Ennis and Alan Lomax Yields the First Anthology of Irish Traditional Music
Date posted: October 12, 2012
In 1947, the Irish Folklore Commission and the BBC established a scheme to seek out and record folk music and stories throughout Ireland. In 1951, Alan Lomax followed suite.
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