Alan Lomax (1915-2002) earned a singular place for himself in American culture and arts. Building on the pioneering work of his father, John, whom he accompanied on folk-song recording tours of the American South and Southwest in the 1930s and 1940s, Alan set out after World War II to do nothing less than draw the folk music map of the world. | Read the synopsis »

FOLKLIFE AND FIELD RECORDING

Michael Taft, head of the Archive of Folk Culture at the American Folklife Center, talks about the state of folklife collecting, the challenges of archiving "born digital" artifacts and milestones in field recording. » 

ALAN LOMAX RADIO

In 1997, Rounder Records introduced The Alan Lomax Collection, a multi-CD set spanning the folklorist's six decades of recording in the U.S., Haiti, the Caribbean and Europe. Listen to a streaming radio sampler from Rounder's anthology. »