Alan Lomax Collection [collection]

Title

Alan Lomax Collection [collection]

Date Created

Span: 1930-1966

Language

English

Form

collection

Physical Description

120 ft.

Repository

American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Abstract

The Alan Lomax Collection comprises the unparalleled ethnographic documentation collected by the legendary folklorist Lomax (1915-2002) over a period of sixty years and joins the material Alan Lomax collected during the 1930s and early 1940s for the Library's Archive of American Folk Song. Included in the collection are sound recordings of traditional singers, instrumentalists, and storytellers made by Lomax during numerous field trips to the American South, the Caribbean, Britain, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, and Italy; original video footage, shot in the South and Southwest, Washington, D.C., and New York City, that was used as the basis of Lomax's American Patchwork television series, as well as videotapes of all the programs in the series; 16mm footage of performances by Howling Wolf, Son House, and others during the Newport Folk Festival in 1966; videotape of folk dance performances; and work elements and originals of numerous films made by Lomax.

Contents Note

Sound recordings (5,000 hours), motion pictures (400,000 feet), videotapes (2,450), books/journals (2,000), photographs, correspondence, field notes, research files, program scripts, indexes, and book and article manuscripts.

 notes

American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Contact librarian at http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-folklife.html

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/lomax/

Copyright Information

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html

Subjects

Folk Music

Dance

Lomax, Alan

Updated

08-13-2008