Archive: August 2018 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Stephen Winick; (Year) 2018; (Month) August

King Biscuit Time memorabilia on the walls of the Delta Cultural Center.

Folklife On the Air: A Tribute to Two “Radio Guys”

August 16, 2018

Here at the American Folklife Center, we’ve always had an appreciation for radio. As the home of an archive with a lot of fantastic audio recordings, the “folk archive” has been ripe for use on the radio since its earliest days. John and Alan Lomax, heads of the archive back in the 1930s and 1940s, …

Posted in: Radio, Uncategorized

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

For Our 500th Post, Folklife Today Bids You Good Night (But Not Goodbye!)

August 1, 2018

Posted by: Stephen Winick

Way back when Folklife Today celebrated our 100th post, I highlighted one of Alan Lomax’s collecting triumphs, the disc numbered AFS 100. For this, our 500th post, I thought I’d do a similar story about AFS 500. This disc was also recorded by Alan Lomax, during a field trip to the Bahamas in 1935 which …

Posted in: African American History, Folk Music

Refined by: (Author) Stephen Winick; (Year) 2018; (Month) August