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Posted by: Stephen Winick
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to apply for a post-doctoral fellowship for advanced research based on the Alan Lomax Collection. The Lovelace Fellowship, established in 2015 for the study of the Alan Lomax Collection, pays tribute to the 60-year friendship between philanthropist Jon B. Lovelace and James …
Posted in: Alan Lomax
Posted by: Stephanie Hall
This post is also featured on the Library of Congress Blog as “World War I: ‘Trench Blues’ — An African American Song of the War.” Head over there to find more WWI stories from the Library’s collections honoring the centennial (2017-2018). There is another Folklife Today post about an African American World War I song …
Posted in: African Americans, Alan Lomax, Folksong, World War I
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Note: this is the first in a series of posts about a classic item from the AFC archive, “The Dodger.” [See the first post here.] [See the second post here.][See the third post here.] Second note: we’ve also created a podcast version of these stories. Download our “Dodger” podcast here! As Election Day draws near, …
Posted in: Aaron Copland, Alan Lomax, Charles Lafayette Todd, Charles Seeger, Dodger, Folk Music, Folklorists, Folksong, John Lomax, Pete Seeger, Robert Sonkin, Sidney Robertson Cowell, U.S. Congress, Woody Guthrie
Posted by: Stephen Winick
The following post is part of a series of blog posts about the 40th Anniversary Year of the American Folklife Center. Visit this link to see them all! This year the Library’s American Folklife Center (AFC) turns 40. Detailed histories of AFC are available elsewhere [1], so we thought we’d do something different in this …
Posted in: AFC 40th Anniversary, AFC Awards, AFC Events, AFC History, Alan Jabbour, Alan Lomax, Archival Practice, Folklorists, Internship program, Material Culture, Oral History, U.S. Congress
Posted by: Stephen Winick
The following guest post by Jennifer Cutting is part of a series of blog posts about the 40th Anniversary Year of the American Folklife Center. Visit this link to see them all! The American Folklife Center (AFC) is pleased to announce the availability online of four titles from our historic series of record albums, Folk …
Posted in: AFC 40th Anniversary, AFC Events, AFC History, African Americans, Alan Jabbour, Alan Lomax, Cowboys, Duncan Emrich, ethnomusicologists, Folk Music, Folklorists, Folksong, John Lomax, John Wesley Work III, Marshall W. Stearns, Native American History, Willard Rhodes
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Note: This post is part of series of blog posts celebrating the centennial of Alan Lomax’s birth, and also part of another series celebrating the 40th anniversary of AFC! In a previous blog post, Jennifer Cutting and I explained the background to our Lomax Challenge showcase at last year’s Folk Alliance meeting. (We also presented the …
Posted in: AFC 40th Anniversary, Alan Lomax, Archive Challenge, Folk Music, Folklorists, Folksong
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Note: This post is part of series of blog posts celebrating the centennial of Alan Lomax’s birth, and also part of another series celebrating the 40th anniversary of AFC! In my last blog post, Jennifer Cutting and I explained the background to our Lomax Challenge showcase at last year’s Folk Alliance meeting. (We also presented the …
Posted in: AFC 40th Anniversary, Alan Lomax, Archive Challenge, John Lomax
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Note: This post was co-written with AFC Folklife Specialist Jennifer Cutting. It is part of series of blog posts celebrating the centennial of Alan Lomax’s birth, and also part of another series celebrating the 40th anniversary of AFC! Part Two of this series of posts is now available, featuring videos of contemporary artists performing French …
Posted in: AFC 40th Anniversary, AFC Events, AFC History, Alan Lomax, Archive Challenge, Folk Music, Folksong, John Lomax, Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter), Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie