This is FRESH AIR. Early in his career, clarinetist Andy Biskin worked as an assistant to the folklorist Alan Lomax. Biskin's new album features new settings of songs drawn from Lomax's massive ...

The labyrinth of the Alan Lomax Collection at the Library of Congress—housed within the American Folklife Center, a facility whose tireless spokesperson Archie Green was directly inspired by Lomax’s ...

The lifework of the late legendary American folklorist Alan Lomax has been acquired by the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. “I think it’s the jewel in the crown of the collections ...

Great news for music fans: priceless recordings made by folklorist Alan Lomax are being digitised and around 17,000 music tracks will be available for free streaming by the end of February. Lomax, the ...

Folk-music collector, ethnographer, and archivist Alan Lomax, who died in 2002, was born 100 years ago in 1915. From 1937 to 1942, he was assistant in charge of the Archive of Folk Culture at the ...

Alan Lomax single-handedly (and some would say, heavy-handedly) saved the folk music from oblivion. Son of John Lomax, Alan travelled across the US and around the world recording folk musicians in ...

Alan Lomax's (1915-2002) field recordings and research heightened our awareness of folk music, i.e. Americana. He reintroduced many of us to our cultural origins where other musical genres received ...

Maybe you're not the type of American comfortable shouting "USA...USA...USA!" at sporting events. You might though, reconsider the prohibition after listening to ...