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 ...

Renowned ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax spent a lifetime archiving the sounds of the world’s rich folk traditions and today, vast amounts of his archival work are finally available everywhere. According ...

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 ...

Alan Lomax believed every culture has a "right … to equal time on the air and equal time in the classroom." As director of the Library of Congress, Archive of American Folk-Song and as a radio and ...

Before his 2002 death, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax spent decades recording and archiving the world’s traditional music. Now the organization he founded, the Association for Cultural Equity, is aiming ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early in his career, clarinetist Andy Biskin worked as an assistant to the folklorist Alan Lomax. Biskin's new album features new settings of... Andy Biskin And 16 Tons Revisit 'Songs From The Alan ...

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 ...