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Folk Music in the American
Century:
An Alan Lomax Tribute
9, 11 & 12 April 2003
The review essay
"Honoring Alan Lomax, Folk-Music Crusader"
by Jon Pareles appeared in The New York
Times, Monday, 14 April 2003
You must register to
read articles, and after approximately one week pay a small fee
Festival
Schedule
To register for the festival and to purchase tickets for the Lomax Tribute
concert, please call Continuing
Education and Public Programs at the CUNY Graduate Center, 212-817-8215. Tickets for the concert can also be
purchased through City Lore,
212-529-1955.
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The portable recording machine, which my
father and I were the first to use, provided the first breakthrough...by
making it possible to record and play back music in remote areas, away from
electrical sources, it gave a voice to the voiceless.... Thus the portable
recorder put neglected cultures and silenced people into the communication
chain.
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So wrote Alan Lomax in Land Where the Blues Began (1993), recalling
his earliest memories of collecting southern folk songs with his father, John
A. Lomax. In 1937, only four years after his first southern field trip,
twenty-two-year-old Alan Lomax was named head of the Archive of American Folk
Song. Over the next six and half decades, until his passing in July of 2002,
his relentless advocacy for "people's music" made him a legend
among folk music scholars and enthusiasts alike. His efforts as a folk song
collector and publisher, music promoter, radio/record/TV producer, and world
music researcher have immeasurably enhanced our understanding and
appreciation of folk music and its place in the modern world.
In honor of Alan Lomax's enormous
contributions to the field of folk music, the Institute for Studies in American Music, the Lomax Archives, City Lore, and the People's
Poetry Gathering will bring together a distinguished group of scholars,
journalists, and performers to assess his role in collecting and promoting
folk music in America and around the world. We invite you to join us for
three days of lectures, discussions, and performances that will explore the
Lomax legacy and the role of traditional music in 20th-century American life.
—Ray Allen
FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION & SCHEDULE UPDATES CONTACT:
ISAM, Brooklyn College
718-951-5655
depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam
CUNY Graduate Center
212-817-8215
web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp
City Lore and People's
Poetry
212-529-1955
www.peoplespoetry.org
Alan Lomax Archive
212-268-4623
www.alan-lomax.com
Festival
Schedule
An Alan Lomax
Tribute is
sponsored by:
The Institute
for Studies in American Music & the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn
College CUNY
Ph.D./D.M.A in Music & Continuing Education and Public Programs at the
Graduate Center, CUNY
City Lore, Poets House, and the People's Poetry Gathering
Alan Lomax Archive/Association for Cultural Equity
An Alan Lomax Tribute is made possible by major grants
from the Baisley Powell Elebash Endowment, The Folk Alliance, and the New
York Council for the Humanities, a state program of the National Endowment
for the Humanities; with additional support from the National Endowment for
the Arts, Odyssey Productions, Inc., the Cerf Foundation, Routledge Press,
and Rounder Records.
Click here for directions to ISAM at Brooklyn
College.
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