L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
She directed folk and traditional arts programs at the National Endowment for the Arts and served as head of the anthropology department at what is now Cal State Northridge. Bess Lomax Hawes, a musician and folklorist who tapped into the legacy of her influential family of archivists and became a prominent anthropologist at what is now Cal State Northridge, has died. She was 88.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The remarkable voices, songs and images in the recently released box set Alan Lomax in Haiti are a stunning, delightful treasure, a vivid portrait of a time and place.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The remarkable voices, songs and images in the recently released box set Alan Lomax in Haiti are a stunning, delightful treasure, a vivid portrait of a time and place.
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
... from the massive sound and film archives recorded in 1936 and '37 by American song collector Alan Lomax during his trips to Haiti. The material, kept in the Library of Congress and long unexamined, was the results of an arduous adventure in which the young Lomax lugged cumbersome recording equipment around on buses (he had no private transportation on the visits) even while...
POPSURFING.COM (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Here is the playlist for the world music show I hosted for John on WEFT. Buffy Saint-Marie -- “No No Keshagesh” from Running For The Drum Cyril Pahinui -- “Hawaiian Cowboy” from Night Moon Growling Tiger -- “Senorita Panchita” from Alan Lomax Collection Sampler Cyprus Smith -- “Sambo Caesar (Caribbean)” from Alan Lomax Collection...
Click opera (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
To get totally into the themes on my 2000-recorded, 2001-released Folktronic I should really be an urban ethnomusicologist with a robot assistant like the one you hear in my hour-long audio documentary Fakeways: Manhattan Folk , made just before the album and still the best piece of scene-setting for it. This Alan Lomax figure would probably have to start with the basic facts: Folktronic...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... Catalogue , an 8-CD box set that includes remastered editions of the band's eight studio albums. Alan Lomax in Haiti , a 10-CD box set which collects the folk music of the country. Reissues this week include four remastered Neil Young albums on vinyl ( After the Gold Rush , : Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere , Harvest , and Neil Young ). What new music can you recommend this week?...
breath of life (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
... of this music verges on the mesmerizing. These prison recordings are the work of three men. Alan Lomax and Frederick Oster were committed to documenting folk music. Photographer and film maker Bruce Jackson recorded the Texas songs. The bulk of these songs was recorded in the forties and fifties at the infamous Angola State Prison in Louisiana and at Parchman Prison in Mississippi....
Poetry Blog of 32 Poems Magazine (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
... film, though oddly enough I think that sound recordings of readings can have real force (the way Alan Lomax’s recordings of Southern music from the 1940s and 50s have the power to blow away contemporary recordings with their authenticity and presence). But I believe the written word lasts longer, even if it languishes on a shelf in a used bookstore, and that it generates a dialogue...
cowsarejustfood (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... wail of blind lemon, that hissing otherworldliness of pre-war ghost recordings re-recaptured by alan lomax. when you’ve made as definitive a statement as rancor keeper, the only aesthetic option is to keep moving, keep changing. you stop, you die. says the shark. and trying to follow that thuggish yowl of pure cthulhuan vinyl evil with more of the same would have been the most redundant...
Earvolution (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
A dramatized history of Chess Records, Cadillac Records turns out to be a threadbare and homogenized account of the rise of the label’s most well-known stable of stars: Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter and Etta James. The movie peaks early with its opening scenes ripped from the pages of Can’t Be Satisfied, Robert Gordon’s wonderful biography of Muddy Waters with Alan Lomax...
