Collection Alan Lomax Collection

Alan Lomax retired in 1996 and died in 2002. In 2004, through the generous donation of anonymous donors, the Folklore Center of the Library of Congress got an Alan Lomax collection containing all the material collected by Lomax after leaving the library. Through this acquisition in 1942, the American Fork Life Center can unite the lives of this special collector and ethnographic magazine scholar. Throughout his life, Alan Romax was awarded numerous awards and awards, including art national medals for his book "Blue Land Land", the National Book Critic Award, and in 2002 his life-long music We received a special Grammy award for contribution to. And "Life Legend" award from Congress library.

In March 2004, the American Folklore Center of the Library of Congress acquired the Alan Romax Collection, which includes unparalleled ethnographic journal literature collected by legendary folkloreists over 60 years. Acquisition is made possible by the cooperation agreement between the American Fork Life Center (AFC) and the Cultural Equality Association and the generosity of anonymous donors. From the 1930s to the early 1940s, the Alan Lomax Collection joined the American Folklore Archives data collection at the Alan Lomax library and will offer that purchase to Alan Lomax for 70 years under one roof of the Congress library. I work. I found a permanent house

The Alan Lomax Collection (AFC 2004/004) contains approximately 650 feet of manuscript, 6,400 recordings, 5,500 graphic images, and 6,000 dynamics materials created and collected by Alan Lomax and others' work It is. Images recording songs, music, dance and body movements from many cultures. The series features Lomax live recordings and photographs from 1930 to 2004 in the Bahamas, the Caribbean, the UK, France, Georgia, Haiti, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Spain, the USA and Wales includes. Many indexes of these materials are available upon request. Many documents are also available online through the Culture Equality Online Archives Association and the Alan Lomax YouTube channel.