Collection Alan Lomax Collection

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 materials are also available online from the Culture Equality Online Archive Association and the Alan Lomax YouTube channel.

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 bring together this wonderful collector and the lives of ethnographic magazine scholars. Throughout his life, Alan Romax was involved in the arts national medal for his book "Land of Blue Land", the Critics Award of the National Book, and in 2002 for his lifetime contribution to music I won a special Grammy award. And "Life Legend" award from Congress library.