Alan Lomax's dream comes true!

[ironbut]

I've always been a great admirer of Alan Lomax and all the other less famous folks who searched out and recorded the world's musical history which is woefully under appreciated by popular culture.

He always dreamed of creating the "Global Jukebox" where anyone, anywhere could listen to the audible heritage of the world. Luckily, his heirs have continued to archive Alan's recordings, photos and video.

Just like me, you may not have the time to check out the whole thing right now but it's certainly found a home on my "bucket list".

http://www.culturalequity.org/

The 17,400 sound files can be found by clicking the ACE Online Archive.

[Jim R.]

Steve,

Nice site -- thanks much.

Here's another related story that ran recently in the New Yorker about the machine that Lomax and others used to make the field recordings:

If you want to find it some other way, it's called "Presto!" by Alec Wilkinson, and
it's one page long, on page 25.
http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2012-04-09#folio=025

Also a big fan of Arhooli records.

-- Jim