Alan Lomax and the Search for the Origins of Music(tabletmag.com)
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Alan Lomax and the Search for the Origins of Music
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Gonna take this opportunity to plug one of my favorite albums of recent years, Jayme Stone's Lomax Project https://open.spotify.com/album/0nfUQ0fq6JXOv8EyUGRgUY?si=ggw...
It's a collection of professionally arranged renditions of songs from Alan Lomax's archive. Brilliant project and album.
It's a collection of professionally arranged renditions of songs from Alan Lomax's archive. Brilliant project and album.
Apple Music link: https://music.apple.com/us/album/jayme-stones-lomax-project/...
Weird! I’d never heard of Alan Lomax until yesterday while reading Ani DiFranco’s memoir, where she waxes poetical about his influence in bringing great voices forward and incredible dedication to recording a wonderfully diverse and inclusive set of musicians for decades.
In my view, John Lomax's project is more interesting: these old American folk songs provide a geneology of American myth, which is something with cultural import today. Ethnomusicology is fascinating from an abstract perspective (and interesting how they were mostly Jews, makes me more sympathetic as I am myself), but seems a little too distant, trying to solve a problem that might be a little too big...