Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center

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The Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center is a major archival repository of field recordings, photographs, films, and documentation of traditional music and oral culture gathered by folklorist Alan Lomax from around the world.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf archival collection
folklore archive
sound recording collection
accessPolicy available to researchers
associatedWith American Folklife Center
Association for Cultural Equity
Library of Congress
collector Alan Lomax
country United States
digitalAvailability partially digitized
geographicCoverage Africa
Asia
Caribbean
Caribbean islands
Eastern Europe
Europe
Ireland
Italy
Scotland
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
hasPart correspondence
field recordings
films
manuscripts
photographic negatives
photographs
research notes
transcriptions
video recordings
language English
multiple languages
locatedIn Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
namedAfter Alan Lomax
partOf American Folklife Center
repositoryType federal institution
subject ballads
blues
dance traditions
ethnomusicology
folk song
folklore
oral tradition
sacred music
spirituals
traditional music
work songs
temporalCoverage 20th century

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Alan Lomax hasCollection Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center
Freedom (Beyoncé song) usesSampling “Collection Speech/Unidentified Lining Hymn” from Alan Lomax recordings
subject linked to: Freedom
linked to: Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center
Archive of American Folk Song partOf American Folklife Center
linked to: Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center
The Land Where the Blues Began associatedWith Library of Congress field recordings
linked to: Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center