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The Archive of American Folk Song of the Library of Congress contains songs collected in thirty-three states of the Union and certain parts of the West Indies, the Bahamas, and Haiti.
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These researchers included Robert W. Gordon, founder of the Archive of American Folk Song, and John and Alan Lomax ; Alan Lomax was the most prominent of several folk song collectors who helped to inspire the 20th century roots revival of American folk culture.
During the New Deal, with his father, famed folklorist and collector John A. Lomax and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs.
From 1937 to 1942, Lomax was Assistant in Charge of the Archive of Folk Song of the Library of Congress to which he and his father and numerous collaborators contributed more than ten thousand field recordings.
Robert Winslow Gordon, founding head of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, recorded sailors singing shanties in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1920s.
These early efforts foreshadowed what would become Lomax ’ s greatest achievement, the collection of more than ten thousand recordings for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.
In preparation he traveled to Washington to review the holdings in the Archive of American Folk Song of the Library of Congress.
After the departure of Robert Gordon from the Library in 1934, John A. Lomax was named Honorary Consultant and Curator of the Archive of American Folk Song, a title he held until his death in 1948.
In his 1942 introduction to the multi-volume " Checklist of Recorded Folk Song in the Library of Congress ", Harold Spivacke, Chief of the Library of Congress's Division of Music, wrote: Many hard-working and expert folklorists cooperated in the accumulation of this material, but in the main the development of the Archive of American Folk Song represents the work of two men, John and Alan Lomax.
Library Of Congress Music Division: Checklist of Recorded Songs in the English Language in the Archive of American Folk Song to July, 1940 ( 3 Volume Set ) Library of Congress ( Paperback, March 1, 1942 ) ASIN: B0017HYX4E
While in Washington D. C. Crawford Seeger worked closely with John and Alan Lomax at the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress to preserve and teach American folk music.
* Archive footage of Ted Shawn performing " Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen " from Four Dances Based on American Folk Music in 1938 at Jacob's Pillow
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*" Hinky Dinky Parleyvoo " & " Mademoiselle from Armentieres " from The Robert W. Gordon " Inferno " Collection in the Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress @ horntip. com
It was Constantin Brăiloiu, director of the National Archive of Folk Music, who proposed that the word " doina " be used to described all these songs.
Following Work's collection Negro Folk Songs, the bulk of which was recorded at Fort Valley, he and two colleagues from Fisk University, Charles S. Johnson, head of the department of sociology ( later, in October 1946, chosen as the university's first black president ), and Lewis Jones, professor of sociology, collaborated with the Archive of American Folk Song on the Library of Congress / Fisk University Mississippi Delta Collection ( AFC 1941 / 002 ).
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