Alan Lomax (1/31/15-7/19/02)
It’s the anniversary of the death of the musicologist Alan Lomax. He and his father did great recordings which captured various folk musics in the United States and also elsewhere in the world.
It’s weird to look at the history of recording and broadcasting and to see where we stand today, the sorts of music people make, that which they choose to listen to and how they get the recordings. We live in a ‘time of plenty’-
