Library Acquires Alan Lomax Collection

Library Acquires Alan Lomax Collection: "The American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress has acquired the Alan Lomax Collection, which comprises the unparalleled ethnographic documentation collected by the legendary folklorist over a period of 70 years... Included in the collection are sound recordings of traditional singers, instrumentalists and storytellers made by Lomax during numerous field trips to the American South, the Caribbean, Britain, Scotland, Ireland, Spain and Italy; original video footage, shot in the southern and southwestern United States, Washington, D.C., and New York City, that was used as the basis of Lomax's "Patchwork" television series."