The Lomax Legacy:
Folklore in a Globalizing Century
 
January 18th -- 20th, 2006
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
 
A Symposium Presentation of The American Folklife Center and The Association
forCultural Equity, New York
 
The American Folklife Center, in cooperation with the Association for
Cultural Equity, will present a symposium, “The Lomax Legacy: Folklore in a
Globalizing Century,” from January 18 to 20, 2006, at the Library of
Congress. For two days, a diverse group of scholars, cultural workers, and
media producers will gather to reflect on the life work of the preeminent
song collector, musical anthropologist, and cultural activist Alan Lomax
(1915-2002). The symposium will consist of panel presentations, film
screenings, and an evening concert.
Participants will discuss their own research, publications, productions and
advocacy work in light of Lomax’s pioneering initiatives in these same areas.

The gathering highlights the AFC’s 2004 acquisition of the Alan Lomax
Collection, his legacy of recordings, research and writing—-a multimedia
archive of musical performances from around the world.
 
The two-day event will be open to the public, free of charge, but seating is
limited and reservations are required. Reservations for no more than two
seats per registrant will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. 
For general information, registration, program details and locations of
events, please visit
 
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/lomax/lomaxlegacy.html 
 
Visit http://www.loc.gov/folklife/lomax for additional details on the
collection.
 
Alan Lomax began his career at the Library of Congress’ Archive of American
Folk Song (the predecessor to the American Folklife Center) in 1933. Between
1933 and 1942, Alan Lomax and his father, folklorist John A. Lomax, helped
develop the Library of Congress’ Archive of American Folksong into a major
repository of traditional music. Many of the early recordings held by the
Center are the products of their celebrated field trips to document folk
music and oral history across much of the United States and Alan Lomax's
subsequent trips to the Caribbean and Europe.
 
After he left the Library of Congress in 1942, Alan Lomax continued his work
to document, analyze and present the traditional music, dance and narratives
of cultural communities around the world.  He expanded the scope of his work
to include ethnomusicological and anthropological research and teaching,
book publishing for scholarly and popular audiences, and commercial record,
radio and film production.  He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards,
including the 1980 National Book Critics Circle award for “The Land Where
the Blues Began,” the National Medal of the Arts in 1986, a “Living Legend”
award from the Library of Congress in 2000 and a Grammy in 2002 for his
lifelong contributions to music.
 
Media contacts: Trish Taylor Shuman (202) 707-1940; Joanne Rasi (202) 707-1744
Public contact: (202) 707-5510
Web site: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/

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