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WILLIAM STETSON KENNEDY (October 5, 1916-August 27, 2011) - AN APPRECIATION BY ANNA LOMAX WOOD
Though slight and soft-spoken, Stetson tackled the problems of the South, of his South, with the same spirit -- fearlessly, directly, and with optimism. He did it with his pen, with wit and wile, and through folklore.
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FIRST ALAN LOMAX FELLOWSHIP AWARDED
Judith Cohen received the first Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies from the Library of Congress's Kluge Center. Over the next four months in Washington, D.C., she will prepare for publication Lomax's 1952 fieldwork diary from Spain, a treasure trove of notes, photographs, local festival programs and other ephemera.
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HAITI OUTREACH DOCUMENTED IN NEW SITE
The Green Family Foundation (GFF) and Fastforward have launched a new website, This is Haiti, to document their work in Haiti over the past year. Music and film from Alan Lomax's field trip to Haiti have been used in their outreach to communities throughout the country.
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INTRODUCING GLOBAL JUKEBOX, AN INDEPENDENT MUSIC LABEL FROM THE ALAN LOMAX ARCHIVE
Thousands of hours of international field recordings housed in the Alan Lomax Archive will now reach audiences through Global Jukebox, the Archive's first independent music imprint.
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ALAN LOMAX IN HAITI NOMINATED FOR GRAMMYS
Alan Lomax In Haiti: Recordings For The Library Of Congress, 1936-1937, has been nominated for two Grammys: Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes. Congratulations to the whole Lomax in Haiti team and to Harte Recordings.
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ALAN LOMAX: THE MAN WHO RECORDED THE WORLD
John Szwed has written a fascinating biography of Alan Lomax and provides a compelling account of the era's cultural and political climate. The book features a cast of characters that includes Woody Guthrie, Eleanor Roosevelt, Leadbelly, Carl Sandburg, Pete Seeger, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters, Carl Sagan and Bob Dylan. Szwed has written biographies of Sun Ra and Miles Davis and is professor of music and jazz studies at Columbia University. Available through Viking Adult on December 30, 2010.
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LOMAX VIDEO NOW ON YOUTUBE
ACE has launched an Alan Lomax Archive channel on YouTube. Featuring clips selected from the 400 hours of raw footage shot for Lomax's PBS American Patchwork series, the channel provides an introduction to the diverse cast of musicians, singers, dancers, story-tellers, and one-of-a-kind characters filmed by Alan and crew between 1978 and 1985, as well as an entree into the Video Catalog portion of ACE's Research Center. The first uploads include performances by Hill Country bluesman R.L. Burnside, old-time fiddler Tommy Jarrell, ballads by Sheila Kay Adams and Cas Wallin, former Mississippi Sheik Sam Chatmon, union activist and singer Nimrod Workman, hot jazz bassist Chester Zardis, and the White Eagles Mardi Gras Indians.
THIS WEEK ON "ROOT HOG OR DIE"
Good time, hard time, old time, end time music, hosted by ACE's own Nathan Salsburg. New programs every Tuesday at 10am. This week, Western U.S, music from Mormon trail songs to Bob Wills.
