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Thu, Dec 17, 2009 -- 10:00 AM
Alan Lomax in Haiti
In 1936, at the behest of writer Zora Neale
Hurston, renowned ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax took a
trip Haiti to document the music and rituals of everyday
Haitians. Thanks to cutting edge technology, these rare
recordings have been newly restored and released for the
first time by a San Francisco record company in
conjunction with the Library of Congress and the Lomax
estate. We talk to the curator of the new boxed set as
well as Alan Lomax's daughter, Anna Lomax Wood.
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Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
- Anna Lomax Wood, daughter of Alan Lomax, executive director of the Association for Cultural Equity and a producer of the "Alan Lomax in Haiti" box set
- David Katznelson, president of San Francisco-based Birdman Records and Harte Recordings, a producer of the "Alan Lomax in Haiti" box set and former A&R vice president at Warner Bros. Records
- Gage Averill, curator of the "Alan Lomax in Haiti" box set, dean of the University of Toronto, Mississauga, former chair of NYU's Department of Music and president-elect of the Society for Ethnomusicology
- Kimberly Green, president of the Green Family Foundation
- Max Blanchet, vice chair of the Lambi Fund of Haiti, former president of the U.S. Board of Fonkoze and local Haitian-American activist
More info:
- About Alan Lomax's trip, the making of the box set and more : at TheHaitiBox.Blogspot.com
- The Association for Cultural Equity : at CulturalEquity.org
- The "Alan Lomax in Haiti" box set : at HarteRecordings.com
