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.
- More: About Alan Lomax’s trip, the making of the box set and more – at TheHaitiBox.Blogspot.com
- More: The “Alan Lomax in Haiti” box set – at HarteRecordings.com
- More: The Association for Cultural Equity – at CulturalEquity.org