"He was against that homogenized Top 40 world that most people live in[...] it’s all kind of punk rock to me.”
February 8, 2012 11:32 AM   Subscribe

The folklorist and ethnomusicologist was a prodigious collector of traditional music from all over the world and a tireless missionary for that cause. Long before the Internet existed, he envisioned a “global jukebox” to disseminate and analyze the material he had gathered during decades of fieldwork. A decade after his death technology has finally caught up to Lomax’s imagination. Just as he dreamed, his vast archive — some 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, 5,000 photographs and piles of manuscripts, much of it tucked away in forgotten or inaccessible corners — is being digitized so that the collection can be accessed online.
posted by Rory Marinich (3 comments total)

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Crap! I just realized this was a double. :(
posted by Rory Marinich at 11:33 AM on February 8, 2012


No worries, it happens with stuff as good as this. :)
posted by ocherdraco at 11:39 AM on February 8, 2012


ScRAAAAATCH
posted by R. Mutt at 11:40 AM on February 8, 2012 [1 favorite]


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