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Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings

Summary by Open Culture
A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s has been digitized and made available online for free listening. The Association for Cultural Equity, a nonprofit organization founded by Lomax in the 1980s, has posted some 20,000 recordings. “For the first time,” Cultural Equity Executive Director Don Fleming told NPR’s Joel Rose, “everything that we’ve digitized of Alan’…
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Open Culture broke the news in on Thursday, March 19, 2026.
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