Chuck Darwin

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.
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/alan-lomaxs-massive-music-archive-is-online-20000-recordings.html

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

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.

Open Culture
Mar 20 at 1:53amWeb
Show threadJoan Combs Durso4d ago
@cdarwin i got to see him talk about the Global Jukebox at a conference. It was so amazing. It’s being rebuilt here: https://www.culturalequity.org/research/gjb/history-of-the-global-jukebox.
History of the Global Jukebox | Association for Cultural Equity

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