Calling all music fans (and food fans): Tucson Meet Yourself is coming up this weekend, on October 12-14! This should be an especially fun year for the festival, since it will overlap with the Tucson Zombie Walk and Pride in the Desert. Come meet everyone who "keeps Tucson weird" (as the bumper sticker goes), including many Pima County employees, who will mostly be gathered in the area near the sculpture in front of Main Library downtown. The Library staff will be out in force, and you may even get a chance to scope out the infamous Bookbike!
Showing posts with label folklore. Show all posts
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Monday, October 8, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
A global jukebox
On Sunday, the NYT ran a great piece on Alan Lomax, perhaps America’s most popularly known ethnomusicologist and collector of traditional music in the US. The article provides a brief overview of his life and contributions now that the Global Jukebox label will offer free online streaming of 17,000 tracks of his collection to commemorate his 97th birthday.
If you prefer to listen to music in your stereo, check out the CDs that PCPL has from his collection in our catalog. We also carry Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World, a great biography published in 2010 by John Szwed.
I will post on specific CD titles from Lomax in the future. Here I just want to mention that in their inception folklore, and afterwards ethnomusicology did not have an impulse to collect. Their main focus was to document traditional cultural expressions. Lomax had the vision not only to use recording technology to preserve (like his father before him) but to disseminate them, a move that would have tremendous influence in popular music.
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