Alan Lomax’s Amazing Music Archive Is Going Online in February, and Will Be Free
If you do n’t know ofAlan Lomax , you should . He single - handedly traveled the man to put down traditional music across America , Europe and the Caribbean . He amassed over 5,000 minute of heavy recordings , and now a team of archivists are posting it online for anyone to listen to . Long before the Internet was a twinkle in Tim Berners - Lee ’s optic , Lomax had the idea of creating a “ world-wide jukebox ” ....