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 ” . As well as those M of hours of legal transcription , he also collect 400,000 feet of film , 3,000 videotapes , and 5,000 photographs . While snippets of the material have been avilable for a while , the New York Timesreports that about 17,000 tracks are work to be usable freefor streaming onlineby the end of February .
In fact , theNYT articleis deserving a read in full , particularly the parts that discourse Lomax ’s early ideas or using computer to analyze and categorize law of similarity between vocal . speech sound intimate ? [ New York Times ]
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