Pour répondre aux trouvailles de Bowie dans un vide grenier () ; en particulier de vinyls Radio France / Ocora d'enregistrements de musiques de monde ; voici l'ouverture des archives d'Alan Lomax
en résumé (merci wiki) :
"Alan Lomax (1915 - 2002) est un très célèbre ethnomusicologue, folkloriste, musicologue et collecteur de musiques américain, probablement le plus célèbre dans le public des non-spécialistes. Il a surtout collecté la musique des États-Unis et des Caraïbes, et des nations européennes qui ont influencé cette musique, mais il a travaillé dans le monde entier. Il eut aussi une carrière d'interprète et de producteur, notamment pour Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) et Woody Guthrie.
Il eut probablement la plus longue et la plus importante carrière de collecteur de musiques, en quantité comme en qualité, puisqu'il fit ses premiers enregistrements en 1933, en compagnie de son père, et ses derniers en 1985, soit un travail de 52 ans."Autant vous dire que la mise à disposition
gratuite de centaines d'enregistrements est un véritable trésor pour toute personne souhaitant un peu mieux connaître les origines des musiques actuelles
Quelques exemples :
Texas Gladden and Hobart Smith 1946
"In 1946 Alan Lomax invited the prolific ballad singer Texas Gladden, of Saltville, Virginia, and her brother, multi-instrumentalist Hobart Smith, to perform with Andrew Rowan Summers and Jean Ritchie at Columbia University’s MacMillan Theater as part of a festival held by the university. The concert recordings of the two are included here. Lomax interviewed Gladden and Smith extensively during their stay in New York and also introduced them to Moses Asch, who issued an album of four of their recordings on his Disc label (later Folkways), with cover art by painter Ben Shahn. Gladden returned home to Saltville with the news that she had met Lead Belly. “Within a few years,” noted John Cohen, “Smith’s guitar picking style was heard in New York’s Washington Square folk music scene, where ‘Railroad Bill’ was especially imitated.”
New York Blues Interviews 1947"Caribbean 1962
"In 1967, while on vacation in the Dominican Republic and Saint Eustatius, Alan Lomax, assisted by Joan Halifax, made an hour and a quarter of recordings of work songs, carols, sea shanties, whaling songs, calypso, ballads, and an excerpt from a roving theater group doing a play about David and Goliath to a musical background of drumming. Documentation on these recordings is scanty."Romania 1964
"These few recordings were made in the village of Dragus in Transylvania, where, in 1929, the Romanian ethnomusicologist Constantin Brailoiu had made a study of funeral laments. Evidently guided by the advice of Mihai Pop at the Institutul de Etnografie si Folclor in Bucharest, Alan Lomax visited Dragus after his August 1964 trip to the Soviet Union. He recorded children and a few older women singing dance songs, love songs, and lullabies."mais aussi leNewport Folk Festival 1966
Dominican Republic and Saint Eustatius 1967, Morocco 1967, miscellaneous Recordings 1950-1990....
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