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The Archive of American Folk Song of the Library of Congress contains songs collected in 33 states of the Union and certain parts of the West Indies, The Bahamas, and Haiti. As Curator and Assistant in Charge of the Folk Song Collection John and Alan Lomax supervised and worked with many other folklorists, musicologists, and composers, amateur ...
Mississippi John Hurt: Anthology of American Folk Music and Today! Blind Lemon Jefferson: "That Black Snake Moan/Matchbox Blues" and Anthology of American Folk Music; Blind Willie Johnson: Anthology of American Folk Music, "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" and Murmurs of Earth (also featuring "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground")
The Music Division's director Carl Engel announced in April 1928 that the Library of Congress would appoint the folk song collector Robert Winslow Gordon as the archive's first director and explained the archive's scope as “a national collection of folk song … to ensure their preservation and to recognize the value of the folk heritage.” [1] In the Library of Congress’ annual report ...
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) 799,000 Public domain music scores (720,000) and recordings (79,000), including some contemporary composers. International Music Score Library Project: Inventions of Note: popular music, technology: 50 Sheet music for popular songs and piano compositions, mostly 1890–1920. Lewis Music Library ...
The production music market is dominated by libraries affiliated with the large record and publishing companies: Universal Music Publishing Group library music has the music libraries of Chappell Recording Music Library, Bruton, Atmosphere, and others such as Killer Tracks; Concord Music owns Imagem Production Music, formerly Boosey & Hawkes Production Music, which includes the Cavendish ...
Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax (Rounder Records, 8 CDs boxed set) won in two categories at the 48th annual Grammy Awards ceremony held on February 8, 2006 [60] Alan Lomax in Haiti: Recordings For The Library Of Congress, 1936–1937, issued by Harte Records and made with the support and major ...
He is best known for his 2011 music video, "Ching Chong: Asians in the Library Song" and for his role as Ted in the web series Video Game High School. In 2017, he and YouTuber Meghan Camarena co-hosted the video game themed variety show Polaris Primetime, which was created as part of Disney's "D|XP" programming block on Disney XD.
West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song. West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song was a major four-month exhibition at the British Library in London – the first of its kind in the UK to explore in detail the cultural history of the region, through literature, artefacts, art, music and performance [1] – which ran from 16 October 2015 to 16 February 2016.