Radio Programs and Ballad Operas | Discussions, Lectures, and Interviews
Performance Style and Culture
This collection of over 200 hours of conversations with artists and colleagues and interviews and speeches given by Alan Lomax dates from the 1960s through the 1990s. Each segment is summarized in the catalog and can be heard in a two-minute long sample.
Conrad Arensberg, Victor Grauer, George Condominas, Ted Schwartz, Gilbert Rouget, George Peter Murdock, Anne Chapman, Stanley Oudy, Judith Shapiro, Kal Muller, Irmgard Bartinieff, Allison Jablonko, Bess Lomax Hawes, Pierre Gaisseau, Ralph Solecki, Edwin Erickson, Jacques Gorguechon, Carol White, Mildred Antonelli, Morton Klass, Edith Trager Johnson, Juanita Elbein, Gordon Tracey, Margaret Mead, Henry Truby, Michael Harner, Stanley Diamond, Jack Ferguson, Halim El Dab, Paul Moses, Godfrey Arnold, Elizabeth Waldo, and other scholars talk about their work and about aspects of Lomax's comparative research on performance styles in music, dance, and speech (Cantometrics, Choreometrics, and Parlametrics). Alan Lomax, Roswell Rudd, and Forrestine Paulay discuss the Urban Strain project, a study of American popular music in the 20th century.
Alan Lomax presenting Cantometrics at an unidentified conference.
There are interviews with Ewan MacColl, Jack Owens, Mabel Hillary, Bessie Jones, John Henry Faulk, Reverend Gary Davis, Lomax family members, and a radio interview with Alan Lomax about the Black Encyclopedia of the Air, a series of educational messages on black history and oral culture that he produced in 1966.