Dissemination Sites

Alan Lomax recording in Dominica, 1962. Photo by Antoinette Marchand.

The digital revolution makes it possible for libraries and archives to work together both to safeguard intangible cultural heritage and circulate it widely. As a practitioner of cultural equity, ACE returns Alan Lomax’s field recordings, photographs, film, and other materials to the places and peoples from which it came. Alan Lomax was a pioneer in the dissemination and repatriation of cultural documentation, having deposited copies of several of his large collections in national archives at a time when tape and disk media made it difficult and expensive, and he unfailingly sent recordings to colleagues in the field. ACE donates copies of materials to appropriate repositories pertaining to the regions from which they were taken. The ACE Online Archive offers free online dissemination through multimedia collections of Lomax's preserved field trips and other work.

Repatriation / Dissemination Sites

Original Materials:

The American Folklife Center of The Library of Congress, Washington, DC - originals of all of Alan Lomax’s manuscript and media collections, acquired in 2004 as the Alan Lomax Collection at the Library of Congress.

High quality digital copies and digital catalogs (photocopied notes & catalogs as required):

Alabama Center for Traditional Culture, Montgomery, AL - Alabama and Sacred Harp related field recordings (30 hours).

Archivio Sonoro della Canzone Napoletana della RAI, Naples, Italy (Neapolitan recordings)

Avery Research Center for African-American History and Culture, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC - Georgia Sea Islands and South Carolina field recordings (68 hours).

Blue Ridge Institute and Museum at Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA - all Appalachian field recordings from Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Kentucky (36 hours).

Blues Archive, University of Mississippi Library, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS - Mississippi Delta Region field recordings (47 hours).

Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College, Chicago - all Caribbean field recordings (60 hours).

The English Folk Dance and Song Society, London, England - British recordings (37 hours).

Folk Research Center, St. Lucia - St. Lucia field recordings.

Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA - New Orleans and jazz-related field recordings (26 hours).

Irish Traditional Music Archive, Dublin, Ireland - Irish field recordings (18.5 hours).

La Médiathèque Caraibe Bettino Lara, Général de Guadeloupe, Basse Terre, Guadeloupe - French Antilles field recordings (Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Barthelémy, Dominica).

Mediateca Comunale "Pasquale Creazzo", Cinquefrondi (Reggio Calabria), Italy, Cinquefrondi recordings and photographs(18.5 hours).

Nevis and St. Kitts Historical Society, Nevis – Nevis & St. Kitts field recordings.

The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, Scotland - Scottish field recordings (15 hours).

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library - complete African-American and Afro-Caribbean field recordings (375 hours).

The School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland – Scottish field recordings (15 hours).

Edith Garland Dupré Library, University of Southwest Louisiana, Lafayette, LA - Cajun folklife video recordings

Planned and Pending:

Berea College, Berea, Kentucky.

Blaxhall Archives, Town of Blaxhall, Suffolk, England (Ship Inn recordings).

Centro de Documentación Musical de Andalucia, Dirección General del Libro y del Patrimonio Bibliográfico y DocumentalGranada, Spain (Andalusian recordings).

Ibiza Museum of Culture, Ibiza (Islas Baleares), Spain (Ibiza, Formentera, Mallorca recordings).

Muséu del Pueblu d'Asturies, Gijón (Asturias), Spain (Asturias recordings).

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, NY (all audio and video recordings).

The Robinson Library at Newcastle University, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (all audio recordings).

University of the West Indies Main Library, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad & Tobago Recordings).

And sites as yet unidentified in Haiti, Grenada and Carriacou, Anguilla, Dominica, and Castile (Spain).