OPTIONAL BOOK: Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World, Author: John Szwed ISBN-13 978-0143120735 December 2011. His legal studies include a course on copyright law through the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

He has worked with copyrights, patents, and trademarks throughout his career. INSTRUCTOR: Karl Hakkarainen is a retired software engineer and IT professional. JIf you’ve heard of Alan Lomax, the man who spent his life traveling around the world and documenting as much of it as he possibly could, you’ve likely heard mention of the idea of cultural equity.And that is what takes this out of the realm of the purely academic. FEATURES Alan Lomax’s Timeless American Recordings Find a New Audience By Allison Hussey

The work was physically demanding, legally complex, and emotionally exhausting, and we now have thousands of recordings, showing America to itself. What sets Lomax apart from many others making field recordings is his ability to coax a real performance from the singers or musicians, so they produce something special - and that often results in full songs rather than the fragments that tend to appear on other collections. Alan Lomax was struck by the trallalero singers of the port of Genoa and he was able to dedicate to them many hours of recording during the month of October. They recorded those who would be famous, such as Lead Belly, Muddy Waters, Woody Guthrie, and Jean Ritchie, and others who would stay nameless.

Dragging a disc recording machine weighing more than 300 pounds, Alan Lomax and his father, John, went to the plantations and juke joints of the American south, the hobo camps of the west, and the streets of Caribbean islands to collect the music and stories of the previously unknown.

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