Alan Lomax’s staggering assemblage of folklore materials goes digital at long last.
Long, long ago, when I was in college, I worked for Alan Lomax on an early incarnation of the Global Jukebox project, so it is a pleasure to see it going digital. I think the question remains about how, in digital form, to make this archival material more interactively robust, but it’s a delight to see it coming into print, sound, image, and online formats in breathtaking abundance: