Goffredo Plastino on Lomax in Italy May 5
Library of Congress sent this bulletin at 04/30/2015 11:52 AM EDTPlease Join us for the next lecture in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture Series
May 5, 2015
12 noon to 1 PM
Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building
Alan Lomax in Italy, 1954-1955, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.
Dr. Goffredo Plastino is a Reader in Ethnomusicology at Newcastle University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. The Chair of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, he is coeditor of the Routledge Global Popular Music Series, and served as editor for the Italian Treasury in the Alan Lomax Collection(Rounder Records), an annotated CD series culled from a previously unedited recordings collected in Italy by Lomax and Diego Carpitella between 1954 and 1955.
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