Goffredo Plastino on Lomax in Italy May 5

Please 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, 1954-1955Newcastle 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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