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Film, Video Repatriating the Alan Lomax Haitian Recordings in Post-Quake Haiti

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Title

  • Repatriating the Alan Lomax Haitian Recordings in Post-Quake Haiti

Summary

  • Gage Averill discussed the significance of Alan and Elizabeth Lomax's collection and documentation of a wide variety of Haitian classical music, dance music and vodou music in 1936-1937, and related work by Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham and others. He discussed the process of repatriating the recordings following the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2017-03-15.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Government, World Affairs
  • -  recordings, media, music, Haiti

Notes

  • -  Classification: Fine Arts.
  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Gage Averill.
  • -  Recorded on 2017-03-15.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Publishers.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021690441

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Credit Line: Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Repatriating the Alan Lomax Haitian Recordings in Post-Quake Haiti. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-15, 2017. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690441/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2017) Repatriating the Alan Lomax Haitian Recordings in Post-Quake Haiti. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-15. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690441/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Repatriating the Alan Lomax Haitian Recordings in Post-Quake Haiti. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-15, 2017. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021690441/>.