Our Italian colleagues at Centro Studi Alan Lomax, located in Palermo, Sicily, are presenting a multimedia exhibition, Sicilia 1954: Il viaggio musicale di Alan Lomax e Diego Carpitella (Sicily 1954: The musical journey of Alan Lomax and Diego Carpitella).
We are pleased to announce that ACE has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $40,000. This grant will support digitizing, cataloging, and repatriating the 1935-39 Florida recordings made by Zora Neale Hurston and John and Alan Lomax, and hold workshops and a community scholar institute in the source communities. In total, the NEA will award 1,135 Grants for Arts Projects awards totaling more than $37 million as part of its second round of fiscal year 2024 grants.
The Association for Cultural Equity is excited to announce the appointment of Sarah Luisa Bryan as Executive Director of ACE, a role fulfilled so productively by the cultural visionary Anna Lomax Wood.
On November 2, 2022, PLOS ONE published the scientific paper, “The Global Jukebox: A Public Database of Performing Arts and Culture” by Drs. Anna L. Wood (the Association for Cultural Equity at Hunter College, NY), Patrick E. Savage (Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan) and 17 colleagues.
Anna Lomax Wood honored at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Tulsa, Oklahome on Oct. 15, 2022, where the Mediterranean Section of AFS sponsored a Tribute to Anna Lomax Wood. Joseph Sciorra (John D.
ACE researcher Michael Cormier-O’Leary explores the Global Jukebox, using the Cantometrics system to trace musical similarities between songs of Southeast Asia and the rest of the world.
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the Association for Cultural Equity, and the Charles Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Studies at Coastal Carolina University are pleased to announce that the entirety of John A. Lomax's historic South Carolina recordings—made between 1934 and 1940 under the aegis of the Library of Congress' Archive of Folk Song—are now freely available online via the Lomax Digital Archive. This collaboratively produced catalog* provides free access to more than 12 hours of historic audio, accompanied by extensive descriptive metadata, documenting a diversity of Black and white folk and vernacular music in the Palmetto State: spirituals, hymns, blues, lullabies, ballads, children's game songs, work songs, as well as stories and personal narratives. Only a fraction of these recordings have ever been published or otherwise made available publicly.
