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Donate to the ACE Online Archive

If you love the ACE Online Archive, please help us to maintain it, grow it, and improve it! Two new large collections are being made ready, and we would like to implement some of your suggestions, like adding playlists. Please consider a making a tax-free donation to help us realize these goals.

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A NEW FILM ON ITALIAN POLYPHONIC SINGING BY HUGO ZEMP

In the fall of 1954, Alan Lomax recorded several styles of remarkable polyphonic singing in the Genoa and in the Ligurian mountains north of San Remo. In the feature-length documentary, POLYPHONY OF CERIANA. THE COMPAGNIA SACCO,  ethnomusicologist and filmmaker Hugo Zemp brings the vocal polyphony of Ceriana vividly to life as he follows the Compagnia Sacco singing medieval ballads, love songs, and the occasional pop songin many contemporary contexts of village life.

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John Lomax III and Rocky Hill featured in Tennessean

John Lomax III is featured in an article about his new release of blues guitarist Rocky Hill (brother of ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill), perhaps the greatest guitarist you’ve never heard of.

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Ace Online Archive Goes Live

The Alan Lomax Archive and the Association for Cultural Equity is pleased to announce the launch of the ACE Online Archive – the fulfillment of over a decade of the restoration, digitization, and cataloging of Alan Lomax’s life’s work. The ACE Online Archive includes nearly 17,000 free full-streaming audio field-recordings, totaling over eight hundred hours, collected by Lomax between 1946 and 1991; scans of 5,000 photographic prints and negatives; sixteen hours of vintage radio transcriptions; and ninety hours of interviews, discussions, and lectures by Alan Lomax and his colleagues.

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