Alan Lomax

The Life of Ruth Crawford Ruth Crawford Seeger was born in Jacksonville, Florida where she grew up with her father until he passed away. Ruth began writing poetry at an early age and as a teenager had aspirations to become an "authoress or poetess". In 1914, Ruth went to Foster's School of Musical Art to study musical art by learning the piano. After she attended the Foster’s School of Musical Art, she began attending the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago to further her education by…

Why Suya Sing, a musical anthropology of an Amazonian people, is a book written by Anthony Seeger. Anthony Seeger is a professor, ethnomusicologist, archivist, anthropologist, and record producer. The title “Why Suya Sing” portrays the general idea of all ethnomusicologists, which is to further understand music in its cultural context (“What Is Ethnomusicology?”). Seeger is also the director emeritus of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. The author tackled field research for the book at Mato…

decade of the twentieth century, appeared on the scene in New York a new generation of young musicians that found in improvisation their key element of their music: the harpist Zeena Parkins, flutist Robert Dick, trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and guitarist Alan Licht. Others musicians like the pianist Uri Caine and trumpeter Dave Douglas explored the relationship between hard bop, free jazz and classical…

On December 7, 1941, America was surprised with a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese army. Americans were awestruck with the fact that their country had been attacked so violently. Never before had any generation on of Americans witnessed an attack like the one on Pearl Harbor. The attack which occurred on December 7, 1941, proved to Americans that their country was not invincible to attacks by a foreign nation, so can we consider Pearl Harbor one of the most important wars that…