Alan Lomax and the Treorchy Dragons
In this article from July 2014, Michael Lydon tells the amazing story of legendary ethnographic archivist Alan Lomax and his encounter with the singing miners of Treorchy.
In a recent article for Wales Arts Review this reviewer paid homage to the late, great Pete Seeger, by utilising the image of Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’. In the article, it was remarked that an understanding of the grand narrative of twentieth-century American folk music can best be illustrated by adopting a table plan akin to that of Da Vinc…
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