Published Recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture
The best known publications from the Archive of Folk
Culture are the albums edited by Alan Lomax, B. A. Botkin, Duncan Emrich,
Frances Densmore, Willard Rhodes, Archie Green, Charles Seeger, and other folklorists,
issued by the Library of Congress beginning in 1941 under the series title
Folk Music of the United States. A second series, Folk Music of America, was
released at the time of the U.S. Bicentennial. The American Folklife Center and the Recorded
Sound Section of the Library collaborated with Rounder Records and Rykodisc
to re-issue many of the Center's recordings in compact disc format. Rycodisc recordings have been reissued on Smithsonian Folkways. In addition,
commercial recording companies have issued more than 100 recordings compiled from
the collections of the Archive.
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