Field Recordings in Spain
Alan
Lomax (1915–2002)
Photographic contact sheet pasted
into notebook and annotated. Bormujo, Seville, Andalusia, Spain. 1952. [accompanying sound
recording: World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol. 4:
Spain. Rounder CD 11661 1744-2]
American Folklife Center
Purchase from the Estate of Alan Lomax
(222A.13)
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During the 1950s Alan Lomax lived and conducted extensive fieldwork
in Europe. His pioneering Spanish field recordings, made in 1952
during the Franco regime, constitute an invaluable historical document
of music from all over the country. Lomax often took photographs
of the same subjects he recorded. This contact sheet, from the
village of Brumojo, features the singer Anastasio Baque (second
row), whose fandango performance shows how the songs of Andalusia
live every day among its people, rather than as sung by one of
the great flamenco stars.
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