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Global Jukebox Project |
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Alan Lomax
was 81 years old in 1996 when he allowed us to produce the first
videotape demo of his life work, the Global Jukebox. Lomax is an
ethnomusicologist who spent six decades amassing one of the world's
largest collections of global music and dance. He also lead a team
which created a codification scheme for song and dance, allowing
cross-correlation of the data with each other and with pre-existing
ethnographic databases. When multimedia came into being in the late
1980s, Lomax said it is what he had been waiting for, and began
building the Global Jukebox. |
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