Grammy-Winning Research In Folklife Archive, Musicians Find Inspiration

摘要

The Grammy Award goes to the Library of Congress, in a manner of speaking. Materials in the Library's American Folklife Center (AFC) repeatedly have been the inspiration for Grammy Award nominees and winners.Most recently, the 2011 Grammy Awards gave two nominations to Harte Recordings' "Alan Lomax in Haiti," a 10-CD box set chronicling Lomax's 1936 Haitian recording expedition for the Library of Congress. In addition, AFC recordings influenced the music of two of the acts honored.The Carolina Chocolate Drops, whose album "Genuine Negro Jig" won in the Traditional Folk category, previously have recorded selections they learned from the center's Archive of Folk Culture—band member Dom Flemons is a frequent visitor.