A collection of Caribbean folk music recorded over four decades ago by American musicologist Alan Lomax was returned to the region earlier this month.(Brief article)

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A collection of Caribbean folk music recorded over four decades ago by American musicologist Alan Lomax was returned to the region earlier this month. Digital copies of about 60 hours of recordings, consisting of 3,000 songs and interviews made by Lomax in 1962, have been donated to a research center in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Adams Music Research Institute, a local division of the Chicago-based Ce...

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