The Alan Lomax Collection, which is part of the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, is releasing a box set of music from 1930s Haiti.
Alan Lomax made an impressive career out of recording folk music all over the world; bringing it to American audiences, and preserving it for posterity. But few people heard the recordings that Lomax made in Haiti in the 1930’s. This month (Nov 17th) those Haiti recordings will be released to the public for the first time in the form of a 10-CD box set.
via http://www.theworld.org/2009/11/02/global-hit-alan-lomax/
NPR covered this story as well.
Hartre Recordings is actually releasing the box set. They offer a sample.
Afropop Worldwide has a review.
And Alan Lomax facebook page, maintained by the Association for Cultural Equity.