From the New York Times: A vast archive of music, photos and video collected by the ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax is being digitized and made available online.
From Me: You gotta be in a certain mood to listen to American folk music – it can be haunting – but Alan Lomax’s archive is pretty amazing from the few clips available here.
“Paula (Debra Winger) works as an operator in a call center. Zack (Richard Gere) comes to get her. He sweeps her off her feet, but he forgets about her earpiece cord, which catches on her office chair. He carries her to the emergency room to get stitches in her earlobe as the forgotten caller listens to a loop of on-hold music featuring “Up Where We Belong.”
