Resilience of american musical culture in Eugene's jazz and bluegrass jam sessions
Introduction Alan Lomax, who is an important American anthropologist responsible for hundreds of thousands of folk recordings around the world, developed a special interest in the American folk music. When he started his professional life as an assistant in charge of the Folk life Division at the Library of Congress in 1932 with his father, an important folklorist who was responsible for the archive at that time, they were very connected with the idea of a national identity o