The Association for Cultural Equity (ACE), which was founded by musicologist and folk researcher Alan Lomax, is a valuable resource for those interested in folk history. Although you’ll have to visit the American Folklife Center in D.C. to gain access to all of Lomax’s materials, ACE houses an impressive amount of audio recordings, photographs, videos, lectures and original documents created by Alan Lomax online.
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Last night I attended a poetry reading the Kansas City Art Institute’s Crossroads Gallery, where they had an exhibition featuring works by the Borderland Collective. The works, created in collaboration between the International School of the Americas (ISA) and Borderland Collective during the 2015-2016 academic year, positions the México-US border region as a “cultural third space.”
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