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| | lomax site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Working in the districts of Plaisance, Pont Beudet, Port-au-Prince, and Leogane, he recorded a wide variety of genres, including Voodoo, rada, peteo, zandor, kongo, rara, Mardi Gras, romance, konbit, and kont. |
 | | These recordings, along with detailed notes, drawings, text and log transcriptions, and 350 feet of 8 mm motion picture film, were deposited in the Library of Congress. |
 | | The Lomaxes and other collectors of their time and even much later found some of the most powerful vernacular music of the American South in the region's oppressive and violent prison system. |
| www.alan-lomax.com /about_fieldtrips.html (2543 words) |
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