“feet don’t fail me now”

I’m finding more and more good stuff by Alan Lomax.

He founded the Association for Cultural Equity to “to facilitate cultural equity through cultural feedback.“ You can find much of his work (on film) at Folkstreams, a “National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures streamed with essays about the traditions and filmmaking.” For example, here’s a preview of a piece on “cathartic Sunday jazz parade of social clubs like King Zulu, the Young Olympians and the White Eagles in New Orleans”:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjDJFTTvukc[/youtube]

(the whole thing is streamable here)

Today’s postsong is hijacked audio from the above documentary.