NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. The National Book Awards were established in 1936 by the American Booksellers Association, abandoned during World War II, and re-established by three book industry organizations in 1950. Non-U.S. authors and publishers were eligible for the pre-war awards. Now they are presented to U.S. authors for books published in the United States roughly during the award year. (More from Wikipedia)
Alan Lomax worked tirelessly for the preservation of music of all types until his death in 2001. He extensively chronicled traditional songs outside the US as well, leading to a 10-disc collection called Folk Songs of Great Britain (1961), as well as field work in Italy, Spain and the West Indies. Lomax hosted several radio programs, and television documentaries followed in later years. In 1993, Alan Lomax published The Land Where the Blues Began, which won a National Book Award. In 2012, the Alan Lomax Sound Archive became available online, offering some 17,000 recordings.
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