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VOICES OF THE PEOPLE
December 7, 1941
From 1937 to 1942, Alan Lomax was Assistant in Charge of the Archive of Folk Song of the Library of Congress. Himself a musician, Lomax recorded field interviews with many musicians, including Muddy Waters, Woody Guthrie, Peter Seeger and Lead Belly, introducing them and their music to a national audiences via his popular radio show. Using recording equipment he carried in the trunk of his car, Lomax made thousands of recordings. The project took a turn following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Lomax sent a telegram to his colleagues around the country asking them to collect "man on the street” interviews ([link removed]) . These recordings, now digitized at Library of Congress, feature the reactions of salesmen, electricians, janitors, oilmen, cabdrivers, housewives, students, soldiers, doctors and others to what FDR had labeled a “Day of Infamy.”
Listen: "Man-on-the-Street," Austin,Texas ([link removed])
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