David Hajdu on Alan Lomax

David Hajdu recently wrote a controversial article for The New Republic about the legacy of Alan Lomax. Lomax and his father made field recordings of thousands of folk and blues songs including work by Leadbelly and Muddy Waters.  Hajdu says we owe Lomax an enormous debt for preserving the history of what became all of popular music, but feels Lomas was wrong to add his own name to the copyright.  We hear musical illustrations and excerpts of Lomax from his own field recordings.