““as if it were the equal of Western classical or art music. The recordings were given respect, thoughtful presentation, and technical attention that was all too rare for non-Western music. I had grown up on Folkways’s Nonesuch field recordings and the stuff Lomax had done for the Library of Congress, but the production values on the Ocora releases were on a whole other level. Eno and I realized that music from elsewhere didn’t need to sound distant, scratchy, or “primitive.” These recordings were as well produced as any contemporary recording in any genre. You were made to feel, for example, that this music wasn’t a ghostly remnant from some lost culture, soon””
![“Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.” quote by Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bfc/pete-seeger-1942_ancient_alan-lomax-and-his-father-started-off-ch_1485534.jpg)
