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Anna Lomax Wood is the President of the Association for Cultural Equity (ACE), founded by her father, noted folk song collector and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax. When Alan Lomax was disabled by a stroke in 1996, she took responsibility for implementing his unfinished projects, most notably the production of the 100-CD Alan Lomax Collection on Rounder Records. When he died in 2002, she worked with the Library of Congress to preserve, restore, digitize and transfer Alan Lomax’s original recordings, photographs, and videos to the American Folklife Center of the LIbrary of Congress. She also curated the Grammy Award-winning and Grammy nominated boxed sets: Jelly Roll Morton and The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax (2005) and Alan Lomax in Haiti (2009).

Education and personal life
Anna Lomax Wood has a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Classics from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia, with a concentration on Mediterranean religion and disaster relief. From 197? to his death in 1992 she was married to Bill Chairetakis, a physicist from Crete. In 2003 she married Edmund R. Wood, a businessman. She has a son by her first marriage.

Biography
Wood was born Anne Lyttleton Lomax (see John Szwed) in New York City and grew up immersed in the folk music scene. While still in her teens she assisted her father's recording in the Caribbean. Later she helped him in his Cantometric and other research. She also worked as an assistant film editor for for Lionel Rogosin in his film Black Roots (1971) and on four films by independent filmmaker Les Blank.

In 1975, she began to work as a folklore activist with first- and second-generation Italian American communities. Along with Carla Bianco and Roberto Leydi, she was one of the first to explore the folk repertoires of this group. In 1979, she produced and annotated two path-breaking LP albums of Calabrian, Sicilian, and other regional Italian music recorded in New York State's Niagara region, New Jersey, and Rhode Island: ''In Mezz'una Strada Trovai una Pianta di Rosa. Italian Folk Music Collected in New York and New Jersey. Volume One: The Trentino, Molise, Campania (Avellino and salerno), Basilicata (Matera) and Sicily, plus "Trallalero" from Liguria and Caloqero Cascio; Calabria Bella Dove T'hai Lasciate? Italian Folk Music Collected in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island''. Volume Two: Calabria on the Global Village label. Four more albums of music by immigrants from other Italian regions were completed in the 1980s. She also produced a 30 minute film : L'Italia Vive Anche in America, "Italy Also Lives in America" (New York: RAI-TV, 1975). Her work with Italian immigrants, often in conjunction with the he Ethnic Folklore Society and the Smithsonian Institution's folklife festival, garnered her an award from the Italian government as Cavaliere della Republica. While doing fieldwork in the Campania region of Italy for her doctoral dissertation, she liased with cultural anthropologist Paulo Apolito of the University of Nts, working with Professor Apolito, the Center was able arrange to bring over outstanding traditional artists directly from Italy and also to get funding from the Italian government to compensate them for time lost from work. This resulted in a series of three consecutive annual tours of joint performances by Italian-American and South Italian traditional singers produced by the Ethnic Folk Arts Center in the Autumns of 1983, 84, and 85, and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, General Directorship for Emigration and Social Affairs of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, among other supporters. Concerts were held in multiple venues in the New York City and Long Island area; as well as in Lewiston, Binghamton, and Troy, New York; in Newark, New Jersey; in Middleton, Connecticut; in Memphis, Tennessee; and in Little Rock, Arkansas. Performers included artists from Campania, Calabria, Sicily, and Sardinia, singing and playing traditional instruments in a repertoire that had been a revelation to most central and northern Italians when first explored and recorded by Alan Lomax and others in the 1950s. As it was, the intense choral singing styles of Calabrian agricultural workers, the percussion orchestras of the Campania, and such traditional instruments as the chitarra battente, the Zampogna (bagpipes) and ciaramelle (an oboe-like wind instrument) were virtually unknown among second generation Italian Americans in this country, despite the fact that Italian-American songs had long been available on commercial recordings. For her efforts on behalf of Italian culture, Anna was named Cavaliere della Repubblica (Knight of the Republic) by the Italian government.

During the 1980s Anna continued to present Italian-American artists at Ethnic Folk Arts Center events, at the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival, and elsewhere, extending her research to the Greek-American community. Two immigrant families of traditional musicians that she worked with received NEA National Heritage Fellowship Awards: Giuseppe and Raffaela DeFranco from Belleville, New J, who perform with the group, Calabria Bella, in 1990, and the Greek-American bagpipe player, Nikitas Tsimouris, of Tarpon Springs, Florida, in 1991. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/09/anna-lomax-wood-uncovers-_n_711386.html Anna Lomax Wood Uncovers Haiti's lost music (VIDEO) 09/09/10 08:04