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Alan Jabbour was born on 21 June, 1942, is an American musician and folklorist. Discover Alan Jabbour's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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1942

Alan Jabbour (June 21, 1942 – January 13, 2017) was an American musician and folklorist, and the founding director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

Jabbour was born in Jacksonville, Florida.

His grandfather had immigrated to the United States from Syria, and his father later joined him.

1959

He was educated in the Jacksonville public schools and at the Bolles School, where he graduated from high school in 1959.

1960

Out of this interaction arose a band of young musicians, the Hollow Rock String Band, which became the core of the old-time music scene that blossomed in Durham and Chapel Hill in the later 1960s.

1963

He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Miami in 1963 and received his M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1968) from Duke University.

A violinist from the age of seven, Alan Jabbour was a member of the Jacksonville Symphony, the Brevard Music Festival Orchestra, the Miami Symphony, and the University of Miami String Quartet.

While a graduate student, he became interested in American fiddle styles and traveled in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia to record instrumental folk music, folksong, and folklore on tape.

This collection, particularly rich in traditional fiddle tunes from the Upper South, is now in the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress.

The documentation trips merged into a process of apprenticeship, and he began playing the fiddle under the influence of new masters, particularly Henry Reed, who was then in his eighties.

1968

In 1968, the year that Henry Reed died, the band released a long-playing record, The Hollow Rock String Band: Traditional Dance Tunes.

In 1968 Alan Jabbour became an assistant professor of English and folklore at the University of California, Los Angeles.

1969

In 1969 he was appointed head of the Archive of Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture) at the Library of Congress.

1971

He edited a long-playing record drawn from earlier recordings in the Archive, which was published in 1971 as American Fiddle Tunes.

1973

With Carl Fleischhauer, he undertook a three-year project to research, record, and photograph the history and traditions of a single Appalachian family, from which came the 1973 Library of Congress double record album The Hammons Family: A Study of a West Virginia Family's Traditions.

1974

In 1974 he moved to the National Endowment for the Arts to become founding director of that agency's grant-giving program in folk arts.

1976

In 1976 Alan Jabbour became the founding director of the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, continuing in that position for twenty-three years before stepping down from the directorship and retiring from federal service in 1999.

He has published widely on the subject of folklore and folklife, including a number of publications on American folksong and instrumental folk music.

He has also been featured on recordings and in numerous festivals, is a repeat presenter and performer at Breakin' Up Winter and concerts as a performer on the fiddle.

1987

He has served on numerous panels and boards, including the D.C. Humanities Council (co-chair, 1987–88), the American Folklore Society (president, 1988), the Fund for Folk Culture (chair, 1991–94), the National Coalition for Heritage Areas (1993–97), the European Center for Traditional Culture (1996–98), and the Alliance for American Quilts (1996- ).

2006

4.^"Alan Jabbour: Fiddler, Scholar, and Preserver of Tradition," Steve Goldfield, Fiddler Magazine, Summer 2006.

http://www.fiddle.com/_mndata/fiddle/uploaded_files/Sum06-pp14-20%20(Jabbour).pdf

2009

Chairman of the Board of International Arts & Artists from May 2009 until January 2017.

To mark his retirement, Alan Jabbour established the Henry Reed Fund for Folk Artists, named for his mentor and dedicated to projects in support of folk artists, especially those represented in the collections of the American Folklife Center.

2013

5.^"Alan Jabbour on Henry Reed and the Grand Old Virginia Repertory," Gus Garelick, Fiddler Magazine, Spring 2013, http://www.fiddle.com/_mndata/fiddle/uploaded_files/Spr13-pp4-11%20(Jabbour).pdf

2017

(Folklorist Peggy Bulger replaced him as AFC director in 1999.) He died on January 13, 2017, at the age of 74.