found: AlanJabbour www.com; consulted 11/19/12:(Alan Jabbour; born 1942 in Jacksonville, FL, PhD in English, folklore, and ethnomusicology at UCLA, 1969, violinist, fiddler, folklorist, head of the Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress from 1969-74, director of the NEA Folk Arts Program from 1974-76, and director of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress from 1976-99)
found: Library of Congress. Gazette, Jan. 27, 2017, via WWW, viewed Jan. 27, 2017:p. 6 (Alan Jabbour, the founding director of the American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress, died Jan. 13; he was 74; born in 1942 in Jacksonville, Florida; graduated from the University of Miami in 1963 and received his master's degree and Ph.D. from Duke University; began playing the violin at age 7 and later performed as a member of the Jacksonville Symphony, the Brevard Music Festival Orchestra, the Miami Symphony and the University of Miami String Quartet; as a graduate student, he developed an interest in American fiddle styles; traveled around West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina, recording instrumental folk music, folksong and folklore; began work as an assistant professor of English and folklore at UCLA in 1968; the next year, he was named head of the Archive of Folk Song (now the American Folklife Center Archive) at the Library; in 1974, Jabbour was appointed founding director of the National Endowment for the Arts' grant-giving program in folk arts; two years later, he returned to the Library as the founding director of the AFC--a position in which he remained for 23 years, until he retired from federal service in 1999; published widely on the subject of folklore and folklife and also has been featured on recordings and in festivals and concerts as a fiddler)
