Alan Lomax (/ˈloʊmæks/; January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music...
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He was the father of Alan Lomax, John Lomax Jr. and Bess Lomax Hawes, also distinguished collectors of folk music. The Lomax family originally came...
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November of the same year she was staying in the London apartment of Alan Lomax. In preparation for a TV appearance, Jean Ritchie, Margaret Barry and...
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lyrics follow.) — Lomax, John A. and Alan Lomax, American Ballads and Folk Songs. (1934; reprint, New York: Dover, 1994), 60-1 John Lomax also interviewed...
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Solomon Linda (section Alan Lomax)
recording was discovered during the early 1950s by American musicologist Alan Lomax, who gave it to his friend, folk musician Pete Seeger of The Weavers....
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2011. Liner notes, Lomax Collection, Culturalequity.org Lomax, Alan; Hill, Rosa (1959-09-25). "Rolled and tumbled". Alan Lomax Collection. Martin, Terry...
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The House of the Rising Sun (category Alan Price songs)
suggesting that there is any direct relation. The folk song collector Alan Lomax suggested that the melody might be related to a 17th-century folk song...
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Angola Penitentiary during a 1933 visit by folklorists John Lomax and his son Alan Lomax. They were recording varieties of local music in the South as...
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ISBN 978-1-9821-2779-4. Field recordings Bill McBride in interview with Alan Lomax, "Dialogue on lumber camps and lumberjack ballads; Paul Bunyan discussion...
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bought by Columbia Records, where Hammond was employed. Musicologist Alan Lomax went to Mississippi in 1941 to record Johnson, also not knowing of his...
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