Alan Lomax - Musicologist,researcher,author,educator producer (1915 - 2002) Musicologist, writer, and producer Alan Lomax spent over six decades working to promote knowledge and appreciation of the ...

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ALAN LOMAX: The Man Who Recorded the World, by John Szwed (438 pages, Viking, $29.95) In 1961, as a young graduate student at a meeting of ethnomusicologists, John Szwed caught the eye of the master: ...

NMAHMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents From Chisholm Trail to Harvard Yard -- Road scholars -- The saga of Lead Belly -- Travels with Zora Neale Hurston and ...

Alan Lomax was an American field collector of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and ...