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John Work
from http://www.motherjones.com and http://www.nytimes.com: Two years ago, the book “Lost Delta Found” criticized the American folklorist Alan Lomax for giving short shrift to the work of three black...
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“Something Extramusical is Being Communicated Here”
by Amanda Petrusich (edited from http://www.oxfordamerican.org): In his film “Ballads, Blues, & Bluegrass,” Alan Lomax corners poor old Roscoe Holcomb, who’s just finished singing, and demands...
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Return to Coahoma County
excerpt from Nathan Salsburg (www.oxfordamerican.org): Alan Lomax visited Texas Island, Mississippi twice, once in 1941, and again in August 1942, toward the end of his second summer documenting black...
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Kentucky Repatriation
from http://www.culturalequity.org: 2014-2015 KENTUCKY REPATRIATION In the fall of 1937, Alan Lomax and his wife Elizabeth traveled throughout the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, documenting the...
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Lomax centennial box set
from http://www.pledgemusic.com/blog and http://www.broadwayworld.com: Over the course of 70 years, Alan Lomax was one of America’s finest treasures as an honored music archivist who collected tens of...
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LOMAX SITS BLIND WILLIE NEXT TO BEETHOVEN
from www.artslaboraustin.com: ALAN LOMAX SITS BLIND WILLIE NEXT TO BEETHOVEN ON A WONDROUS VOYAGE In 1977, astronomer Carl Sagan was chosen by NASA to head a team to select contents of a record to be...
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Treasures from the Archive Roadshow
from http://downhillstrugglers.blogspot.com: The Down Hill Strugglers are proud to be a part of the forthcoming “Treasures from the Archive Roadshow: Celebrating Alan Lomax & The Folk Music...
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Alan Lomax and the civil rights movement
from www.bbc.co.uk: Alan Lomax – Songs of Freedom To mark the centenary of the birth of folklorist Alan Lomax in 1915, Billy Bragg presents a new and original thesis. Billy argues that the legendary...
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Rediscovering Lomax in the Evangeline Country
from http://valcourrecords.com: During the last few decades of the twentieth century, it became fashionable in some circles to belittle the work of Alan and John Lomax. As is often the fate of...
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John Ciardi, Alan Lomax, Ga. Sea Island Singers
Singing starts at 2:17. A segment on the Georgia Sea Island Singers shot at St. Simons Island – featuring Bessie Jones, John Davis, Peter Davis, Willis Proctor, Mable Hillery, Emma Lee Ramsey, Joe...
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