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1. archive.culturalequity.orgLomax Digital Archive

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   The Lomax Digital Archive (formerly the Online Alan Lomax Archive) provides free access to audio/visual collections compiled across seven decades by folklorist Alan Lomax (1915–2002) and his father John A. Lomax (1867–1948).

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     The Lomax Digital Archive Collections contain several large...

     Film and Video

     · Field Work

     · Alan Lomax as Performer

     · Discussions, Lectures & Interviews

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     Carnival in Trinidad. When Alan Lomax and the Tobagonion...

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     From the late 1930s through the 1950s, Alan Lomax wrote,...

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     · The V.D. Radio Project 1949

     · Hootenanny Of The Air

     · American Portraits

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2. archive.culturalequity.org › collections › field-workField Work | Lomax Digital Archive

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   Explore over 20,000 digitized assets of Alan Lomax's field work, from 1933 to 1990s, including music, stories, interviews, and photos. Find recordings of famous artists like Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan, as well as local performers from around the world.

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alan_LomaxAlan Lomax - Wikipedia

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   e. Alan Lomax ( / ˈloʊmæks /; January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. He was a musician, folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio ...

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5. folklife.si.edu › legacy-honorees › alan-lomaxAlan Lomax | Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural ...

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   Alan Lomax (1915-2002) was a major figure in folklore and ethnomusicology, known for his theoretical work, cultural advocacy, and seminal public programs. He played a key role in the development of the Center’s work. Pete Seeger described him as “the man who is more responsible than any other person for the twentieth-century folk song ...

6. www.loc.gov › collections › lomaxAbout this Collection | Lomax Collection | Digital ...

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   5 John A. Lomax to Harold Spivacke, May 12, 1939. About this Collection. The collection includes 400 snapshot photographs made in the course of sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax, between 1934 and ca. 1950 for the Archive of American Folk-Song. The photographs, which were transferred ...

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   What are the Lomax digital archive collections?

   • The Lomax Digital Archive Collections contain several large audio, film, and photographic collections made, together and apart, by John and Alan Lomax, including Field Work, Film and Video, Radio Shows, and Alan Lomax as Performer.

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   Does Alan Lomax have a recording archive?

   • Not a single piece of recorded sound in Lomax’s audio archive has been omitted: meaning that microphone checks, partial performances, and false starts are also included. In the early 1950s, Alan Lomax began to keep photographic journals of his field trips.

   Field Work | Lomax Digital Archive

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   Who was Alan Lomax?

   • Alan Lomax (1915-2002) was a major figure in folklore and ethnomusicology, known for his theoretical work, cultural advocacy, and seminal public programs. He played a key role in the development of the Center’s work. Pete Seeger described him as “the man who is more responsible than any other person for the twentieth-century folk song revival.”

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   How did Alan Lomax become a photographer?

   • In the early 1950s, Alan Lomax began to keep photographic journals of his field trips. Beginning with a few rolls taken in England and Scotland, he amassed many hundreds of photos on each of his subsequent major recording expeditions. Photography became for Lomax a serious vocation, and the camera far more than an adjunct to the recording machine.

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8. www.loc.gov › folklife › lomaxAlan Lomax - Alan Lomax Collection (The American Folklife ...

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   Alan Lomax Collection Alan Lomax. B orn in 1915, Alan Lomax began collecting folk music for the Library of Congress with his father at the age of 18. He continued his whole life in the pursuit of recording traditional cultures, believing that all cultures should be recorded and presented to the public.

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