Alan Lomax

American musicologist (1915–2002)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1915
Died: 2002
Works: 58

Top works

Hard hitting songs for hard-hit people
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
Phonotactique du chant populaire
Folk song style
Haitian diary

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Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an important American folklorist and musicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, the West Indies, Italy, and Spain. Lomax was son of pioneering musicologist and folklorist John Lomax, with whom he started his career by recording songs sung by prisoners in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alan+Lomax"