Alan Lomax

United States
January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002

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Alan Lomax (/ˈloʊmæks/) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a musician himself, as well as a folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in preserving folk music traditions in both countries, and helped start both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John A. Lomax, and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song, of which he was the director, at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs.

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Au cours des 14 derniers jours:

11 musiques
4 stations
4 pays

Top chansons des Alan Lomax

1	The Wild Rippling Water
2	Tarantella napoletana
3	Introduction to "Three Friends' Advice"
4	Dialogue on the "Trinidadian Harp"
5	MacPherson's Lament
6	Introduction to "Man Smart, Woman Smarter"
7	Vlaskoto
8	A Raíz Dun Toxo Verde
9	Rattlesnake
10	A Raiz Dun Toxo Verde
11	Billy Barlow

Citations d'Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.