Alan Lomax, the celebrated folklorist and musicologist whose collections of thousands of recordings of folk, jazz and blues musicians since the 1930s helped preserve America’s and the world’s heritage ...

Jelly’s Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole, and “Inventor of Jazz” In 1938, Alan Lomax, a native of ...

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 ...

The lifework of the late legendary American folklorist Alan Lomax has been acquired by the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. "I think it's the jewel in the crown of the collections ...

When musicologist Alan Lomax was tromping around the rural South in the 1930s and 40s with his portable tape recorder, he wanted to capture songs that might never be heard again. Many of the thousands ...

During the early twentieth century, Alan Lomax and his father John traveled throughout the American South searching for the work songs, spirituals and folk tales that gave the region it’s unique ...

When the firetruck showed up at John Avery Lomax Jr.'s West University Place home, the flames out back were 30 feet high. This was in the 1950s. Lomax Jr. had collected discarded Christmas trees from ...

Work songs and blues recorded, edited and annotated by the editor. Program notes by the editor on container and text ([14] l.) inserted. Performer(s): Composed and performed by various Negro prisoners ...

The Southern Folklife Collection puts on a lot of cool events at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill every year, each surveying various aspects of traditional music. Few seem more perfectly ...

NEW YORK -- -- Alan Lomax, the celebrated musicologist who helped preserve America's and the world's heritage by making thousands of recordings of folk, blues and jazz musicians from the 1930s onward, ...