Alan Lomax
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 22 years ago |
Date of birth | January 31,1915 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Austin |
Texas | |
United States | |
Date of died | July 19,2002 |
Died | Safety Harbor |
Florida | |
United States | |
Albums | Cowboy Songs |
Negro Prison Songs from the Mississippi State Penitentiary Recorded by Alan Lomax | |
Parents | John Lomax |
Bess Bauman-Brown Lomax | |
Movies/Shows | Oss Oss Wee Oss |
The Land Where the Blues Began | |
Ballads, Blues, and Bluegrass | |
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack | |
Awards | National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction |
Grammy Trustees Award | |
Listen artist | www.youtube.com |
Spouse | Antoinette Marchand |
Elizabeth Lyttleton Harold | |
Children | Anna Lomax Wood |
Siblings | Bess Lomax Hawes |
John Lomax Jr. | |
Shirley Lomax | |
Grandchildren | Odysseus Chairetakis |
Books | land where the blues began |
Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and Inventor of Jazz | |
Skos genre | Folk |
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ID | 418444 |
Alan Lomax Life story
Alan Lomax was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. He was a musician himself, as well as a folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker.