Alan Lomax

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Alan Lomax was an American folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and field collector renowned for preserving and promoting traditional folk music from across the United States and around the world.

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instanceOf ethnomusicologist
field collector
folklorist
human
awardReceived National Book Critics Circle Award
surface form: National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

National Medal of Arts
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1915-01-31
dateOfDeath 2002-07-19
educatedAt University of Texas at Austin
employer BBC
Columbia Records
Library of Congress
familyName Lomax
father John Lomax
surface form: John A. Lomax
fieldOfWork ethnomusicology
folk music
folklore
fullName Alan Lomax self-link
gender male
givenName Alan
hasCollection Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center
hasInfluenced American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s
knownFor collecting blues music in the American South
recording Lead Belly
recording Muddy Waters
recording Woody Guthrie
recording folk music in Europe
recording folk music in the Caribbean
recording folk music in the Southern United States
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement American folk music revival
notableFor field recordings of American folk music
field recordings of world folk music
preservation of traditional folk music
notableWork Folk Song Style and Culture
Mister Jelly Roll
The Folk Songs of North America
The Land Where the Blues Began
occupation archivist
ethnomusicologist
folklorist
musicologist
radio producer
writer
placeOfBirth Austin, Texas, United States
placeOfDeath Safety Harbor, Florida
surface form: Safety Harbor, Florida, United States
residence London, England
surface form: London

New York City
sibling Bess Lomax Hawes
spouse Antoinette Marchand
Elizabeth Harold Goodman Lomax
Elizabeth Lyttleton Harold
workedOn Archive of American Folk Song

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Lead Belly collaboratedWith Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax fullName Alan Lomax self-link
In the Pines hasNotableCollector Alan Lomax