John Lomax

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John Lomax was an influential American folklorist and musicologist known for collecting and preserving traditional folk and blues songs, including the work of artists like Lead Belly.

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John A. Lomax 1
Alan Lomax 0

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Predicate Object
instanceOf folklorist
folklorist
human
musicologist
song collector
activityPeriod 1930s
early 20th century
collaboratedWith Alan Lomax NERFINISHED
collectedFrom Lead Belly NERFINISHED
ranch workers and cowboys in the American West
various prison inmates in the American South
contributedTo Archive of American Folk Song NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
employer Library of Congress NERFINISHED
University of Texas at Austin NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork American folk music
blues music
ethnomusicology
folklore
genreCollected ballads
blues
cowboy songs
prison songs
spirituals
work songs
hasRelative Alan Lomax NERFINISHED
influenced Alan Lomax NERFINISHED
American folk music revival NERFINISHED
knownFor collecting blues songs
collecting traditional American folk songs
field recordings of folk musicians
work with Lead Belly
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf American Folklore Society NERFINISHED
name John Avery Lomax NERFINISHED
nationality American
notableStudentOrProtégé Lead Belly NERFINISHED
notableWork American Ballads and Folk Songs NERFINISHED
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads NERFINISHED
Our Singing Country NERFINISHED
occupation educator
folklorist
musicologist
placeOfBirth near Meridian, Mississippi, United States
placeOfDeath Greenville, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED
positionHeld curator of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress
recordingMethod field recordings on disc recorders

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Lead Belly collaboratedWith John Lomax
Alan Lomax father John Lomax
this entity surface form: John A. Lomax