Alan Lomax : the man who recorded the world / John Szwed.
Szwed, John F., 1936-
2010
ML423.L6347 S98 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Alan Lomax : the man who recorded the world / John Szwed.
Author Szwed, John F., 1936-
ISBN 9780670021994
0670021997
Publication Details New York : Viking Penguin, 2010.
Language English
Description 438 p. : ill., port. ; 25 cm.
Call Number ML423.L6347 S98 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 781.620092 B
Summary Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the Library of Congress and by the late 1930s brought his discoveries to radio, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives. By the 1940s he was producing concerts that brought white and black performers together, and in the 1950s he set out to record the whole world. Lomax was also controversial. When he worked for the government he was tracked by the FBI, and when he worked in Britain, MI5 continued the surveillance. In his last years he turned to digital media and developed technologies that anticipated today's breakthroughs. Featuring a cast of characters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lead Belly, Carl Sagan to Bob Dylan, Szwed's biography provides an account of an era seen through the life of one extraordinary man.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The people's war
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The science of folk song
To hear the world in a grain of sand
The culture war
The global jukebox : "got the world in a jug, the stopper in my hand".

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