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Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax was an American field collector of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John A. Lomax, and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song, of which he was the director, at the Library of Congress on aluminium and acetate discs.


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Born:
Jan 31, 1915 In Austin, Texas, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
5
First Appeared:
In the movie The Ballad of Ewan MacColl 1990-01-25
Latest Project:
Movie Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass 2012-06-19
Known For
Poster of Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass
Poster of Lomax the Songhunter
Poster of American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America
Poster of The Ballad of Ewan MacColl
Filmography
Movie Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass Self 2012-06-19
Movie Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home Archival Footage 2006-07-12
Movie Lomax the Songhunter Self (archive footage) 2004-11-22
Movie The Ballad of Ewan MacColl Self 1990-01-25
Series American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America Self - Host 1990-07-06