Alan Lomax

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Alan Lomax som spelar gitar. Bildet vart tatt mellom 1938 og 1950
Alan Lomax som spelar gitar. Bildet vart tatt mellom 1938 og 1950

Alan Lomax (31. januar, 191519. juli, 2002) var ein sentral amerikansk folklorist and musikolog. Han var ein av dei store innsamlarane av folkemusikk på 1900-talet, og gjorde tusenvis av opptak av tradisjonell song og musikk i USA, Storbritannia, Dei vest-indiske øyene, Italia og Spania


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[endre] Biografi

Lomax var son av den banebrytande musikologen og folkloristen John Lomax, og starta karrieren som innsamlar gjennom å arbeide for faren med å spele inn songar framførde av fengselsfangar i Texas, USA, Louisiana, og Mississippi. Han studerte filosofi ved [University of Texas at Austin]], og arbeida for Library of Congress med eit prosjekt om munnleg historie. For enkelte er han mest kjend for teorien sin om cantometrics.

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Lomax assembled a highly regarded treasure trove of American and international culture, spending a lifetime collecting folk music from around the world, particularly from the American South. He recorded substantial interviews with many musicians, including Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Muddy Waters, Jelly Roll Morton, and Jeannie Robertson, and he produced radio shows, had a regular television series, and played an important role in both the American folk music revival and British folk revival of the 1950s.

He recorded Irish traditional musicians including some of the songs in English and Irish of Elizabeth Cronin in 1951.

His survey of Italian folk music with Diego Carpitella, conducted in 1953 and 1954, helped capture a snapshot of a multitude of important traditional folk styles shortly before they disappeared. The pair amassed one of the most representative folk song collections of any culture. From Lomax's Spanish and Italian recordings emerged one of the first theories explaining the types of folk singing that emerge in particular areas, a theory that incorporates work style, the environment, and the degrees of social and sexual freedom.

In 1944 Alan Lomax took part in a Ballad opera called "The Martins and the Coys". It was recorded by the BBC and CBS and features contributions by Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. It was released on Rounder Records in 2000.

[endre] Achievements

Lomax won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award in 1993 for his book The Land Where the Blues Began, the story of the origins of Blues music. Lomax also received a posthumous Grammy Trustees Award for his lifetime achievements in 2003.

[endre] Trivia

  • A character named Alan Lomax was featured in the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.
  • Lomax's works and collected songs are heavily sampled on Moby's breakthrough album, Play.
  • In 2006 the scholar and jazz pianist Ted Goia accidentally uncovered Alan Lomax's FBI file. He was repeatedly investigated by the FBI but never found guilty of anything.

Reference: http://forum.coa.edu/tool/post/whosarat/vpost?id=1076025

[endre] Bibliography

His books include

  • Selected Writings 1934-1997 (2003) (This includes a chapter defining all the categories of cantometrics.)
  • The Land Where The Blues Began (1993)
  • Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" (1973)
  • Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads (edited with John Lomax, re-printed 2000)
  • Penguin Book of American Folk Songs (1968)

[endre] References

  • "Lomax, Alan" obituary in Current Biography, 2002.
  • Alan Lomax: Mirades Miradas Glances Photos by Alan Lomax, ed. by Antoni Pizà (Barcelona: Lunwerg / Fundacio Sa Nostra, 2006) ISBN 84-9785-271-0

[endre] See also

  • John Lomax III

[endre] External links