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John and Alan Lomax are largely responsible for keeping many of the rural oral traditions of folk music alive. The depth of their research and field recordings is almost immeasurable. It is fair to say, however, that the shape of American music from the 1960s forward is due in some part to the work of the Lomax family.
Field Work. The Field Work catalog comprises over 20,000 digitized assets, from John A. and Alan Lomax’s first recordings for the Library of Congress in 1933, through Alan's initial independent forays into newly invented reel-to-reel tape in 1946, and tracing the arc of his documentary involvements into the 1990s.
The Lomax Digital Archive (formerly the Online Alan Lomax Archive) provides free access to audio/visual collections compiled across seven decades by folklorist Alan Lomax (1915–2002) and his father John A. Lomax (1867–1948).
24 de nov. de 2005 · In the summer of 1941, a relatively unknown musicologist from Fisk University in Nashville accompanied the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax on a research trip to the American South. John...
The Lomax Digital Archive Collections contain several large audio, film, and photographic collections made, together and apart, by John and Alan Lomax, including Field Work, Film and Video, Radio Shows, and Alan Lomax as Performer.
As Curator and Assistant in Charge of the Folk Song Collection John and Alan Lomax supervised and worked with many other folklorists, musicologists, and composers, amateur and professional, all over the country, amassing more than ten thousand records of vocal and instrumental music on aluminum and acetate discs along with many pages ...
English. Online Format. image. online text. Part of. John Work Collection of Negro Folk Music from the Southeast (70) Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938 to 1943 (182) American Folklife Center (37,116) American Memory (515,549) Format. Manuscript/Mixed Material.
