Lomax, Alan 1915-2002

Overview

Works:	2,053 works in 4,012 publications in 4 languages and 52,739 library holdings
Genres:	Music Notated music Discographies Folk music Criticism, interpretation, etc Poetry Songs and music Spirituals (Songs) Fiction Ballads
Roles:	Author, Editor, Compiler, Director, Recording engineer, Interviewer, Collector, Narrator, Originator, Performer, Photographer, Interviewee, Producer, Singer, Author of screenplay, Writer of accompanying material, Host, Other, chi, Composer, Production personnel, Commentator, Speaker, Arranger, Restager , Author of dialog, Author of introduction, 206, Lyricist, Librettist, Adapter, Vocalist, rcd, 665, Dedicatee, Scientific advisor, Contributor
Classifications:	M1629.L85, 784.4973

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax, assistant in charge : the Library of Congress letters, 1935-1945 by Alan Lomax( )
Alan Lomax : selected writings, 1934-1997 by Alan Lomax( )
Alan Lomax : the man who recorded the world by John F Szwed( Book )
The southern journey of Alan Lomax : words, photographs, and music by Alan Lomax( Recording )
Traditional music in coastal Louisiana : the 1934 Lomax recordings by Joshua Clegg Caffery( )

Folksongs of another America : field recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 by James P Leary( Book )
Lomax : the songhunter by Rogier Kappers( Visual )
The man who recorded the world : a biography of Alan Lomax by John F Szwed( Book )
America over the water by Shirley Collins( Book )
Alan Lomax : the man who recorded the world by John F Szwed( )
Lomax : collecteurs de folk songs by Frantz Duchazeau( Book )
White lies for Lomax : for orchestra by Mason Bates( )
Remembering Leadbelly by Long John Baldry( Recording )
Woodie Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song correspondence, 1940-1950( )
Reengaging blues narratives : Alan Lomax, Jelly Roll Morton, and W.C. Handy by Vic Hobson( )
Dance and human history( Visual )
Ride les blues : the Lomaxes in coastal Louisiana, 1934 by Joshua Clegg Caffery( Book )
Blues en balladen : Alan Lomax en Ate Doornbosch, twee muzikale veldwerkers by Louis Peter Grijp( Book )
LOMAX : collectors of folk songs by Frantz Duchazeau( Book )
Selected writings : 1934-1997 by Alan Lomax( Book )

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Most widely held works by Alan Lomax

The land where the blues began by Alan Lomax( Book )

62 editions published between 1982 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,211 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The bluesmen were the bards of America's last frontier, the rowdy Mississippi Delta, in the days of the cotton boom, of levee and railroad building. Alan Lomax takes us on an adventure into the "bad old days" of the Delta. Weaving together the tales of muleskinners and roustabouts, church matrons and convicts, children and blind street singers, Lomax gives us the rich, sorrow-ridden background of the blues. We meet Muddy Waters (the father of modern blues), learn how Robert Johnson met his end, and are introduced to Fred McDowell and Son House, who taught Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton how to play the blues. In pre-integration days, when Lomax, a Southerner, first began his research, custom forbade a white man to socialize or even shake hands with a black. Despite threats of jail and violence, Lomax broke through the veil of silence that up till the 1940s had concealed the life of blacks in the Deep South. For the first time the people in these lower depths told the story of their humiliation and exploitation - of the brutal work camps that wasted lives and of the monstrous state penitentiaries that devoured the rebellious. No blacks before them had dared to expose the cruelties of the post-Reconstruction Deep South, the time of broken promises and illegal repression. In 1941, Blind Sid Hemphill, drum major of the Hills, introduced Lomax to the African roots of the Mississippi music, whose performance style (in song, speech, music, dance) has survived virtually intact in American black folk communities. This powerful, joy-filled, nonverbal and oral tradition gave rise to spirituals, jazz, dance steps, humor, and other folkways that kept the hearts of blacks alive all through their time of travail. It is this river of African-American culture - swept along in a tide of bawdy tales, murder ballads, work songs, hollers, game songs, church shouts - that produced the blues, which now enchant the world

The folk songs of North America : in the English language by Alan Lomax( )

24 editions published between 1960 and 1975 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,206 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collection of 317 songs, including favorites such as John Henry, Shenandoah, Barbry Allen, Sweet Betsy, and the Old Chisholm trail, as well as lesser known, authentic chanteys, ballads, work songs, and spirituals; each with brief background note

American ballads and folk songs by John A Lomax( )

27 editions published between 1934 and 1994 in English and held by 1,996 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Discover the diversity, spontaneity, free-flowing melody and sheer invention of scores of songs sung by cowboys and convicts, lumberjacks, hobos, miners, plantation slaves, and more

3000 years of black poetry : an anthology by Alan Lomax( Book )

19 editions published between 1970 and 1984 in English and held by 1,710 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Includes roots of black poetry in Africa, from primitive song, and extends to Egypt, Latin America, the West Indies, and the rural and urban streets of our country. The poetry of black Africa speaks directly to us over time and distance

Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads by John A Lomax( Book )

38 editions published between 1938 and 1986 in English and held by 1,384 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

More than two hundred songs, some with music, whose lyrics depict life in the old West

Folk song: U.S.A. : the 111 best American ballads by John A Lomax( )

32 editions published between 1947 and 1975 in 3 languages and held by 1,117 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Folk song style and culture by Alan Lomax( Book )

28 editions published between 1968 and 2009 in English and held by 1,094 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hard hitting songs for hard-hit people : [American folk songs of the Depression and the labor movement of the 1930's] by Alan Lomax( )

16 editions published between 1967 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 803 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American ballads and folk songs by John A Lomax( Book )

47 editions published between 1924 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 598 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Ten Thousand Miles from Home, Shack Bully Holler, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Bad Man Ballad, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Bear in the Hill, Shortenin' Bread, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more

Our singing country : a second volume of American ballads and folk songs by John A Lomax( )

5 editions published between 1941 and 2007 in English and held by 584 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The folk songs of North America : in the English language by Alan Lomax( Book )

31 editions published between 1960 and 1975 in English and Undetermined and held by 570 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Words, music, and origins of over 300 folksongs, with easy and playable piano, guitar, and banjo arrangements

Mister Jelly Roll : the fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and inventor of jazz by Alan Lomax( Book )

11 editions published in 1973 in English and Undetermined and held by 555 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mister Jelly Roll : the fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "inventor of jazz." by Alan Lomax( Book )

13 editions published in 1950 in English and held by 529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The roots of the blues by Alan Lomax( Recording )

17 editions published between 1960 and 1981 in English and Undetermined and held by 498 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Penguin book of American folk songs by Alan Lomax( )

23 editions published between 1964 and 1974 in English and held by 482 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Best loved American folk songs : (Folk song: U.S.A.) by John A Lomax( )

12 editions published between 1947 and 1954 in English and held by 474 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Complete folksong arrangements : 61 songs by Benjamin Britten( )

8 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 465 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

White spirituals from the sacred harp by B. F White( Recording )

1 edition published in 1977 in English and held by 437 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

White spirituals from the Sacred harp : the Alabama Sacred Harp Convention by B. F White( Recording )

17 editions published between 1977 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 379 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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Afro-American spirituals, work songs, and ballads by Alan Lomax( Recording )

21 editions published between 1942 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 365 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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